Before tens of thousands of protesters marched in Minneapolis on Friday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents leave Minnesota, they were mocked by the voice of the Minnesota Vikings. Protesters marched from Commons Park on the edge of downtown to a rally at the Target Center in temperatures hovering around 10 degrees below … Read more
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s bid to charge five more people accused of disrupting a Minnesota church service this month, according to court documents made public on Saturday, which revealed the lengths the Trump administration went to to prosecute those involved in the demonstration. … Read more
Jan. 15—MINNEAPOLIS — The former managing director of Rochester Civic Theater issued a frantic call for support from her Minnesota community late Wednesday after learning her daughter was in federal immigration custody and reportedly was to be transferred to Texas. Misha Johnson’s sister-in-law, originally from Venezuela, was riding in a car with her husband Wednesday … Read more
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota on Tuesday called for the immediate release of tribal members who were held in a homeless encampment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota last week. Three of the four Oglala Sioux Tribe members who were arrested in Minneapolis on Friday have been transferred … Read more
Some celebrities wore anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes on Sunday in tribute to Renee Good, who was killed in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis this week. The black and white pins displayed slogans such as “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” introducing a political angle to the awards show … Read more
A former FBI supervisor says the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was likely preventable on at least two fronts. On Wednesday, an undercover ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old man Renee Nicole Good. Video of the incident shows agents telling Good, who was in the driver’s seat … Read more
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Hilton Worldwide Holdings has removed from its system a Minneapolis hotel that refused to accept the bookings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the hotel operator said on Tuesday. A Hampton Inn hotel, a Hilton brand, outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, refused to accommodate ICE agents, the … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW The Department of Homeland Security is accusing a Hilton hotel of canceling reservations for a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota “When officials attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously canceled their reservations,” DHS alleged. A Hilton spokesman said the specific … Read more
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva says federal agents fired pepper spray at her and others protesting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Arizona. In a video posted on social media on Friday, Grijalva said about 40 federal officers, many of them masked, pulled up in several vehicles to raid a Taco Giro in Tucson, where … Read more