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Minnesota labor unions, community activists and faith leaders are organizing the economic blackout, dubbed “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom.”
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The recent surge in federal law enforcement activity is increasingly affecting school children across the state. Some schools are offering online learning to students to afraid to go to school, while others see soaring absenteeism.
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Minnesota labor unions, community activists and faith leaders are organizing the economic blackout, dubbed “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom.”
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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said more state, local and federal cooperation could “tone down the temperature” during the federal government’s immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. But he also blamed Minnesota officials for the problems and defended the tactics of federal agents.
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Two women who were in the north Minneapolis home where a man was shot and wounded by an ICE agent last week are sharing what they witnessed that night — and it’s different from the initial reports provided by federal authorities.
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The Minneapolis police had asked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the Jan. 14 shooting outside a house in Minneapolis. In a statement Thursday, however, the BCA made it clear the federal government was impeding that investigation.
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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said more state, local and federal cooperation could “tone down the temperature” during the federal government’s immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. But he also blamed Minnesota officials for the problems and defended the tactics of federal agents.
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The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family members from their home before taking him away.
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Local animal rescues are hearing more and more cases of pets being abandoned or in dire need of care as the immigration crackdown continues in the Twin Cities.
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Two women who were in the north Minneapolis home where a man was shot and wounded by an ICE agent last week are sharing what they witnessed that night — and it’s different from the initial reports provided by federal authorities.
Read full story →Two women who were in the north Minneapolis home where a man was shot and wounded by an ICE agent last week are sharing what they witnessed that night — and it’s different from the initial reports provided by federal authorities.
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Federal immigration authorities are asserting power to enter private property without a judge’s permission in clear violation of the Constitution. Meanwhile, extreme cold warnings are already in effect for parts of northwest and north central Minnesota and will be in effect statewide by Thursday night.
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The Columbia Heights Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as “bait” to draw family members out of their home.
Read more →The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family members from their home before taking him away.
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Cities Church says it’s considering its legal options after anti-ICE protesters disrupted its service on Sunday. Meanwhile, two Catholic leaders in the state are urging immigration agents to take a different enforcement approach, and hundreds of clergy members are preparing to march Friday.
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Cities Church says it’s considering its legal options after anti-ICE protesters disrupted its service on Sunday. Meanwhile, two Catholic leaders in the state are urging immigration agents to take a different enforcement approach, and hundreds of clergy members are preparing to march Friday.
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Two weeks after a federal ice agent shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, we take the pulse of how folks in outstate Minnesota are feeling about the immigration enforcement actions and the protests against them. For many, they see the issues not as black and white or red and blue, but as shades of gray and nuanced.
Read more →The Department of Justice said it is looking at violations of the FACE Act following protesters entering Cities Church in St. Paul and disrupting a service on Sunday. It’s also looking to at the possibility of charging journalist Don Lemon, who reported on the protest, with the KKK Act.
Read more →The offices of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her confirmed they received a subpoena from the Department of Justice Tuesday afternoon.
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Federal immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 19, 2026: The U.S. Department of Justice filed notice Monday that it’s appealing a judge’s order setting limits on federal agents’ actions against protesters in Minnesota, amid increased immigration enforcement.
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A man arrested by immigration officials in Minneapolis died in federal detention in Texas.
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The fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good could upend a period of stability in Minneapolis, years after the George Floyd unrest.
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Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Agents didn’t give her CPR and turned away the help of a man who said he was a doctor.
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Oglala Sioux tribal leaders provided updates at a news conference in Minneapolis on Friday.
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As federal agents continue their surge in Minnesota, Twin Cities parents are organizing to support their immigrant neighbors. MPR News spoke to a parent group that’s driving neighbor kids to school, delivering groceries, doing laundry and patrolling the perimeter of their school building.
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With around 30 students enrolled, Southside Family Charter School switched to online learning after conservative news articles and social media posts seized upon the school’s social justice focus.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 16, 2026: A federal judge on Friday set new guardrails for federal immigration and enforcement officers in Minnesota involved in Operation Metro Surge.
Read full story →A federal agent shot a man in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. It’s the second shooting in the city by a federal agent, one week after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good.
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On Jan. 7, 2025, Renee Macklin Good was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, during a surge in immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 15, 2026: Documents released by the city of Minneapolis on Thursday paint a picture of the chaotic scene following the fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good.
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President Donald Trump threatened on social media Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop resistance to ICE activity in Minnesota. A University of Minnesota law professor explains what the law is and what its use could mean.
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Veteran prosecutors have left Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office amid DOJ pressure, raising questions about who will handle major fraud cases and how the office moves forward.
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Good's parents, siblings and widow have hired the same law firm that represented the family of George Floyd. The firm is launching a private civil investigation into Good’s death after she was shot and killed by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis.
Read more →A shakeup at Minnesota's U.S. Attorney's Office as experienced prosecutors resign amid DOJ interference in the investigation of an ICE agent shooting. Meanwhile, South Dakota's Oglala Sioux Tribe calls for the release of detained tribal members, and a new DHS reverification program is sweeping up legal refugees.
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From the rights of ICE agents to what happens after someone is detained, here’s the answers to your most-asked questions.
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A Woodbury man was detained by ICE agents after following and recording them at a grocery store.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 14, 2026: A week after the fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good another person in Minneapolis has been shot by a federal agent.
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On Tuesday morning, ICE agents took two people into custody and used chemical irritants on a crowd in south Minneapolis. The incident occurred a block from where an agent killed Renee Macklin Good. MPR News photojournalist Ben Hovland at the scene and joined host Nina Moini to talk about it.
Read more →The lead federal prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future fraud case has resigned. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson is objecting to the Justice Department's response to the killing of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE agent last week. The White House announced today that President Donald Trump is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis.
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Six people detained or threatened by ICE officers are seeking an order preventing ICE officers from taking retaliatory actions toward people who observe or protest immigration enforcement officers.
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MPR News hosts Clay Masters and Nina Moini spoke with Jason Marisam, law professor at Mitchell Hamline, about the legal argument Attorney General Keith Ellison is making through the new lawsuit.
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From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some schools with families fearing being caught up in ICE operations.
Read more →Federal immigration agents forced their way into a man’s home in north Minneapolis over the weekend, in what attorneys say was a clear violation of the Constitution. On Sunday morning, masked agents arrived to arrest Garrison Gibson, a 38‑year‑old Liberian man.
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Thompson’s resignation comes after top Justice Department officials pushed the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last week. Thompson also objected to excluding state investigators from the Good shooting investigation.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 12, 2026: Ellison announces plan to sue the federal government to end the ICE surge in Minnesota, schools weigh virtual options.
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After closing due to safety concerns last week, several Twin Cities school districts reopened their doors Monday to students with added safety measures amid a surge in immigration enforcement. More student walkouts protesting ICE operations are expected across the region.
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Several Minnesota officials took to the national airwaves Sunday to discuss the fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE officer and to press for state involvement in the investigation.
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Already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer, Minnesota's Twin Cities on Sunday braced for what many expect will be a new normal over the next few weeks as the Department of Homeland Security carries out what it called its largest enforcement operation ever.
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Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Macklin Good to death in Minnesota.
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Thousands of people gathered in frigid temperatures on Saturday afternoon to protest ICE and the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Read full story →Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty says her office is seeking out evidence to conduct a local investigation into this week's fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Read more →The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good on Wednesday morning has been identified through court documents from a June incident in Bloomington. NPR has confirmed that Jonathan Ross is the ICE officer who shot and killed Good as she was driving away from a group of agents on Portland Avenue.
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On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
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Twin Cities area schools are struggling with the heightened presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the Twin Cities and the killing of a woman by an ICE agent. Several canceled classes this week. School leaders say families are scared and absenteeism is climbing.
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The agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Court documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show Jonathan Ross was injured last summer when he was dragged by a suspect’s moving vehicle.
Read full story →This story includes live updates from Jan. 9, 2026: Protests continue across the state for Renee Macklin Good who was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty asked the public to send her office videos, photos and any other information around the shooting.
Read more →Thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis Wednesday night for a vigil to mourn the woman shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier that morning. Witnesses say she posed no threat to officers.
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On Wednesday morning Renee Good was shot and killed in south Minneapolis. Here are the answers we found to questions about body camera footage, the protections of legal observers and more.
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This story includes live updates from Jan. 8, 2026: NPR has confirmed the name of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer who shot a Renee Macklin Good as Jonathan Ross by cross referencing court records.
Read full story →The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen and mother of a 6-year-old. In social media accounts, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good described herself as a poet, writer, wife and mom.
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A motorist who was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person to die since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration crackdown last year. The Department of Homeland Security says the woman killed Wednesday was trying to run over officers with a vehicle.
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The FBI’s takeover of the investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s killing has cut off state access to evidence, raising accountability concerns.
Read more →Federal agencies have taken sole lead of the investigation of a fatal shooting by a federal immigration officer of a woman in Minneapolis, shortly after saying it would investigate jointly with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Gov. Tim Walz criticized the decision by the FBI to take over the investigation.
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State investigators say they are off the case, and the FBI is now solely in charge.
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.
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This story includes live updates from the day of the fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE agent on Wednesday, Jan. 7.
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An ICE agent shot at a man who they say hit two agents with his car on Sunday, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No one was struck by the bullets and the agents had non-life threatening injuries, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.
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In an order issued Wednesday, a judge said the man who is under a final deportation order, is not likely to be sent back to Somalia or any other country and should be released from custody
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing a lawsuit, alleging its agents have violated the rights of Minnesotans who’ve been observing recent immigration operations in the state.
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The St. Paul City Council passed a resolution calling for the investigation Wednesday amid growing frustration that the city wasn’t taking swift enough action to address the Nov. 25 police response.
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Augsburg University president Paul Pribbenow said the school will now be locking more buildings so that ICE agents cannot enter without a warrant. Federal officials say university staff “attempted to obstruct the arrest.”
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An attorney representing people who have recently been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has filed several lawsuits against the federal agency.
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Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities last Monday.
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An apparent arrest of a Rochester man has stirred fear in the Somali community as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent surge of arrests expands beyond the Twin Cities.
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An ICE operation focused on Somali immigrants in Minnesota has led to at least 19 arrests in its first week, as federal agents are mum on the exact scope. Somali Minnesotans, most of whom have U.S. citizenship, say it’s creating fear and anxiety in their communities.
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Family members have identified Jeffrey Suazo as one of the people taken into custody, and they described “threats, humiliation by HSI agents, mockery and invasion of property” during the operation.
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Federal officials now say 14 people were arrested during a law enforcement operation earlier this week at a St. Paul manufacturer.
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Families and advocates say they’re trying to reach their loved ones who were detained at a St. Paul manufacturer during a federal law enforcement operation on Tuesday.
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These crucial religious, family and community celebrations for most Mexicans and many other Latin Americans have taken on special significance this year in U.S. Latino communities, as the Trump administration escalates immigration enforcement raids, including in Minnesota.
Read more →A federal judge in Miami said his court has jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit challenging the deportation of 92 Somalis.
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