Community leaders respond after Trump directs ICE to target Somali immigrants in Twin Cities
Minnesota is home to nearly 80,000 Somalis, and 95% of them are U.S. citizens according to CAIR-MN.
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Minnesota is home to nearly 80,000 Somalis, and 95% of them are U.S. citizens according to CAIR-MN.
The Trump administration has halted all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries, according to internal government guidance, its latest move to restrict legal immigration pathways.
Sources tell the Associated Press that Somali immigrants are the target of the operation.
President Trump is now ordering that Somali green cards, along with green cards issued to 18 other countries of "concern," are reexamined.
The Trump administration on Friday directed officials to pause all asylum decisions in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C.
President Trump has ordered the government to re-examine the green cards of thousands of people.
Early Tuesday morning, ICE reported that officers arrested a man from Honduras who had allegedly re-entered the United States illegally.
Plans are in the works to end deportation protections for Minnesotans who fled Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced the end to temporary protected status for several countries, including Burma, also known as Myanmar. Minnesota has the country's largest population of Karen people, who've been displaced from their homeland of Myanmar. Our Jason Rantala has local reaction to the news.
After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child.
A federal judge says the trial for a Milwaukee judge accused of illegally helping an immigrant avoid federal agents will proceed as planned despite talk of a plea deal.
The number of immigration detainees without criminal records held in detention after getting arrested by ICE has increased by over 2,000% since the start of the second Trump administration.
After being deported from Minnesota last week, 22-year-old Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month old child.
A man who says his uncle and cousin were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in St. Paul on Tuesday fears for their safety and is looking for answers.
Protecting Americans. That's what federal officials said about Tuesday's raid at a St. Paul Business. Fourteen people were arrested on“immigration violations,” according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Conor Wight introduces a man who says his uncle and cousin were two of the people arrested.
Des Moines Public Schools has released a report claiming it received an incomplete background check and a likely forged transcript when hiring former superintendent Ian Roberts.
Federal authorities on Tuesday clashed with protesters outside of a business in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving several people injured.
Bro-Tex unveiled the mural this summer. Meet the artist behind it, who knows his work now has renewed meaning.
Plea negotiations are underway for a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents.
Federal authorities were clashing with protesters in an industrial park in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday.
It was a tough takedown of a father filmed by his son. ICE is sharing its side of the story for the first time. Immigration agents say what that man did put their lives in danger. But as Conor Wight reports, the family's new legal team is contesting that claim.
A federal judge has ordered that hundreds of people detained by ICE be released from federal facilities in the next week because their arrests were possibly unlawful and in violation of a federal court order.
Use of force by federal agents has become a focus of legal disputes as the Trump administration contends the tactics are necessary. Our visual investigation breaks down some of the key moments.
Charging documents filed Wednesday say that between January 2023 and November 2025, the ringleader targeted at least 25 immigrants she met at Twin Cities churches.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other federal officials were in Minneapolis on Friday for what they called a discussion on ICE operations and to give an update on President Trump's immigration enforcement operations in the region.
