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Most Minnesota school districts have canceled classes or moved to online learning Friday amid the dangerously cold conditions across the state. Meanwhile, numerous businesses across Minnesota will take part in a statewide action against federal immigration enforcement Friday. Organizers called on Minnesotans to stop work, school and shopping for the day to create an economic blackout.
Vice President JD Vance met with local leaders and ICE personnel in Minneapolis today and says more cooperation could calm tensions. Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis may continue indefinitely, according to Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who spoke at a press conference today.
Federal immigration authorities are asserting power to enter private property without a judge’s permission in clear violation of the Constitution. Meanwhile, extreme cold warnings are already in effect for parts of northwest and north central Minnesota and will be in effect statewide by Thursday night.
A federal appeals court today put a temporary hold on a judge's order in a case challenging the actions of immigration authorities in Minnesota. President Donald Trump railed against Minnesota in front of a global audience today over local resistance to his ongoing deportation campaign.
The Trump administration claims at least 3,000 people have been arrested in the ongoing ICE operation in Minnesota. Critics of the operation note that people with no criminal record and some U.S. citizens have been detained, arrested or otherwise swept up by federal agents.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's office confirmed to MPR News that the mayor's office received a subpoena from the Department of Justice today. Attorney General Keith Ellison told MPR News that he remains critical of the ICE operation. Ellison has sued the Trump administration for many actions over the past year, including the current ICE operation.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez late last week ordered agents involved in the immigration crackdown in Minnesota to not detain or arrest protesters or observers, unless there’s reasonable suspicion or probable cause of a crime.
Here’s the latest news on Thursday around the increased federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
A Minneapolis man is out of jail days after masked federal agents illegally broke down his door and arrested him. On Sunday morning, agents carrying a battering ram but no judicial warrant smashed through Garrison Gibson’s front door in north Minneapolis.
A federal agent shot a man in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. It’s the second shooting in the city by a federal agent, one week after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good.