Trump, Minnesota and ICE agent
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On Jan. 13, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said three men are still in detention after being transferred to an ICE detention center.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked a scandal around the theft of federal funds intended for social-welfare programs in Minnesota as a rationale for sending thousands of immigration enforcement agents into the Midwest state.
The FBI is solely leading the inquiry into the killing of Renee Macklin Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross without help from Minnesota authorities. Legal experts explain why the move is unusual and why joint investigations are the norm.
The Trump administration’s efforts to investigate Renee Good and others around her, and not the ICE officer who shot her in Minneapolis, is wreaking havoc on the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, which is leading the probe.
In a scathing Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump questioned whether Minnesotans want to live in a place with “deadly criminals.” He also defended his deportation agenda, describing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as “patriots.“
Veteran federal prosecutors in Minnesota resign after pressure from Justice Department leaders to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, raising new questions about political interference.
The Trump administration is terminating Somalia’s designation for Temporary Protected Status. United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the decision on Tuesday, noting that the policy begins on March 17.
Has anyone told him that they don’t have oil?” Colbert said of the president’s plan to send 1,000 more immigration officers to Minnesota.
Around 1,000 additional US Customs and Border Protection agents are expected to deploy to Minneapolis, according to two federal law enforcement sources, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.