The Trump administration claims they are targeting criminal migrants in Minnesota. Local reporting shows U.S. citizens and legal immigrants are being detained.
The Trump administration has ordered thousands of federal agents to Minnesota amid backlash and protests after an ICE agent killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good. President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against protestors and declared that “the day of reckoning & retribution is coming” to Minnesota.
While Trump administration officials have claimed the operation is targeting “criminal alien[s],” local news outlets have reported that U.S. citizens and legal immigrants have been detained by federal agents.
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