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      Minnesota leaders decry targeting by US justice department over ICE turmoil

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      Governor Tim Walz says ‘weaponizing the justice system is an authoritarian tactic’ as he and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey reportedly will be subpoenaedThe US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports.The investigation, which CBS News first reported, marks an extraordinary use of federal power to challenge two of the crackdown’s most vocal Democratic critics, including the state’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey. Continue reading… More

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      Judge issues injunction to curb federal agents’ tactics against protesters in Minnesota – as it happened

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      This live blog is now closed.US justice agency to inquire into Minnesota leaders for alleged conspiracy to obstruct ICEIncident reports provide details of emergency response after fatal ICE shooting in MinneapolisTrump began his remarks today by undermining the Affordable Care Act, and touted his newly unveiled “Great Healthcare Plan”.A reminder that Affordable Care Act subsidies, that were extended during the Covid pandemic, expired at the end of last year, and legislation to revive them has stalled in Congress. Continue reading… More

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      US judge gives Trump administration three weeks to return deported student

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      Lawyer for administration had apologized earlier for violating court order and admitted ‘mistake’A US federal judge in Boston on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to “rectify the mistake” it made by deporting a college student to Honduras while she was traveling home to visit her family for Thanksgiving as he recommended it issue her a student visa.The US district judge, Richard Stearns, imposed the deadline after a lawyer for the administration earlier this week apologized for having violated a court order that should have prevented 19-year-old Any Lucia López Belloza from being sent to Honduras. She is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was eight while seeking asylum. Continue reading… More

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      They couldn’t ‘Abolish ICE’ in Trump’s first term. Now more Americans are taking up the call

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      To longtime immigrant rights activists, the reckoning around the fatal shooting in Minnesota may feel familiarUS citizens and permanent residents: have you been racially profiled by ICE?As mass protests erupted over the past week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Nicole Good, thousands of Americans hoisted signs and marched to thunderous chants of “abolish ICE”.The mantra has quickly captured the bursting anger and grief of a nation; activists and progressive lawmakers like the representative Ayanna Pressley, and even the conservative commentator Bill Kristol have embraced the demand. Shri Thanedar, a Democratic representative from Michigan, said he planned to introduce the “Abolish ICE act”, a bill that would dismantle the federal agency and its current enforcement authority. For the first time, more US adults now support eliminating ICE than those who oppose it, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll. Continue reading… More

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      ‘I couldn’t save my husband’: the Minnesota families ripped apart by ICE

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      Family members left stunned and bereft after their loved ones were spirited away by federal immigration agentsPeople in Minneapolis and St Paul: what is life like in the Twin Cities right now?Paulo Sosa Garcia and Ramona Cecilia Silva were heading to work in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, on Monday morning when federal immigration agents pulled them over and arrested them. By the next morning, they were detained in El Paso, Texas.Tomas Martinez Gregorio was driving his wife, Daisy Martinez, and their six-year-old son, Jayren, to a hospital in Brooklyn Park when federal agents pulled them over and took Gregorio. Jayren never made it to his tonsillectomy appointment. Continue reading… More

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      Three US citizens sue Trump with the ACLU over encounters with ICE agents – as it happened

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      This live blog is now closed.Trump news at a glance: The medal may be in Trump’s hands, but peace prize is not his, Nobel officials sayDonald Trump is in Washington today. He’s due to meet with Mariá Corina Machado – Venezuela’s opposition leader – at 12:3opm ET. At the moment that’s closed to the press but we’ll let you know if that changes and bring you the latest.Later, Trump is set to host the champions of the 2025 Stanley Cup, the Florida Panthers, at the White House. We’ll be watching to get his reaction to the news of the day. Continue reading… More

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      Seth Meyers on ICE: ‘An army of out-of-shape uncles’

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      Late-night hosts discussed the bare minimum standards for new ICE recruits wreaking havoc in US communitiesLate-night hosts talked cratering public opinion on the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in US communities and the president’s apparent preference for whole milk. Continue reading… More