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Federal efforts to enforce immigration laws, including ICE operations and raids.
Sanctuary cities adopt local policies that limit how much municipal and state agencies assist federal immigration enforcement, principally by restricting information‑sharing and refusing to honor many...
The federal government cannot commandeer state and local officers to carry out federal immigration enforcement because of the Tenth Amendment and the Supreme Court’s anti‑commandeering decisions, but ...
Minneapolis is not under foreign occupation or martial law, but it is experiencing an exceptionally large surge of federal immigration agents — reported at roughly 3,000 — whose presence, tactics and ...
Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026; video, witness accounts, and local leaders describe the killing as unjustified and many protesters a...
The FBI has publicly been reported to be investigating whether Renee Nicole Good had “possible connections” to activist groups that monitor and protest federal immigration enforcement, while simultane...
Since 2025, Minneapolis has layered city-level rules, executive directives and departmental policy changes designed to erect a “firewall” between local policing and federal immigration enforcement—mos...
Minneapolis city officials published a public protest update urging peaceful demonstrations and describing crowd behavior on Jan. 17, 2026, while the Minneapolis Police Department told a national outl...
Evidence from academic reviews and national datasets finds little to no link between sanctuary policies and higher crime rates, and several studies show these policies can increase crime reporting by ...
Available reporting shows that independent documentation—video footage or court records—exists for some high-profile shootings by ICE and Border Patrol since 2017, but no source in the provided report...
There is ample, contemporaneous reporting on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis — which includes a 47‑second cellphone video published by Alpha News and reposted by DHS showing the officer’s perspective ...
Federal immigration enforcement rests largely on statutory law enacted by Congress—principally the Immigration and Nationality Act codified in Title 8 of the U.S. Code—and on implementing regulations ...