“Targeting children—our babies—is beyond the pale. ICE is completely out of control and beyond fixing,” said Minnesota’s lieutenant governor. Federal immigration agents have detained at least four children from Minnesota public schools over the past two weeks, including a 5-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were both sent to Texas detention centers that have come under fire for grotesque conditions. Zena Stenvik, the […]
The Minnesota Star-Tribune described “plumes of green and gray smoke” that “burst over the crowd.” US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino on Tuesday was caught on video throwing a gas grenade at lawful protesters in Minneapolis on the same day that a court temporarily lifted restrictions on federal immigration agents’ use of force in the […]
Experts are warning that the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war. Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule […]
“This week’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg,” said the executive director of Social Security Works. “We need to know exactly who has our data and what they are doing with it.” Advocates and Democratic members of Congress are calling for a criminal investigation after a court filing revealed that operatives at the Department of […]
