Trump, ICE and Minnesota
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Federal agents have made a dozen arrests in Minneapolis in an operation focused on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., but fewer than half of those arrested are Somalis.
In Britain, attitudes toward migrants have hardened in the decade since Brexit, a vote driven in part by hostility toward immigrants from Eastern Europe. Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right Reform U.K. party, has called unauthorized migration an “invasion” and warned of looming civil disorder.
President Donald Trump’s latest immigration crackdown, prompted by the shooting of two National Guard members, means he has now halted or significantly tightened every form of foreign entry into the US,
Law enforcement would be barred from making civil arrests — including immigration arrests of suspected noncitizens — in state and local courtrooms under a proposal being considered by the Michigan Supreme Court.
The operations were launched a day after President Donald Trump said he’d be sending National Guard troops to New Orleans and disparaged Somali immigrants in Minneapolis.
Two million undocumented immigrants have left the US in the first year of Trump's second term, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Government data shows that the vast majority of immigrants swept up by federal agents have no criminal record.
The president also continued his verbal attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., saying the first Somali American elected to Congress "shouldn’t be allowed to be a congresswoman."
Iowa faces a shortage of immigration attorneys as Donald Trump’s enforcement surge drives demand for legal help.