State of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul sue to halt ICE surge into Minnesota

List of Stores and Restaurants Participating in the January 23 Protests

Oompa Loompa said:

Yes. In other cities that actually cooperate with federal law enforcement and do not harbor criminals, a person is arrested for a crime given legal representation, then when it is discovered that the person is an illegal immigrant, ICE is notified and the individual is transferred into their custody. No need for raids.

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Trump DOJ is arguing they don’t need to provide due process to immigrants. They are doing the bare minimum and without due process an American citizen can't prove their citizenship. They have babies representing themselves to be able to deport them.

During Trump's first term, Peter Sean Brown, a Black U.S. citizen who was born in Philadelphia was almost deported to Jamaica.

The sheriff’s office had enough information to know the ICE hold was incorrect because its own records listed him as being born in Philadelphia. ICE’s report listed the wrong birthdate for Brown and described him as 7 feet tall. Brown is 5 feet, 7 inches tall.

The sheriff said he had no control over the matter.

“When an inmate is held under an ICE matter, I, as Sheriff, do not have the legal authority to release that person.”

This was 2018. If this happened today, he'd probably already be deported.





"Despite his repeated protests to multiple jail officers, his offer to produce proof, and the jail’s own records, the sheriff’s office held Mr. Brown so that ICE could deport him to Jamaica — a country where he has never lived and knows no one," the complaint said.

When Brown tried to tell officers he was born in Philadelphia, one guard sang to him the theme of the 1990s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," where actor Will Smith raps about being "born and raised" in West Philadelphia.

Brown spent three weeks in jail in April before he was turned over to the Krome immigration detention center in Miami, according to the lawsuit.

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From Apri/May 2025


federal court has ruled in favor of Peter Sean Brown, a U.S. citizen who was unlawfully held for deportation by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) in Florida after being misidentified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a Jamaican national.

The decision, issued Friday in Brown v. Ramsay, found that Brown’s constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when MCSO detained him at ICE’s request despite clear evidence he was a U.S. citizen.

“This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement,” said Amien Kacou, staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida, which filed the lawsuit alongside co-counsel. “This case makes one thing clear: state and local police who act as ICE’s enforcers do so at their own peril."

The court rejected the sheriff’s claim that ICE’s detainer was justification for the detention, writing that “MCSO cannot abdicate its legal responsibility and turn a blind eye to this information.

ICE detainers are non-binding requests that ask state and local law enforcement to detain individuals for up to 48 hours beyond their scheduled release so ICE can assume custody. But courts have increasingly found these requests to be constitutionally problematic—especially when issued without probable cause

Trump's team tries to ruin toy store after owners denounce ICE

At my school and really schools all across the city, you see this tremendous and terrifying impact on children and on families. Kids know. They feel it. They see it. They see the fear in their parents. They see the fear in their classmates. A third-grade boy - an 8-year-old - at school, his teacher said he wasn't eating. And he confided in his teacher. He said, well, I don't want to type in my lunch code. You know, that's the system here. You put in the number and get your lunch. He said, I don't want to put in my code. I don't want ICE to know where I am or to know where my family is. And so this third-grader, in his 8-year-old brain, he had this misconception that his lunch code was going to show people where he was, put him at risk, put his family at risk. And so he was sitting at school not eating.

Educator Carolyn Brown was meeting with school counselors when she got the call: ICE agents were out front. By the time she got out of the building, ICE had abducted a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, an American citizen.

The text below is from a dkos diary. I wasn't able to link to it because of profanity but I put the AP link.



The Associated Press obtained an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo that should terrify every American who believes the Constitution means something. The memo, signed by acting ICE director Todd Lyons on May 12, 2025, authorizes federal immigration officers to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant—relying solely on administrative warrants that have never carried that authority.

Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose.”

Read that again. DHS claims the Constitution doesn’t prohibit warrantless home invasions. They’re not arguing it’s legal—they’re arguing it’s “not prohibited.” That’s not a legal standard.

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That’s what this memo enables—state-sanctioned home invasions dressed up as immigration enforcement.

Sheriff in Cumberland County in Maine said that ICE took one of their Corrections recruits



PORTLAND, Maine — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Cumberland County corrections officer recruit Wednesday evening, prompting Sheriff Kevin Joyce to question the circumstances of the arrest and ICE’s enforcement priorities.

Joyce said during a press conference on Thursday that the arrest occurred around 6 p.m. The recruit, whose name has not been released, was hired by the county in February 2025 after completing what Joyce described as a rigorous hiring and background screening process.

“In this particular case, this is an individual that had permission to be working in the state of Maine. We vetted him,” Joyce said. “He took the extra step of risking his job to fly to Texas to take care of hearings, and for some reason, he was picked up last night.”

Always in His Presence said:

Golly where did he get all that mis information from?

Whop lied to this child and gave him misinformation?

Why would they do that?

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I thought the excerpt was self explanatory.

And another one...

ICE killed someone else today. I dont know if they were a target or a protestor. They tried to order police off the scene but the police refused to leave to preserve the crime scene. There are reports that they snatched up witnesses and took them to detention. There are videos on line of 6 or 7 guys beating the guy down, including pistol whipping him. Also it looks as though he had a firearm in his waist but hadnt drawn it, the video appears to show an ice agent taking it from the holster during the beating. Hopefully witness videos won't get disappeared.





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It Is Much Worse On The Ground Than We Know, And People There Are Seeing NO ONE Coming To Their Aid

Concerns grow over ICE memo saying officers can enter homes without judge’s warrant


The internal memo, signed in May by ICE acting director Todd Lyons, says immigration agents may forcibly enter a person’s home based solely on an administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal.

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Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit legal organization that helps workers report wrongdoing, filed a whistleblower complaint about the memo. The nonprofit represents two U.S. government officials who provided the memo and remain anonymous.

The memo said immigration agents should not enter a home before 6 a.m. or after 10 p.m. and must knock and announce who they are. If the situation escalates and the person does not cooperate, the memo says agents are authorized to proceed.

“ICE officers and agents should use only a necessary and reasonable amount of force to enter the alien’s residence, following proper notification of the officer’s or agent’s authority and intent to enter,” the memo read.

The whistleblower group said the memo has not been distributed to the entire agency, but to select officials who were directed to brief the new policy verbally. Those supervisors then showed the memo to some employees, instructed them to read it and required them to return it, the group said.

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The whistleblower group said training new immigration agents with no law enforcement experience to disregard the Fourth Amendment is concerning.
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Danielle Hernandez, an immigration attorney in Ybor City, said an administrative warrant based on a deportation order from an immigration judge is not enough to break into someone’s home to apprehend them.

“Again, we are talking about civil infractions, not criminals,” Hernandez said. “I hope this is challenged in our courts sooner than later.”

A toy shop in the Twin Cities alleges the Department of Homeland Security launched a sudden audit of the business just hours after one of its owners criticized the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown in Minneapolis in a TV interview.




“In 27 years as retailers in St Paul, we've never been hit with this kind of audit,” Dan Marshall, co-owner of Mischief Toy Store, told the Minnesota StarTribune. “We just have five part-time employees, all Minnesota-born, so it's kind of a waste of their time to be targeting us.

Marshall says two ICE agents went to the store to hand-deliver an audit notice asking for federal employment forms, payroll records, and the names of past and present employees, just hours after his daughter Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall spoke with ABC News about the ongoing Trump operation and criticized DHS.

Homeland Security audits Hennepin Healthcare’s employment records for undocumented workers




The subpoena was issued less than a week after a Hennepin County commissioner and state legislators showed up at HCMC to tell ICE agents to leave the bedside of a patient they had been guarding despite not having a judicial warrant, according to immigrant advocacy group Unidos MN.


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Incident:

ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers

ICE Accused of Sexually Torturing Migrants at Former WWII Camp Fort Bliss, Among 80+ Reported Violations


As deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high, the growing outcry has reached a fever pitch, with immediate demands to shutter the facility and end the 'black box' of abuse

Republican Chris Madel exits Minnesota governor's race, calls federal "retribution" on state unconstitutional



Republican Chris Madel says he is ending his campaign for governor of Minnesota, saying that he cannot support the national members of his party and their "retribution on the citizens of our state."

Madel said he supported the original stated purpose of Operation Metro Surge — to detain the "worst of the worst" migrants who are in the country illegally — but said the operation has "expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats."

The operation, Madel said, has been an "unmitigated disaster."

In his video announcement on X, Madel said it is "wrong" that U.S. citizens of color are living in fear and carrying passports to prove their citizenship status.

"I cannot support the national Republicans stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so," Madel said.

The second reason for ending his campaign, Madel said, is that national Republicans have "made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota."