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Every U.S. Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday. CBC | World News
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Fearing ICE, some students in Minneapolis retreat to virtual learning
In some classrooms in the Twin Cities, more than half of the desks sit empty. The children of immigrants are increasingly absent from school, sports teams and even front yards, fearful that immigration and customs agents will detain them, or their parents, because of the colour of their skin. CBC | World News
Read More »Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after protest inside Minneapolis church
Journalist Don Lemon was arrested in connection with an anti-immigration protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, his lawyer said Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »Bruce Springsteen criticizes ICE, Trump in protest song Streets of Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city. CBC | World News
Read More »5-year-old detained in Minneapolis last week still in Texas detention facility with his father
Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE. CBC | World News
Read More »2 federal agents involved in shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on leave
Two federal agents who were involved in Saturday’s fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson. CBC | World News
Read More »2 federal agents fired shots when Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis: U.S. official
Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notice sent Tuesday. CBC | World News
Read More »Why Minneapolis has become such a flashpoint amid ICE deployments
The Trump administration has deployed federal troops to several U.S. cities in the past year — mostly Democrat-led, mostly under the guise of unsubstantiated claims that illegal immigrants are terrorizing those cities with crime. But Minneapolis has seen the largest troop deployment and the worst violence. CBC | World News
Read More »Bovino to leave Minneapolis as Trump reshuffles leadership of his immigration crackdown
U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting by federal officers. CBC | World News
Read More »Obamas say Trump administration seems ‘eager to escalate’ situation in Minneapolis
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