#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said the state's new legal observers would be volunteer employees from her office, trained to observe, without interfering, whether Trump's immigration enforcement remains within the bounds of the law. I am proud to protect New Yorkers' constitutional rights to speak freely, protest peacefully, and go about their lives without fear of unlawful federal action, James, a Democrat, said in a statement.

In the summer of 2020, I started a directory of Black-owned businesses in Maine. I was looking for a way to support the Black community for people who couldn't attend protests. I also wanted to make a longer-term economic impact. It immediately took off. These were my neighbors and local businesses that I just hadn't heard about. That's the thing: People joke about Maine being the whitest state, but there are actually plenty of Black-owned businesses here.

In an open letter from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, more than 60 CEOs from local companies that included 3M, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, Land O'Lakes, Target, Xcel Energy and UnitedHealth Group, called for "an immediate deescalation of tensions." When I called around to several contacts in those companies yesterday, one executive told me, "These raids are terrorizing our community. We have to speak up without making things worse."

The Trump administration's approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. In 2026 so far, federal immigration agents have killed at least eight people, including at least two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis - Renee Good and Alex Pretti. As immigration enforcement has grown more extreme - even detaining school children seeking legal asylum - tech workers have called on their leaders to speak up.

A VIRTUAL BRIEFING that Brooklyn Congressmember Yvette Clarke (D-09) hosted last week focused on making sure that churches in the borough have the resources and support they need to protect their congregations should immigration officials show up. Geared for clergy members, the briefing was titled "What Chicago and Minneapolis Taught Us" and featured elected leaders, advocates and experts with a record of standing against and overcoming immigration enforcement when it disregards the rule of law, Clarke's office said.

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The recent tensions between local authorities in Minnesota and the immigration enforcement agencies of the Trump administration, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are not merely the stance of rebellious cities or states. They are the latest manifestation of a dispute as old as the nation itself: the resistance of local power against a federal center that periodically attempts to govern by imposition. To interpret what is happening today in Minneapolis and its consequences as an isolated episode of immigration policy is to remain on the surface.

We have heard nothing that suggests that there will be any increase in immigration enforcement from the federal authorities.

The interchamber tensions between Democrats are becoming a regular feature of funding fights in the second Trump term. Lawmakers, strategists and voters alike exploded in anger last March when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of colleagues allowed a spending package to move forward amid the Elon Musk-led DOGE assault on federal agencies. In November, tempers again flared when a handful of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to end a record 43-day shutdown.

Palantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration's push to deport immigrants. Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid Trump's crackdown on immigrants. The multibillion-dollar Denver-based firm creates tech focused on surveillance and analytics, to be used by the government agencies and private companies.

One of the most confusing federal government shutdowns in living memory began at midnight on January 31 when the stopgap spending authority that ended the last government shutdown in November ran out. The shutdown was triggered by Democratic fury (and Republican misgivings) over ICE and Border Patrol atrocities in Minneapolis. But Congress has to struggle through numerous procedural issues before it can even start negotiating on new guidelines for immigration enforcement.

Every Homeland Security officer on the ground, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday. Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She said the body-worn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country, Noem said in the social media post.

The corporate response to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions has been muted at best. After the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, the CEOs of more than 60 Minnesota-based companies issued a carefully worded letter calling for "an immediate de-escalation of tensions." Target's incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke sent a video message to employees calling the events "incredibly painful."

Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: "ICE > MN." "We have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country," the Pentagon chief told immigration agents in an X post. "Shame on the leadership of Minnesota-and the lunatics in the street."

We have all seen his picture, or by now we all should have seen the image of the adorable five-year-old in his bright blue hat, its floppy bunny ears so appropriate for a child whose middle name means rabbit. In the photo, he is wearing his Spider-Man backpack, which, like so many kids his age, he loves and is very proud of. And we know or we should know what happened to him.

"They told me they just needed to verify the fingerprints for our oldest son, but he would not be detained," he said. The family asked to use only their initials for fear of retaliation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. J.J. and his wife, A., didn't understand why one child's fingerprints would need checking, but they opened the door. And then they watched as their 20-year-old son was, in fact, arrested and driven away in a black SUV.

"Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say ICE out," "We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans," "I know it's tough to not hate these days. And I was thinking, sometimes we get contaminated. The hate gets more powerful with more hate," "The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don't hate them; we love our people. We love our family, and that's the way to do it - with love. Don't forget that, please."

I'm sure a lot of you are wondering why Greg Bovino, the last guy, was dismissed, Homan said. I want to stress that it wasn't because he did a bad job, or publicly lied about the shooting of an American citizen, or even uh-oh dressed like a Nazi. It was that he was filmed doing these things. And the president no likey that!

Cory never expected he'd spend hours each day driving around after immigration agents, videotaping their moves. The south Minneapolis resident is not the type of person to do this, he said. The dangers of what he's doing, even after the killings of two observers, largely stay out of his mind when he's watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents even when he's gotten hit with pepper spray.