Ice Incidents
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5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility
Perspective:
Dr. Liora Vega
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, have been released following a judge’s order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro. The two were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20.
Protesters demand immigration agents leave Minneapolis after man is shot and killed during crackdown
Perspective:
Anya Seraphine
Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and increasing tensions in a city already shaken by another shooting death weeks earlier. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse
Counterprotesters chase off conservative influencer amid Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Perspective:
Buck Harrington
Hundreds of counterprotesters have drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Attention seeking continues beyond the pale.
Woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis was a mother of 3 and a poet
Perspective:
Dr. Liora Vega
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was an avid writer, a proud mother and a hobby guitarist who won an undergraduate poetry prize in 2020, online records show.