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The Army Veteran Arrested for Protesting at a St. Paul Church Was Just Set Free

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Ian Austin, the Army veteran who was arrested in Minneapolis on Friday by federal agents for participating in an anti-ICE protest, has been released without conditions. Austin was featured in a viral Mother Jones video last week in which he was protesting outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based and detainees are held. […]

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Federal Agents Just Arrested an Army Veteran—After He Protested ICE Outside a Church

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On Friday, federal agents arrested Ian Austin, an Army veteran and ICE protester who was featured in a recent viral Mother Jones video. Austin was among the dozens of protesters who, nearly two weeks ago, interrupted a service at a church in St. Paul, where a local ICE official serves as a pastor. Since then, […]

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He Lost an Eye in the George Floyd Protests. Now He Represents the Ward Where Renée Good Was Killed.

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It was Soren Stevenson’s third day in office on the Minneapolis city council when, in the middle of a strategic planning session, Mayor Jacob Frey rushed out of the room. Soon, the council learned why: Federal agents had shot and killed Renée Good. Stevenson hurried down to the site of the killing, on the edge […]

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“We’re Going to Still Be Looking Out for Each Other When They’re Gone”

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George Floyd’s aunt, Angela Harrison, sits in her car down the block from Renée Good’s memorial, warming her hands against the heater. Outside, two women walk toward the memorial in face masks and ski goggles, the snow squeaking under their boots, to join the dozens in puffy jackets and face masks who are already there. […]

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ICE Demanded an ID, But She Held Her Ground

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You might’ve seen the video: a Minneapolis resident defiantly stands up to ICE, filming as they persistently question her. Nimco Omar, a citizen and long-time Minneapolis resident, was on her way to work when federal agents demanded to see her ID. Her viral video shows agents repeatedly asking her where she was born, with Omar […]

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This Minneapolis Church is Feeding Thousands of Families Fearing ICE

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In December, Pastor Sergio Amezcua put out a sign-up for Minnesotans who were afraid to leave their homes and needed grocery deliveries. He thought 10 or 20 families would sign up. Since then, his church, Dios Habla Hoy, has delivered food to 17,000 families. “It’s really evil what’s going on,” says Amezcua. “And coming from […]

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A Pregnant Amazon Employee Asked for a Chair to Sit on—and Wound Up Homeless

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Soon after Genesis found out she was pregnant, in the spring of 2024, she brought a doctor’s note to work. Then 20 years old, Genesis was a “stower” at an Amazon warehouse in Southern California, placing items as heavy as 50 pounds into moving pods. She wanted to continue working full-time to save up for […]

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He Fled Boko Haram and Helped Build an Award-Winning Restaurant. Now He’s Facing Deportation.

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It was Father’s Day, and Suya Joint, a celebrated West African restaurant in Boston, was slammed. Normally, Cecelia Lizotte, the restaurant’s owner and chef, would call her brother, Paul Dama, if she were in a pinch. Lizotte and Dama balanced each other out: Lizotte was the chatty boss who wore chunky jewelry and bright colors, […]

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Watch: A Mother’s Journey Through a Devastating Adoption System

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In the fall of 2018, Tia Goins was a new mother in crisis, facing eviction, unable to find room in a shelter, and confronting the prospect of homelessness in a Detroit winter—with her three-month-old baby. “It was like, what do I do?” Goins said earlier this year. “I just—I just didn’t want her to be […]

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The Trump Administration Is Shutting Down the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth

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The Trump administration is shutting down services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide hotline. Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, hotline callers could press 3 to speak with counselors trained to work specifically with LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. The service received half […]

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Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE

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The group chat lit up Jonathan Paz’s phone: Another immigration raid was happening a few blocks away. Paz took off running. He arrived minutes later to a quiet block of auto body warehouses in Waltham, Massachusetts, where SUVs with tinted windows had surrounded a sedan and apprehended the driver, a man in his late 20s. […]

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Trump Is Trying to Scrap Basic Protections for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

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The Trump administration filed a motion Thursday to end the decades-old legal ruling that established basic standards for the treatment and release of migrant children—a move that immigrant rights advocates say they will challenge. The Flores Settlement Agreement, which dates back to 1997, requires the government to move migrant children from jail-like detention facilities to […]

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