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Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests
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Tensions remain high Minneapolis following the murder of Renee Bonne by a federal agent. Approximately 3,000 immigration agents continue operations in Minnesota or are en route to deployment to the state.
THE American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and illegal arrests. Donald Trump threatened to invoke Insurrection Act in response to widespread protests against federal immigration operations.
The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walzurged protesters to “speak out loud and clear, urgently but also peacefully” and made a direct appeal to the president to “lower the temperature.”
“Stop this campaign of retaliation,” Walz said in a statement. “That’s not who we are.”
A federal officer shot a man in the leg during a crackdown in north Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, sparking new protests.
After the shooting, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Freyimplored his constituents to “don’t take the bait” and respond with violence. “We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos,” he said.
In other developments:
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A group of American parliamentarians is visiting Copenhagen today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the United States to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements on the subject. Greenland – but Thursday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary argued that the task force’s goal was “to continue to have technical negotiations on the acquisition of Greenland.“Our colleague Jakub Krupa has more to say about this on the Europe live blog.
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In other immigration news, the death of a man who was being held in a federal detention camp in Texas in early January, could be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause to be “asphyxia due to compression of the neck and chest.”
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Leader of the Venezuelan opposition Maria Corina Machado met Thursday with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill. She then said she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.
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A rejected appeal court Mahmoud Khalil a lawsuit challenging his initial detention and paving the way for his re-arrest. Khalil – a green card holder and Columbia graduate – was released from an immigration detention center last year, after initially being arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Key events
More than 2,400 people have been arrested in the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota over the past few weeks – including some who had valid visas and the right to be in the United States, according to local leaders who responded to constituents affected by the raids and lawyers representing immigrants.
Several refugees with legal status have also been arrested in recent days after the Trump administration announced it would “review thousands of refugee cases”, the Guardian confirmed.
The Guardian’s Maanvi Singh and Rachel Leingang are present Minneapolis reports on families torn apart by these federal immigration operations. Read more here:
Here are some images that arrive overnight on the feeds of Minneapolis:
Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests
Hello and thank you for joining us on the American Politics live blog.
Tensions remain high Minneapolis following the murder of Renee Bonne by a federal agent. Approximately 3,000 immigration agents continue operations in Minnesota or are en route to deployment to the state.
THE American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and illegal arrests. Donald Trump threatened to invoke Insurrection Act in response to widespread protests against federal immigration operations.
The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walzurged protesters to “speak out loud and clear, urgently but also peacefully” and made a direct appeal to the president to “lower the temperature.”
“Stop this campaign of retaliation,” Walz said in a statement. “That’s not who we are.”
A federal officer shot a man in the leg during a crackdown in north Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, sparking new protests.
After the shooting, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Freyimplored his constituents to “don’t take the bait” and respond with violence. “We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos,” he said.
In other developments:
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A group of American parliamentarians is visiting Copenhagen today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the United States to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements on the subject. Greenland – but Thursday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary argued that the task force’s goal was “to continue to have technical negotiations on the acquisition of Greenland.“Our colleague Jakub Krupa has more to say about this on the Europe live blog.
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In other immigration news, the death of a man who was being held in a federal detention camp in Texas in early January, could be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause to be “asphyxia due to compression of the neck and chest.”
-
Leader of the Venezuelan opposition Maria Corina Machado met Thursday with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill. She then said she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.
-
A rejected appeal court Mahmoud Khalil a lawsuit challenging his initial detention and paving the way for his re-arrest. Khalil – a green card holder and Columbia graduate – was released from an immigration detention center last year, after initially being arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
