Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR News reporters, Sam Stroozas, realized she lived just blocks away. Photo by Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images
Twin Cities bookstores are responding to heightened fear around ICE activity by transforming their shops into hubs for community support, political understanding and emotional refuge, as readers turn to books, children’s resources, and author fundraisers to navigate a climate of anxiety and resistance.
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with federal agents.
Latino Minnesotans hosted dance parties and played Bad Bunny music before the Puerto Rican artists’ highly anticipated and politically controversial Superbowl halftime show on Sunday. Some say they appreciate Bad Bunny for using his platform to criticize recent ICE actions, and he gives them hope in a trying time.
Almost 40 athletes who are heading to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic and Paralympic games have connections to Minnesota. Whether they call this state home or just train or play sports here, here’s your chance to learn about the Minnesota ties at the Milano Cortina Games.
Minnesota is at the center of a federal ICE operation and some people are responding as protesters, volunteers or legal observers. Coming up at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Catharine Richert and her guests talk about what the tactics reveal about the future of protests.
A federal judge admonished DHS for repeatedly defying court orders to release detainees, as government lawyers described widespread noncompliance during Minnesota’s immigration crackdown.
Jingle dress dancers gathered at the sites where Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti were killed to offer prayer, healing and solidarity through ceremony, drawing hundreds of people in south Minneapolis amid ongoing federal immigration operations.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar entered the race for governor, giving Democrats a big-name candidate as Gov. Tim Walz moves aside.
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. Lawyers say the practice allows ICE to evade the law.