Social Issues

DHS demands Minnesota counties and cities review, revise ‘sanctuary’ policies
Minneapolis and St. Paul city leaders have pushed back against the Trump Administration’s attempts to get them to use local police to enforce federal immigration law. And they say “sanctuary” policies foster greater public safety.
Many Minneapolis residents near Derek Chauvin‘s old precinct don't trust police. Cops say they are working on it
While the police department works to make court-mandated changes and replenish its ranks with new hires, neighbors anxiously await transformation. But that task is a steeper climb in the 3rd Precinct, where George Floyd was murdered, turning the neighborhood into an epicenter of unrest.
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school. It says thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. 
U of M grad student released from ICE custody after judge's ruling
Doğukan Günaydın had been held in the Sherburne County Jail after being arrested by immigration authorities. A federal judge ruled this week that his detention violated his procedural due process rights. He was released Thursday.
Horse racing industry braces for crackdown on illegal immigration
Horse racing depends on thousands of workers without legal status, and industry leaders fear that Trump’s soft touch toward the industry in his first term will not persist in his second.
Twin Cities international students beat DHS in federal court
Following lawsuits, the Department of Homeland Security restored records in the government’s Student Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, for Rattanand Ratsantiboon and Ziliang Jin.
Despite court rulings in his favor, U of M student still fighting for freedom from ICE custody
“I keep winning in the courts, but I am still detained,” says Doğukan Günaydın, in a newly filed document in his lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, which has appealed a judge’s decision to have him freed on bond.
Historical precedent: Courts wrestle with White House’s ‘invasion’ claim
Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for the Trump administration’s use of a wartime deportation authority.