"Agents fired tear gas in Minneapolis as a crowd gathered around immigration officers questioning a man while in St Cloud, a city to the northwest, hundreds of people protested outside a strip of Somali-run businesses after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrived. Later that night, clashes broke out between protesters and officers guarding the federal building being used as a base for the crackdown in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul."
"With the Department of Homeland Security pledging to send more than 2,000 immigration officers into Minnesota in what ICE has described as its largest enforcement operation ever, the state, joined by Minneapolis and St Paul, sued the Trump administration to try to halt or limit the surge. The lawsuit says the Department of Homeland Security is violating the First Amendment and other constitutional protections."
"Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since December. In the days since Renee Nicole Good was shot in the head on Wednesday by an ICE officer while behind the wheel of her SUV, there have been dozens of protests and vigils across the US to honour the 37-year-old mother of three and to fiercely criticise the Trump administration's tactics."
Federal immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota have prompted widespread protests, tear gas deployments and clashes between agents and demonstrators across multiple cities. State and local leaders, including Minneapolis and St Paul, filed a lawsuit seeking to halt or limit a Department of Homeland Security pledge to send more than 2,000 immigration officers for what ICE called its largest enforcement operation. The lawsuit alleges violations of the First Amendment and other constitutional protections and accuses the administration of targeting a progressive, immigrant-welcoming state. Homeland Security reports over 2,000 arrests since December. The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer sparked nationwide vigils and demonstrations.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]