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- Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the proposed level of cooperation between Minnesota county sheriffs and ICE is a violation of state law.
- Fridley and Duluth schools, along with the state teachers union, are suing the Trump administration to keep federal immigration agents off school property.
- With the immediate removal of 700 federal agents from Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan put the total number of agents remaining in the state at approximately 2,000. That’s still a dramatic increase from the normal immigration and enforcement staffing in Minnesota of around 150 agents.
- A Columbia Heights fourth-grader and her mother will soon be released from a Texas detention facility, the district superintendent said. This is the same school district as 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who has become one of the most famous examples of a child caught up in Operation Metro Surge.
- The head of the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association and border czar Tom Homan are negotiating a deal for county jails to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
- A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
- Renee Good's brothers sat before a group of U.S. senators and representatives on Tuesday afternoon and asked for their help. Their testimony was part of a public forum held by Congressional Democrats. Video: Sen. Richard Blumenthal livestream via Facebook.
- Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
- In the entryway of a cramped two-bedroom house in Shakopee, a pair of pink backpacks idle on coat hooks. The two girls haven’t been to school in weeks.
- Another eight federal prosecutors have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
