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Immigrant-owned businesses across the state are closing or reducing their hours because staff members, even those who are in the U.S. legally, are worried about being profiled and detained by federal ICE and CBP agents.
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned about their patients.
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some schools with families fearing being caught up in ICE operations.
Thousands of people gathered in frigid temperatures on Saturday afternoon to protest ICE and the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
This was the week that shook Minnesota. Scars from a summer political assassination got ripped open. Minnesota’s governor retreated from his reelection campaign while voicing concern over a crush of federal actions. Sprawling frustrations over fraud drew a congressional spotlight. Then an immigration enforcement push took a deadly turn in Minneapolis. How to make sense of it all?
On Wednesday, Minnesota found itself again at the center of tense tragedy, struggling for answers with a national and global audience looking on.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.
ICE says a woman killed by one of their agents Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis was attempting to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz challenged that narrative. As he pleaded for peace, Walz said he’s issued a “warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard” for possible action.
Reaction to the governor’s decision to end his campaign for a third term ranged from sadness and disappointment among his supporters, to support for the move in the wake of the state’s growing fraud problem.