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Minnesota’s top cops have told how their officers of color are often racially profiled by armed federal immigration agents during aggressive traffic stops. Amid fears that the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge is trampling civil rights,
Advocates say community members are rightfully concerned when masked, armed men show up at homes and businesses. Law professors say local police can investigate federal agents with some limitations.
Some South Texas law enforcement agencies have signed agreements to help ICE enforce immigration law. The San Antonio Police Department has not.
After seeing footage of an ICE arrest in Minneapolis, Police Chief Brian O'Hara said that if those federal officers worked for him, "they'd have a problem right now."
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters gathered outside a hotel in downtown Minneapolis, which eventually led to a dispersal order by police.
Advocates estimate ICE has detained at least 140 people in Montco since the immigration crackdown began. “What people are seeing in Minnesota,” said one resident, “is happening here.”
The Irish-born activist behind the ICE List website is revealing a side of the story that many have overlooked, as he says, 'this didn't happen overnight.'
It was the first-known sighting of ICE agents in Clovis since President Trump launched a deportation crackdown last year.