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ACLU’s Lawsuit Over ICE Raid at an Idaho Racetrack Could Be a Game Changer

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In a small Idaho town, a 10-year-old girl I’ll call A.S.P. was cozied up in her family’s pickup truck outside La Catedral racetrack, where she and her dad were looking forward to a day of festivities. It was a Sunday in October, and families in this predominantly Latino town, Wilder, were there to cheer on […]

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Trump’s Minions Are Pressuring Prosecutors to Charge ICE Protesters Based on Scant Evidence

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More federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The prosecutors, at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have been deluged with allegations […]

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Federal Prosecutors in Minnesota Are “Demoralized and Pissed”

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More federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The prosecutors, at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have been deluged with allegations […]

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How a Violent, Warrantless ICE Raid Devastated a Memphis Family

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A few weeks before Christmas, six siblings huddled around a phone in their mom’s bedroom to talk with their dad and grandpa, who’d just been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Memphis. Camila, 16, the oldest girl, seemed tense as she sat next to Saraya, 13. Their grandpa tried to lighten the mood, at […]

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What’s the Deal With That Scary-Looking Green Gas ICE Is Using in Minneapolis?

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Immigration officers in Minneapolis are now using a weapon that’s unfamiliar to many protesters: grenades that spew a noxious green gas. On Wednesday, Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino made headlines when he hurled a canister of it at a crowd that had gathered at Mueller Park. “I’m gonna gas. Get back. Gas is coming,” Bovino […]

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Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands

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Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel drive around these cities, they’re often tailed by people in the neighborhoods. The idea is to make sure witnesses are present for any immigration arrest, to catch incidents […]

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Minnesota US Attorney’s Office Is Bracing for a New Wave of Resignations

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More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, […]

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An Expert Weighs in on Hurdles to Suing the ICE Officer Who Fatally Shot Renée Good

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If the ICE officer who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week is not prosecuted criminally, or even if he is, can he also be sued? Legal experts have different takes. Last week I spoke with a police misconduct attorney in Minnesota who seemed hopeful about the odds that Good’s family might […]

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Misconduct Expert Says State Has the Right to Charge ICE Officer Who Killed Renee Good

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After an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis this week, firing his weapon as she attempted to drive away, protesters have amassed around the country, many wondering: Can that officer be taken to court? The Trump administration, predictably, says the agent, Jonathan Ross, is immune from prosecution. “You have a federal law […]

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Minneapolis Area Councilwoman Decries Trump’s Reign of Terror

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As immigration officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul target daycares and schools, a growing number of parents are terrified to bring their kids in, according to St. Paul City Council member Molly Coleman. “We’re hearing this from folks regardless of immigration status,” even families who are here legally, she says. Coleman told me that Immigration […]

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“I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”

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On a dark November evening, I find myself outside one of the units at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds. The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime. I’m accompanied by Mauricio Calvo, a 50-year-old local whose friend Diego lives here. […]

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This Young Soccer Squad Has Never Faced a Rival Like Donald Trump

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When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]

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