US EditionAs Immigration Agents Police Minneapolis Protests, Experts Warn of Training Gaps and the Rising Risk
- On Sunday, protesters stormed Cities Church in St Paul, chanting `ICE out` and interrupting services, as independent journalist Don Lemon livestreamed their entry.
- Amid calls for justice for Renee Nicole Good, protesters pressed for ICE to leave, targeting the church because David Easterwood is acting director of ICE's St Paul field office.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social claiming protesters were `paid professionals` and called them `agitators and insurrectionists`, urging jail or deportation and attacking Representative Ilhan Omar, U.S. Representative, as `supposedly worth over $30 Million`.
- The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is investigating potential FACE Act violations, while Alina Habba vowed the DOJ would `come down hard` and probe protest funding and local officials like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
- Celebrity reactions, including Nicki Minaj's demands, amplified the dispute as conservatives called for DOJ and FBI probes into Don Lemon, with Benny Johnson alleging a FACE Act violation and hate crime.
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Usa newsChicagoans send 150,000 whistles to cities besieged by federal immigration agents
When federal agents arrived in Minneapolis, Chicagoans Emily Hilleren and Lauren Vega kept doing what they had been doing for months: getting their hands on as many whistles as they could find.They assembled care package containing 5,000 whistles, zines with illustrated instructions on how to use the whistles to warn neighbors of the presence of ICE, 10,000 know-your-rights cards and $9,000 in donations for community organizations in Minneapolis…
Winnipeg mayor laments 'chaos' south of border, offers support to Minneapolis counterpart
Mayor Scott Gillingham says he wants to see peace return to the streets of Winnipeg's sister city Minneapolis, where the deployment of armed U.S. immigration agents has led to mass demonstrations and allegations of civil rights abuses, including the shooting death of Renee Good on Jan. 7.
How ICE became Trump’s very own paramilitary force
Over the last few weeks, Minneapolis has looked like a city under siege. The Trump administration has sent roughly 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota in what Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has called the “largest immigration operation ever.” This comes as protests have spread around Minneapolis and across the country demanding that ICE leave Minnesota and other states following the death of Renée Good, a 37-ye…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As confrontations with federal agents over their large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota continued Wednesday, legal battles over the deployment and local response were also escalating. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday served grand jury subpoenas to the office of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and five other state officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstr…
DHS says ICE agents rammed by vehicles amid Minneapolis enforcement surge: ‘Aggressively assaulted’
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal immigration officials said Tuesday that Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have faced escalating violence in Minneapolis, including vehicle ramming incidents as recently as “today” and “yesterday,” during a major enforcement operation targeting criminal illegal aliens in the Twin Cities. “I believe we had a vehicle ramming today. We had one yesterday,” said Greg Bovino,…
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