Immigration Enforcement

Supreme Court Cases Support ICE Surveillance Here and Elsewhere

From Vietnam to the Twin Cities - The 50-Year Legal Legacy Behind ICE’s Surveillance Tactics. ICE agents have yet to be deployed at the Twin Cities International Airport during the...

When Washington and the states are in conflict, the ultimate winner is not always certain

By Kenneth Michael White The Trump administration’s aggressive policies on immigration are receiving pushback not just on Capitol Hill but...

Counterpoint: Ensuring the rule of law Includes ICE

By Larry Etkin A recent commentary in the Sunday Minnesota Star Tribune by Crosslake, Minnesota mayor Jackson Purfeerst took...

The Siege of Cities Church: DOJ Deploys Federal Conspiracy Charges Against 39

The federal government has officially moved beyond local trespassing charges in the St. Paul "Cities Church" incident, pivoting...

Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a long tradition of mutual aid

By Daniel Cueto-Villalobos I’ve been living in Minneapolis and working on my doctoral dissertation about local religious communities since 2019. It’s given...

St. Paul Parishioner Sues Activists, Don Lemon Over ‘Traumatic’ Anti-ICE Church Disruption

A long-standing member of a St. Paul congregation has filed a civil lawsuit against a group of activists and high-profile media figures, alleging that...

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

By Richard F. Hamm As the actions of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come under intense scrutiny, it’s worth noting that a little more than 100...

The Untouchables? Why Federal Agents Are Harder to Sue—And How MN Might Change That

From the shadow of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act to modern-day immunity doctrines, Minnesota is at the center of a high-stakes battle over...

Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970

By Gregory P. Magarian The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill...

ICE Report from the Neighborhood

On the day Alex Pretti was murdered, I was attending a women’s retreat along with fellow members of our church. The subject of Mary...

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