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He Spent Decades Building the Religious Right. Now He’s Marching to Undo It.

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He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he’s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join the clergy’s fight ICE’s siege of the city. “Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,” said Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance […]

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Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

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The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.  “The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members […]

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“It’s a Horror Show”: Anguish Sweeps Minneapolis After Federal Agents Kill Another Neighbor

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Minnesotans awoke to yet more terror Saturday morning as news broke that federal agents had shot and killed another local in the streets. The victim, 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, was pinned down by several agents before being shot multiple times. The Associated Press said Pretti was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans […]

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Video Contradicts Trump Administration Account of Minneapolis Killing

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A new video published on social media contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of why federal agents killed 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti in broad daylight on Saturday. The graphic video, which was uploaded by Drop Site News, shows Pretti appearing to direct traffic and film federal agents on his phone. Soon after, he […]

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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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Thousands of Minnesotans Are Taking Part in General Strike Against ICE

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“It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions,” organizers said.

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They Want to Tell You a Kid With a Spider-Man Backpack Is Evil

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Anyone with a child in the spitting distance age of a preschooler is likely to be familiar with Spidey and His Amazing Friends, the 2021 animated TV series that follows grade-school versions of Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy as they take on baddies across New York City. Their kiddo fans might even break […]

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They Fled Venezuela to Escape a Regime of Fear, Only to Relive It in Trump’s America

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A little girl can’t go to the park with her parents. A mother trembles while taking out the trash. A father peeks through the blinds to see if anyone is watching. Years earlier, this family faced persecution in Venezuela, but now they’re living in terror in the United States. They traveled thousands of miles on […]

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Whistleblowers Reveal ICE Memo Authorizing Warrantless Searches

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The memo directly contradicts the Fourth Amendment, years of caselaw, and ICE’s own training manuals.

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Hakeem Jeffries Says No to Funding ICE. Democrats Still Aren’t United.

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Wednesday that he would reject a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year over concerns that it did not sufficiently curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.  The announcement came in a closed-door meeting with Democratic caucus members, following continued […]

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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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Clergy Are Raising Holy Hell About ICE

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Over 2,000 clergy members from around the country signed onto a letter to Congress, demanding an investigation into ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s killing of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis, calling for federal agents to be removed from that city, and urging “moral accountability” and “urgent action” to address “ongoing abuse of power at the hands […]

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