US EditionPolice arrest protesters at airport as Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest
Clergy-led protests at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport resulted in about 100 arrests during a statewide action against ICE enforcement and Operation Metro Surge.
- On Friday, police arrested about 100 clergy outside Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport while several thousand rallied in downtown Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
- The protests stem from a broader movement against President Donald Trump's enforcement surge, with daily demonstrations since Jan. 7 after 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good was fatally shot.
- Protesters marched about a mile through downtown Minneapolis to the indoor basketball arena despite minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit, with Sam Nelson skipping work to join the rally.
- Organizers reported more than 700 businesses statewide closed in solidarity with the movement, part of a general strike and walkout backed by labor leaders and faith groups, and schools in the area also closed.
- Rising public scrutiny surrounds enforcement as the Department of Homeland Security showed no signs of easing its surge in the Twin Cities, while an FBI supervisory agent in Minnesota resigned over the Justice Department's handling of the Renee Good investigation.
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Protesters arrested at Minnesota airport
MINNEAPOLIS — Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota's largest airport Friday, and thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration's crackdown.
In the United States, Thousands of Protesters March in Minneapolis to Protest the Immigration Police
One hundred clergymen were arrested during a rally at Minneapolis airport on Friday, according to a pastor present on the spot.
Waves of Minneapolis residents filled the icy city blocks and crowded the Timberwolves NBA stadium on Friday to demand that ICE leave their neighborhoods, even when the immigration official who orchestrates...
Despite the cold and temperatures below 20 degrees, opponents of the anti-migrant operations in Minnesota mobilized en masse yesterday as the American authorities tried to appease the indignation aroused by the arrest of a 5-year-old by the immigration police (Ice). Thousands of people gathered in the early afternoon in the center of Minneapolis, the largest city in the State of Minnesota, to ask for the abolition of the Ice and to leave our nei…
Members of the clergy were arrested at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport during a demonstration against the strict immigration of the Trump administration
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