Immigration and Emigration

• Surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to Brink - Remarks by a prosecutor opened a revealing window onto how the courts in the state are buckling under the weight of a deluge of cases arising from the Trump administration’s campaign.
• Educators Sue to Keep Immigration Agents From Schools and Bus Stops - The lawsuit is challenging a Trump administration policy allowing federal agents near locations such as schools, churches and hospitals.
• A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children - “It’s like living in fear all the time,” a teenager said about the federal raids that have shattered families.
• Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign - A policy intended to keep immigrants detained indefinitely has led to a deluge of lawsuits, overwhelming some federal courts and resulting in many releases.
• ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants - An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.
• Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics Across Cities - Many police departments adopted major changes after civilian killings. Now, police chiefs worry ICE is ignoring those lessons and setting back efforts to improve public trust.
• How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis - Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis.
• Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil - As officials point fingers in the wake of Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of federal agents, concerns grow about the agency’s future.
• Trump and Schumer Move Toward Possible Deal to Avert a Shutdown - The president and the top Senate Democrat were discussing an agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents.
• Trump Officials’ Use of ‘Domestic Terrorist’ in Minnesota Shootings Doesn’t Match Legal Reality - The Trump administration has used the term as a cudgel against political adversaries, especially this month to defend immigration officers who had killed two protesters in Minneapolis.