US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center – as it happened

Congressman Joaquin Castro met with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas today.

In a post on social media, Castro shared a photograph of Liam resting in his father’s arms. Castro added that he told Liam “how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him”.

An image posted Castro’s X account on 28 January 2026 shows him visiting five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Photograph: @JoaquinCastrotx via X

Liam became a symbol of the wide reach of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis last week when he was detained on his way home from preschool. A photograph captured Liam in ICE custody while wearing a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack.

Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of Liam’s school, said Liam and his father had been apprehended on their way home from school. An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, she said in a statement.

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Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a summary of the key developments from today:

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The FBI executed a search warrant at the election office in Fulton county, Georgia for records related to the 2020 election. The warrant sought all ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton county, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls, according to a warrant obtained by the Guardian.

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Congressman Joaquin Castro met with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas today. In a post on social media, Castro shared a photograph of Liam resting in his father’s arms. At a press conference later in the day, Castro said Liam seemed lethargic and added that “his father said that Liam has been very depressed since he’s been at Dilley.”

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Two federal officers who fired their guns during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti were placed on administrative leave on Saturday. An initial Department of Homeland Security review of the incident also made no mention of Pretti “brandishing” a gun.

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Video recorded on 13 January in Minneapolis by the digital news outlet The News Movement, released on Wednesday, appears to show Pretti being tackled to the ground by another group of federal officers during an altercation 11 days before he was killed.

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Donald Trump spent nearly an hour praising his administration’s new “Trump Accounts”, individual investment accounts for US children that will take effect in July as part of Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Democratic and Republican lawmakers came out in support of Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, a day after she was attacked at a town hall event. At a press conference in Minneapolis today, Omar was joined by Democratic congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who called for the impeachment of the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.

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A federal judge in Minnesota blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining the 5,600 refugees living in the state. He also ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release and return to Minnesota anyone already detained by the administration under the operation.

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A separate federal judge in Minnesota canceled a contempt of court hearing for a lead ICE official, but also noted that the agency has failed to comply with nearly 100 court orders since 1 January.

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Trump announced the formation of a new National Fraud Enforcement division of the justice department and nominated a justice department official, Colin McDonald, to lead it as a new assistant attorney general.

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Attorney general Pam Bondi has said she is “on the ground in Minneapolis” and that federal agents have arrested 16 demonstrators in Minnesota after alleged assaults on federal law enforcement officers.

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Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, laid out Democratic demands for policy changes for ICE, as he pushed for DHS funding to be separated from the other funding bills ahead of a looming shutdown at the end of this week. He also called for DHS secretary Kristi Noem and top Trump aide Stephen Miller to go.

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The Ecuadorian government said that an ICE agent attempted to enter its Minneapolis consulate on Tuesday, but was prevented from coming in by staff working at the building.

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Bruce Springsteen released a new song in response to what he described as “the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis”.

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Marco Rubio has declined to rule out future US military action in Venezuela but insisted the Trump administration did not intend to take such steps, as he faced questions from lawmakers over Washington’s unprecedented intervention.

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Trump has said a “massive armada” is heading to Iran and is ready to “fulfil its mission with speed and violence if necessary”.

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The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged after its first rate-setting meeting of the year today, resisting enormous pressure from the White House to lower rates.

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A new letter from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to six cities cost taxpayers $496m between June and December 2025.

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The No Kings Coalition has announced it will hold another mass mobilization event on 28 March, centered around a flagship event in the Twin Cities.

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Video recorded on 13 January in Minneapolis by the digital news outlet The News Movement, released on Wednesday, appears to show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse gunned down by federal agents on Saturday, being tackled to the ground by another group of federal officers during an altercation 11 days before he was killed.

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According to the News Movement report, the newly discovered video of Pretti was recorded at East 36th Street and Park Avenue, in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn neighborhood, while the outlet was “filming a documentary about ICE activity”.

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The video shows the man who appears to be Pretti shouting at federal officers and kicking the taillight of their vehicle as they move away. As the light breaks, the vehicle stops and agents descend on the man identified to CNN by a representative of Pretti’s family as Pretti. After several agents hurl Pretti to the ground, they fire chemical agents at the crowd of protesters and leave.

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As Pretti stands back up, what appears to be a gun can be seen in his waistband.

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What prompted Pretti’s anger at the agents that morning is not clear from the video, but Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news site that reports on immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota, reported that day that dozens of residents had showed up to protest and observe a federal immigration sweep in the area. On the same morning, just two blocks away, a young woman named Aliya Rahman was violently pulled from her car while trying to drive past federal immigration agents and roughly treated in an image that prompted widespread outrage.

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Andy Larson, a Minneapolis resident who was observing the federal agents that morning, told Sahan Journal that day “that one protester kicked out the taillight of an ICE vehicle and was tackled to the ground up the road on Park Avenue and E. 36th Street.”

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Nearly 20 minutes of video posted on YouTube that day by another witness to the incident gives a sense of the roiling anger in the neighborhood over the immigration enforcement operation, with cars honking and people blowing whistles to alert their neighbors to the presence of federal agents. Then Pretti arrives to curse at the agents for what they are doing and spits at their vehicle as they drive off, before kicking the taillight and then being tackled to the ground.

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Rightwing influencers claimed that the video showed Pretti spitting on officers, but the second witness video, recorded from the opposite side of the street, shows that he spat on the vehicle only after the agent he had been shouting at had closed the door.

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A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining the 5,600 refugees living in the state.

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In a ruling issued today, US district judge John R Tunheim granted the Advocates for Human Rights, which represents midwesterners seeking asylum, a temporary restraining order blocking Operation Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening (“Operation Parris”). He also ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release and return to Minnesota anyone already detained by the administration under the operation.

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“The refugees impacted by this Order are carefully and thoroughly vetted individuals who have been invited into the United States because of persecution in the countries from which they have come. They are not committing crimes on our streets, nor did they illegally cross the border,” he wrote. “Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully – and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested.”

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A new letter from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to six cities cost taxpayers $496m between June and December 2025.

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Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, ranking member of the Senate budget committee, requested the estimate of costs to activate, deploy, and compensate national guard troops and marines sent to Los Angeles, Washington DC, Memphis, Portland, Chicago and New Orleans. Continuing those deployments would cost roughly $93m per month.

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In a press release, Merkely’s office said: “Following Trump’s directive that national guard troops will stay in Washington DC for the remainder of 2026, CBO estimates this deployment alone will cost taxpayers upwards of $660m. If the administration continues the guard deployment to Memphis and the 200 Texas national guard troops remain active for all of 2026, as expected, and keeps personnel deployed to New Orleans for two additional months, that figure balloons to $1.1bn.”

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Chuck Schumer also ramped up the pressure for DHS secretary Kristi Noem and top Trump aide Stephen Miller to go, as he repeated calls for the president to pull ICE agents out of Minnesota.

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He wrote on X:

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It’s outrageous that Kristi Noem still has a job in the administration after federal officers murdered two American citizens in just two weeks. Noem is incompetent and she must go. And her boss Stephen Miller must be removed as well.

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In another post, the Senate minority leader urged Trump to follow through on his pledge to “de-escalate” in Minnesota. Schumer said:

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President Trump said he wants to de-escalate things in Minneapolis, but he has taken zero meaningful action to make that happen. Yesterday, Border Patrol leadership told their agents that the operations are ‘expected to continue as planned.’ If Trump was serious, he would remove all of ICE from Minnesota now.

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The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has laid out Democratic demands for policy changes for ICE, as he pushed for DHS funding to be separated from the other funding bills ahead of a looming shutdown at the end of this week.

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Let me be clear: Democrats stand ready today to pass the five bipartisan bills in the Senate, but the DHS bill needs serious work. It’s now on Leader [John] Thune to separate out the DHS bill, just as Speaker [Mike] Johnson did in the House, and start working with Democrats to rein in ice, imposing oversight, accountability and empowering local law enforcement in our communities.

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Schumer said this afternoon that federal immigration agents must lose their masks, wear body cameras, observe the same use of force rules as local police, and be subject to tighter rules requiring search warrants and an end to roving patrols, as he outlined conditions that his party is seeking to extend government funding beyond Saturday’s deadline.

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Schumer also said in a post on X:

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The Senate is scheduled to take the first procedural vote on a funding package including DHS funding tomorrow.

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Let me be clear: Until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled, the DHS funding bill won’t have the votes to pass the Senate.

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He told CNN:

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Our number one goal is — these are three policy areas we think must be done. What we want to do is negotiate with the Republicans and come up with a proposal that, again, reins in ice and ends the violence.

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Patrick Wintour and Andrew Roth

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The threat of war between the US and Iran appeared to loom closer after Donald Trump told Tehran that time was running out and a huge US armada was moving quickly towards the country “with great power, enthusiasm and purpose”.

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Writing on social media, the US president said today that the fleet headed by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was larger than the one sent to Venezuela before the removal of Nicolás Maduro earlier this month and was “prepared to rapidly fulfill its missions with speed and violence if necessary”.

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Trump said:

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Hopefully Iran will quickly ‘Come to the Table’ and negotiate a fair and equitable deal – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS – one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence!

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As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again.

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It was the starkest indication yet from Trump that he intends to mount some kind of military strike imminently if Iran refuses to negotiate a deal on the future of its nuclear programme. The post also reflects a remarkable shift in the White House’s stated rationale for sending a carrier strike group to the region, moving away from outrage over the death of protesters to the fate of Tehran’s nuclear programme.

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Here’s the full report:

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Marco Rubio has declined to rule out future US military action in Venezuela but insisted the Trump administration did not intend to take such steps, as he faced questions from lawmakers over Washington’s unprecedented intervention.

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The US secretary of state appeared before the Senate foreign relations committee today to defend the removal of Nicolás Maduro, which has left Venezuela under the control of interim president Delcy Rodríguez while the US seizes and sells its oil.

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“The president does reserve the option in self-defense to eliminate that threat,” Rubio said when pressed by Connecticut senator Chris Murphy on whether the administration would use force to compel cooperation on oil sales.

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Rubio cited a hypothetical scenario of an Iranian drone factory threatening US forces in the region, but acknowledged that “military action is not good for recovery and transition”.

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Rubio had earlier warned in prepared testimony that the US remains “prepared to use force to ensure maximum cooperation if other methods fail”, though he told senators today: “I can tell you right now with full certainty, we are not postured to, nor do we intend or expect to have to take any military action in Venezuela at any time.”

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Read Joseph’s full report here:

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US attorney general Pam Bondi has said she is “on the ground in Minneapolis” and that federal agents have arrested 16 demonstrators in Minnesota after alleged assaults on federal law enforcement officers.

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Those arrested are allegedly, “People who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents,” she said in a post on X. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: NOTHING will stop President Trump and this Department of Justice from enforcing the law.”

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She added that she expects there will be more arrests.

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And just like that, I have an update from my colleague Anna Betts. A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson confirmed:

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The two officers involved are on administrative leave and have been since Saturday. This is standard protocol.

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Per my last post, that confirmation is directly at odds with Greg Bovino’s assertion on Sunday.

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Trump has since withdrawn Bovino from Minneapolis. He told Fox News yesterday: “I don’t think it’s a pullback. It’s a little bit of a change … You know, Bovino is very good, but he’s a pretty out there kind of a guy. And in some cases that’s good, maybe it wasn’t good here.”

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Saint Paul’s mayor, Kaohly Her, said in statement that she met with federal officials, including Tom Homan, on Wednesday “to address the ongoing ICE surge in Minnesota”.

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“Today I met with Tom Homan and his team to discuss the ongoing ICE surge in Minnesota” Her said. “I appreciated the opportunity to share with them the harm this surge is having in our city. I reinforced the importance of immigrants and refugees to the fabric of our community. Changing leadership and opening lines of communication with leaders in Minnesota are promising steps toward building trust, ensuring accountability to federal actions, and finding a meaningful resolution to end this surge.

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“We look forward to seeing concrete next steps as Mr Homan meets with local officials to de-escalate the situation in Saint Paul,” she added.

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Donald Trump spent nearly an hour on Wednesday praising his administration’s new “Trump Accounts”, individual investment accounts for US children that will take effect in July as part of Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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With the midterm elections looming, the administration is increasingly emphasizing its plan to give every child born between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2028 a $1,000 initial deposit from the government – as long as they sign up.

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“For the first time ever, we’re going to give every newborn American child a financial stake in the future, a head start at life and a fair shot at the American dream,” Trump said, as part of his rambling remarks at the Trump Accounts summit. “Something people don’t talk about so much. At least these last four years, they haven’t been. But now they’re talking about it big. This last period of time, it’s been unbelievable.”

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Trump spent his time at the podium praising his supporters and rich individuals who have pledged to donate money to Trump Accounts, such as Brad Gerstner, the CEO of Altimeter Capital. Gerstner will give $250 to all Indiana children who are under 5 and have Trump Accounts, the president said. Gerstner has been a supporter of the idea of Trump Accounts for years, according to the New York Times.

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“This makes every child in America a capitalist from birth,” Gerstner said.

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Nicki Minaj also made a short appearance. Her comments mostly focused on how people are “bullying” Trump, with whom Minaj briefly held hands.

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“I am probably the president’s No 1 fan,” the rapper told the crowd assembled at the summit. “The hate or what people have to say – it does not affect me, at all. It actually motivates me to support him more.”

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The federal agents involved in fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota over the weekend have been placed on administrative leave, the Guardian has learned.

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A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to the Guardian: “The two officers involved are on administrative leave. This is standard protocol.”

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Earlier we brought you some lines from the ABC News interview with Donald Trump in which the US president remained staunchly and unapologetically unsympathetic to Ilhan Omar, who was attacked at her town hall last night in Minneapolis.

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In that interview, Trump also hinted at a “more relaxed” approach from federal agents operating in Minnesota after the fatal shootings of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis this month.

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Asked what would change now that he had sent his “border czar” Tom Homan to lead the operation, the president said, “We can start doing maybe a little bit more relaxed” and “We’d like to finish the job and finish it well, and I think we can do it in a de-escalated form.”

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While it marks a tonal shift from the president, as my colleague Adam Gabbatt notes in today’s edition of This week in Trumpland (sign up here), “we should be careful not to exaggerate the extent of Trump’s sympathy”.

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“It would surely be naive to think this will prompt an abrupt change in policy,” Adam writes, noting that Trump is likely just paying attention to public opinion towards federal actions in Minnesota.

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As we reported earlier, less than a day after stating that apparent intention to “de-escalate”, Trump warned Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey this morning that he was “playing with fire” after the Democratic leader reiterated that his city would not help federal agents enforce immigration law. And Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, told reporters this morning he hadn’t seen any evidence yet of ICE withdrawing from the city.

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Indeed, at a treasury event Trump spoke at earlier this morning, he didn’t mention immigration, ICE or Minnesota once.

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White House deputy chief of staff and architect of Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration crackdown Stephen Miller has said that officials were evaluating why Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis “may not have been following” proper protocol before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, CNN reports.

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In a statement to CNN, Miller said the White House had “provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors.”

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“We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol,” he said.

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It comes amid a significant shift in the White House’s rhetoric amid the intense backlash over the fatal shooting of Pretti on Saturday. Miller initially referred to the killed ICU nurse as a “would-be assassin”, while, per my earlier post, DHS secretary Kristi Noem claimed he was a “domestic terrorist” (a characterization that has landed her in hot water).

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump from that messaging during a press briefing yesterday, saying she had not heard the president characterize Pretti in that way and called Pretti’s death a “tragedy”.

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Two federal officers fired their guns during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, according to an initial review by the Department of Homeland Security that was obtained by NBC News.

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Three sources told NBC News that the preliminary report, from a Customs and Border Protection internal investigation led by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was sent to congressional committees yesterday, including the House homeland security and judiciary committees.

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The document reportedly states that agents were conducting an operation when they encountered two women blowing whistles and ordered them to move out of the way. One of the women then reportedly ran towards Pretti, prompting officers to attempt “to move the woman and Pretti out of the roadway”.

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“The woman and Pretti did not move,” it goes on to say, and agents then sprayed a chemical irritant towards Pretti and the woman, and attempted to take Pretti into custody.

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“Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued,” it says.

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According to the report, during the struggle, an officer yelled, “He’s got a gun!” multiple times and then “approximately five seconds later a BPA [Border Patrol agent] discharged his CBP-issued Glock 19 and a CBPO [Customs and Border Protection officer] also discharged his CBP-issued Glock 47 at Pretti.”

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The report says that after the shooting, an agent informed the others he had possession of Pretti’s firearm.

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It is unclear from the report whether the bullets from both officers’ guns hit Pretti.

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NBC News also notes that the report did not make any mention of Pretti attacking officers or brandishing a gun, as DHS secretary Kristi Noem claimed in the aftermath of the shooting. Noem called the victim “a domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate law enforcement”, rhetoric that has since been walked back by the White House amid the deepening backlash over Pretti’s killing. Pressure is mounting on Noem to go, with even two Republican senators calling for her resignation.

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Video footage recorded by multiple eyewitnesses show that Pretti was holding a phone, not a weapon, when he was tackled by federal agents. One video shows that an officer removed a gun from Pretti’s waist area just before he was fatally shot.

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A DHS spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet that “the initial statement was based on reports from CBP from a very chaotic scene on the ground”.

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“That’s precisely why an investigation is underway and DHS will let the facts lead the investigation,” they added.

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In a fundraising email sent out on Wednesday from Donald Trump’s team, he sarcastically asks those subscribed who haven’t responded to a “Citizens Only Survey” if they are undocumented.

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“Your file says you’re a top MAGA patriot…but my records to my survey STILL say: RESPONSE PENDING”

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“Don’t tell me, YOU’RE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN?!?”

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The email was logged by Archive of Political Emails, a non profit project of Defending Democracy Together Institute.

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Late last night and early in the morning, lawmakers from both parties came out to condemn the spraying attack on Ilhan Omar during her town hall in Minneapolis.

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A quick round up:

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In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries responded to comments from Donald Trump who quipped that “she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

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Jeffries countered: “That’s a disgusting comment and the president’s lies and misinformation continue to fan the flames of these types of violent incidents.”

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“Ilhan Omar, of course, is a strong, courageous, hardworking public servant. This should have never happened,” he continued.

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Representative from Minnesota Angie Craig said she’s “relieved that my colleague Ilhan is safe.”

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“The rise in political violence in our state must stop,” she posted on X. “We are better than this Minnesota.”

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Representative from Ohio Greg Landsman said “the rhetoric against a sitting member of Congress is un-American” and leads to more violence.

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“Everyone, regardless of political affiliation, should approach this moment with humility and grace. That’s how we break this cycle of division and hate.”

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South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace wrote that she is “deeply disturbed” to learn that Omar was attacked at the town hall.

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“Regardless of how vehemently I disagree with her rhetoric—and I do—no elected official should face physical attacks. This is not who we are.”

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When Donald Trump was asked in an interview with ABC on whether he saw the video of the spray attack on Ilhan Omar, he said, “No, I don’t think about her.”

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Asked again if he had seen the video, Trump said: “I haven’t seen it. No, no. I hope I don’t have to bother.”

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President Donald Trump has said a “massive armada” is heading to Iran and is ready to “fulfil its mission with speed and violence if necessary”.

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Iran should be ready to enter negotiations to find a “fair and equitable deal” that stops them from having nuclear weapons. “Time is running out, it is truly of the essence,” he says.

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This comes after Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told state media in Iran that he has not been in contact with US envoy Steve Witkoff in the past couple of days. Previously, Iran had said there was always a channel of communication between the two.

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The Ecuadorian government has said that a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent attempted to enter its Minneapolis consulate on Tuesday, but was prevented from coming in by staff working at the building.

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This has prompted Ecuador’s government to send a formal protest note to US authorities “so that acts of this nature are not repeated at any of Ecuador’s consular offices in the United States.”

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Videos circulating on social media appear to show a consulate staffer running to the door to turn the ICE agents away, telling them, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.”

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Under international law, law enforcement authorities are prohibited from entering foreign consulates or embassies without permission. However, sometimes permission may be assumed granted for life-threatening emergencies, like fires.

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The Guardian has reached out to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment.

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While Donald Trump suggested he would “de-escalate” operations in Minneapolis, congresswoman Ilhan Omar was attacked and sprayed with an unknown substance at a town hall event in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening – where she was calling for the abolition of ICE “for good”.

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A man lunged toward her with a syringe and sprayed the politician, before security tackled him to the ground. The alleged attacker, who has been identified as a 55-year-old Minneapolis resident, has been arrested and charged with third-degree assault. Jail records identified the man as Anthony James Kazmierczak.

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Omar stepped toward the attacker before returning to the podium to say: “Here’s the reality that people like this ugly man don’t understand: We are Minnesota strong. And we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw on us.”

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Omar, who was not injured in the attack, later posted on social media that she was OK, adding: “I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me.”

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Hours before the attack on Omar, president Donald Trump criticised the congresswoman as he spoke to a crowd in Iowa, where he said his administration would only let in immigrants who “can show that they love our country.”

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“They have to be proud, not like Ilhan Omar,” he said. The crowd responded with a booing sound as he mentioned her name.

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He added: “She comes from a country that’s a disaster. So probably, it’s considered, I think – it’s not even a country.”

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Omar and her family escaped civil war in Somalia when she was eight years old, and sought asylum in the United States after years in a refugee camp in Kenya. She is a US citizen.

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There have been days of protest and international outcry over the Saturday shooting of 37-year-old VA nurse Alex Pretti, the second fatal shooting of a US civilian by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis.

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The White House is also evaluating whether federal agents who gunned down a nurse may have failed to follow “clear guidance” to “create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors”, deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told AFP.

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The White House later said that Miller was referring to “general guidance” to immigration agents operating in the state, rather than the specific incident in which Pretti was killed.

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Trump told Fox News “we’re going to de-escalate a little bit,” while adding that it was not a “pullback.”

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Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a summary of the key developments from today:

The FBI executed a search warrant at the election office in Fulton county, Georgia for records related to the 2020 election. The warrant sought all ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton county, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls, according to a warrant obtained by the Guardian.
Congressman Joaquin Castro met with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas today. In a post on social media, Castro shared a photograph of Liam resting in his father’s arms. At a press conference later in the day, Castro said Liam seemed lethargic and added that “his father said that Liam has been very depressed since he’s been at Dilley.”
Two federal officers who fired their guns during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti were placed on administrative leave on Saturday. An initial Department of Homeland Security review of the incident also made no mention of Pretti “brandishing” a gun.
Video recorded on 13 January in Minneapolis by the digital news outlet The News Movement, released on Wednesday, appears to show Pretti being tackled to the ground by another group of federal officers during an altercation 11 days before he was killed.
Donald Trump spent nearly an hour praising his administration’s new “Trump Accounts”, individual investment accounts for US children that will take effect in July as part of Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers came out in support of Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, a day after she was attacked at a town hall event. At a press conference in Minneapolis today, Omar was joined by Democratic congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who called for the impeachment of the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.
A federal judge in Minnesota blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining the 5,600 refugees living in the state. He also ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release and return to Minnesota anyone already detained by the administration under the operation.
A separate federal judge in Minnesota canceled a contempt of court hearing for a lead ICE official, but also noted that the agency has failed to comply with nearly 100 court orders since 1 January.
Trump announced the formation of a new National Fraud Enforcement division of the justice department and nominated a justice department official, Colin McDonald, to lead it as a new assistant attorney general.
Attorney general Pam Bondi has said she is “on the ground in Minneapolis” and that federal agents have arrested 16 demonstrators in Minnesota after alleged assaults on federal law enforcement officers.
Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, laid out Democratic demands for policy changes for ICE, as he pushed for DHS funding to be separated from the other funding bills ahead of a looming shutdown at the end of this week. He also called for DHS secretary Kristi Noem and top Trump aide Stephen Miller to go.
The Ecuadorian government said that an ICE agent attempted to enter its Minneapolis consulate on Tuesday, but was prevented from coming in by staff working at the building.
Bruce Springsteen released a new song in response to what he described as “the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis”.
Marco Rubio has declined to rule out future US military action in Venezuela but insisted the Trump administration did not intend to take such steps, as he faced questions from lawmakers over Washington’s unprecedented intervention.
Trump has said a “massive armada” is heading to Iran and is ready to “fulfil its mission with speed and violence if necessary”.
The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged after its first rate-setting meeting of the year today, resisting enormous pressure from the White House to lower rates.
A new letter from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to six cities cost taxpayers $496m between June and December 2025.
The No Kings Coalition has announced it will hold another mass mobilization event on 28 March, centered around a flagship event in the Twin Cities.

Video appears to show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal law enforcement officers 11 days before he was killed

As Pretti stands back up, what appears to be a gun can be seen in his waistband.

Voting rights advocates say that the FBI’s actions in Fulton County, Georgia today – where the bureau has executed a search warrant for records related to the 2020 election – represent an attempt by the Trump administration “to see what they can get away with elsewhere”.

“We now live in a country where the sitting president attempts to undermine elections when he doesn’t like the results,” said Kristin Nabers, the Georgia state director of All Voting is Local, an organization focused on reducing barriers to voting. “By seizing ballots in Fulton County, the FBI is doing the president’s bidding to placate his delusions about the 2020 election. Six years later, they still can’t come to grips with the fact that they lost, and now they’re willing to tear down the American election system out of pure spite.”

“If they’re allowed to take ballots here, then what would stop them from seizing ballots or voting machines in any future election in a county or state where their preferred candidates lose? The Trump administration’s tactic has been clear from the beginning: If the results don’t go our way, we’re going to make up lies and see what sticks,” she added.

A federal judge in Minnesota has canceled a contempt of court hearing for a lead ICE official, but also noted that the agency has failed to comply with nearly 100 court orders since 1 January.

Chief US district judge Patrick J Schiltz in Minneapolis canceled acting ICE chief Todd Lyons’s appearance after the agency released a wrongly detained Ecuadorean man. At the same time, Schiltz noted that ICE had failed to comply with 96 court orders in 74 cases.

“ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated,” he said in the order.

Here’s a bit more on the third No Kings protest announced today and planned for 28 March.

My colleague Lex McMenamin reports:

A third No Kings protest will be held on 28 March, organizers announced on Wednesday. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said that he expected it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.

Protests will be held nationwide, with a flagship event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – where this month federal immigration agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, amid their escalated operations in the region.

Levin said No Kings 3 was a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. The coalition behind the No Kings protests also hosted a mass mobilization “weekend of action” immediately following Good’s death, which included more than 1,000 protests, vigils and other events. According to recent polling from YouGov, more Americans now support abolishing ICE than oppose it.

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Donald Trump has announced the formation of a new National Fraud Enforcement division of the justice department and has nominated a justice department official, Colin McDonald, to lead it as a new assistant attorney general, in a post on his social media platform.

Trump said he had created the division to “catch and stop FRAUDSTERS that have been STEALING from the American People” and said his administration had “uncovered Fraud schemes in States like Minnesota and California”, both states whose Democratic governors Trump has feuded with.

The nomination, for a new post that will require Senate confirmation, was previewed earlier this month by JD Vance, the vice-president, at a White House news conference. Vance’s announcement attracted attention at the time because he said the new justice department division “will be run out of the White House under the supervision of me and the president of the United States”. Currently, fraud cases are handled by the justice department’s criminal division.

In that 8 January news conference, Vance boasted of what he called the success of the effort to crack down on benefit fraud in Minnesota and said “we also want to expand this”.

He added:

We know that the fraud isn’t just happening in Minneapolis. It’s also happening in states like Ohio. It’s happening in states like California. And so, what we’re doing, in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort from the Trump administration but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible, is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.

Now, of course, that person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way … We’ve never seen fraud like this in the history of our country …

We’re going to make the nomination hopefully in the next few days … But this is the person who is going to make sure that we stop defrauding the American people. Here’s one final thing I’ll say about this. I’ve heard a lot of people say that we need a special council to investigate fraud in the United States of America.

I actually agree and that’s what this position does. It has all the benefits, all the resources, all the authority of a special counsel, but with two crucial differences. Number one, it will be run out of the White House under the supervision of me and the president of the United States. And number two, it’s actually constitutionally legitimate.

As you guys may know, the special counsel statute has some major constitutional questions. When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently and they don’t have some legal technicality they can get out of which is why we set it up as an associate attorney general.

Shortly after she appeared alongside Donald Trump this afternoon, musician Nicki Minaj posted a photograph on social media of her new Trump Gold Card.

Launched in December, the program allows wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m.

An official government webpage promises US residency “in record time” with the new “Trump Gold Card” – once applicants have paid a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), passed a background check and paid up $1m.

We report more on the “gold card” here:

Shrai Popat

Joining Omar in Minneapolis today is Ayanna Pressley, a Democratic congresswoman. The Massachusetts representative repeated the ongoing calls for the impeachment of the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.

“We need to abolish ICE and dispense the systems of oppression that have gotten us to this point,” Presley said.

Shrai Popat

At the Karmel Mall of Somalia in Minneapolis, Representative Ilhan Omar addressed residents and the press a day after she was attacked at a town hall event.

In her opening remarks, the Democratic congresswoman didn’t reference the attack, but condemned the ongoing immigration surge in the Twin Cities.

“We know this not about public safety … It’s political retribution,” she said.

Omar also said the killings of two US citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, were “entirely avoidable”.

“No immigration enforcement agent should ever be allowed to act as a judge, jury and executioner,” she added.

Shrai Popat

Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s “border czar”, is scheduled to hold a press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday, just two days after he arrived in the city and took over the federal immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities from Gregory Bovino.

He’s set to speak to reporters at 7am CT/8am ET.

Federal judge in Minnesota blocks Trump administration from arresting and detaining refugees living in the state

A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining the 5,600 refugees living in the state.

An immigration judge has granted asylum to Chinese national Guan Heng, who secretly filmed human rights abuses at detention facilities in Xinjiang.

Guan, who applied for asylum after entering the United States in 2021, has been in custody since he was picked up during an immigration enforcement operation in August 2025. Despite the judge’s ruling, Guan will remain in custody while the Department of Homeland Security decides whether it will appeal the judge’s ruling, which it has 30 days to do.

The parents of Alexi Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict police officer Derek Chauvin of murder after he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck, killing him.

Pretti’s family has retained Steve Schleicher, a partner at the Minneapolis firm Maslon. Schleicher served as a special prosecutor in the 2021 trial over Floyd’s murder. Schleicher has taken on the case pro bono, PBS News reports.

Earlier this month, the family of Renee Good, who was also killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, retained another lawyer involved in the George Floyd case – the Chicago-based firm Romanucci & Blandin, which represented Floyd’s family.

The No Kings Coalition has announced it will hold another mass mobilization event on 28 March, centered around a flagship event in the Twin Cities.

The coalition, which brought together millions of Americans to protest Donald Trump’s presidency in 2025, launched an “Eyes on ICE” training program earlier this week, to train Americans to safely document federal law enforcement.

“The events in the last few weeks in Minnesota make clear what is at stake in America today,” said the American Federation of Teachers president, Randi Weingarten, one of the leaders of the coalition. “We have a leader who acts like an unbridled king, as opposed to a president who abides by a legal and moral responsibility to the people of our country. Americans are fighting back, peacefully, with signs, whistles and cameras – from thousands in the bitter cold in Minnesota to millions across the country last October. It’s clear that courageous, everyday citizens refuse to be intimidated by our government’s abuse of power.”

US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center – as it happened

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Video appears to show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal law enforcement officers 11 days before he was killed

Federal judge in Minnesota blocks Trump administration from arresting and detaining refugees living in the state

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