New reporting reveals more than 70 children in Minnesota were detained during “Operation Metro Surge” between Dec. 1 and March 10.
"... of the children who were detained, nearly two dozen were held in custody for more than 20 days... At least seven MN children were still detained as of March 10"
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.
But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
Join us April 22 for a fascinating conversation about how international students organize and protest in the face of repression and threats. RSVP: z.umn.edu/IHRC_April22
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For the people in the back 🗣️ Immigrants. Pay. Taxes.
And for the record that’s $651.9 BILLION contributed in 2023.
Immigrants power our economy.
#ImmigrantsAreEssential
Join us Wed. April 22 for Students of Diaspora and the Fight for Justice. This webinar will bring together experts to examine how international, immigrant, and migrant students in the U.S. have organized against repression and restrictions. z.umn.edu/IHRC_April22
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"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program . . . Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure."
The White House is *creating* more homeless vets than they're housing.
My favourite of the courtroom sketches: Trump leaving to the sound of constitutional text, history, and tradition eviscerating his executive order.
PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners."
CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!"
PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters."
CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]
Trump repeatedly referenced Somali residents as a leading factor for sending thousands of federal agents to the Twin Cities in December.
Yet, most Somalis living in Minnesota are here legally, and the new data shows fewer than 3% of those detained during the surge were from Somalia.
Quick and dirty; here's ICE arrests in Minnesota by criminality, from October 2025 to early March 2026. Note the MASSIVE spike in arrests of people with no criminal record
/"convicted criminal" means any conviction no matter how minor. "Other immigration violator" means no known criminal record.
Donald Trump, Jr.'s VC firm invested in a startup that produces rare-earth magnets for military equipment.
Months later, the Pentagon awarded the company a $620M loan.
Remember that Don Jr. also has a stake in a drone company that recently received defense contracts.
Coincidence? Or corruption?
They fired countless specialists at State and top military personnel. They got rid of the intelligent people who might oppose this. They kicked out troops because they’re black, women, trans, gay… who is planning and fighting this clusterfuck?
In which a University of Minnesota law professor claims to understand the Supreme Court’s decision in Wong Kim Ark (guaranteeing birthright citizenship) better than Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson
www.reuters.com/world/us/sup...
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We Had to Run: Liberian Journeys from War to Belonging. Join us for a book talk with UMN grad student author Darlington Sehgbean. Tues April14 at 12:30. cla.umn.edu/human-rights...
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This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.
A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
Book talk with Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands. Towle aims to expose the human cost of U.S Immigration policy through storytelling, memoir and history. Join us THIS THURSDAY 3pm Central at the UMN Law School.
This event is free and open to the public.
NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
Join the IHRC and @iehs.bsky.social for a fascinating online discussion: The Founding of the US and Immigration History on March 31 at 3:30 Central. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/USandImmHistory
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Greg Bovino wanted to deport 100 million people -- a quarter of the U.S. population.
Oh, and DHS's X account is onboard.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
Congratulations!
A father of six who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. troops in Afghanistan died just hours after he was detained by ICE.
Univ of MN students, are you studying any aspect of migration? You still have time to apply for IHRC academic year and summer fellowships. More info at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/fellows...
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Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who had a green card, was arrested during his citizenship interview... “Is this a trap?” he recalled thinking, after USCIS called him in for an appt; masked ICE agents took him away just after he’d signed the Pledge of Allegiance.
You still have time to register for an online conversation about Intersections in Indigenous and Immigration Histories, Monday Feb 23. Hear from experts Elizabeth Ellis, Hana Maruyama, Fantasia Painter, Jorge Ramirez-Lopez and David Chang. z.umn.edu/IHRCIntersections
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IHRC was fortunate to host @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social in December and he discussed his collab with Bad Bunny. Here is his op ed on Benito's amazing historic Superbowl halftime show www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who has been an advisor to Bad Bunny, is on Bluesky. He wrote about the half-time show, in advance of the Super Bowl, for the L.A. Times.
Follow: @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
