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.
MPR News host Catharine Richert explores the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in special programming tonight at 8 p.m. with two guests who bring distinct perspectives to the conversation. Sharon McMahon, a former high school civics teacher known for her "Sharon Says So" platform, has built a following explaining how government works in plain language. Attorney Dillon White, co-host of Dadchats, brings legal expertise on immigration enforcement and constitutional rights.
Tom Homan, a White House adviser to President Donald Trump on immigration and border control issues, is the new face of the administration’s Minnesota deportation campaign.
Alex Pretti, 37, a U.S. citizen who worked for the Veterans Administration, was shot and killed by federal immigration agents Saturday. People who knew him were stunned.
People who saw federal agents detain 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Columbia Heights pushed back against claims by ICE and Vice President JD Vance that the child was abandoned, saying neighbors and school officials begged agents to let the child enter the home to join his mother or be released to the school.
The recent surge in federal law enforcement activity is increasingly affecting school children across the state. Some schools are offering online learning to students to afraid to go to school, while others see soaring absenteeism.