Border Patrol typically only has legal authority within 100 miles of the U.S. border. MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about that agency’s jurisdiction in Minnesota.
The federal Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem was in the Twin Cities, as a federal immigration crackdown continues.
A Minnesota hotel that wouldn’t allow federal immigration agents to stay there this month is apologizing and saying the refusal violated its own policies.
ICE has released the names of a fraction of the more than 670 it has reported to have arrested during the immigration enforcement sweep that began Dec. 1. An MPR News analysis of federal court records provides a clue as to the fate of some of the detainees in an immigration system that is increasingly opaque.
A look at how sweeping federal immigration policy changes in 2025 affected Minnesota, from refugee resettlement and enforcement actions to court cases and community responses across the state.
The Republican representative from Minnesota also said naturalized U.S. citizens who committed fraud should have their citizenship revoked — even if that would require changing the law.
Churches and faith leaders across Minnesota are calling for a cooling of the hateful rhetoric and a stop to the fear-mongering this Christmas as the threat of more immigration enforcement actions hangs over the holiday.
The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services told federal homeland security officials to stop license plate switching immediately. Gov. Tim Walz called tampering with plates “criminal activity.”
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