Minnesota Now: Feb. 24, 2026
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A former ICE lawyer says the agency is allowing hundreds of new agents into the field poorly trained. The whistleblower resigned in February and he told Democrats in Congress that what agents are not learning at the academy poses a danger to the public.
Deportations of Hmong and Lao people spiked last year, according to groups working with Southeast Asian communities in Minnesota. We heard more from one of the organizations behind a new effort to help Southeast Asian Minnesotans navigate deportations and detentions.
Plus, how boosters of the new "Bear Larp" business district aim to revitalize the greater east side of St. Paul.
And two brothers from Minneapolis are out with a new film about a fellow Minnesotan: cross-country skiing icon Jessie Diggins.
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