Minnesota

• ‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo - President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery that has been manipulated by A.I. But the photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong was different.
• Can Tom Homan De-escalate ICE Tensions in Minnesota? - The White House border czar wants to focus more on getting immigrants already in jails. He’ll have to persuade Democrats to do it.
• ICE Is a ‘Secret Police’ Americans Didn’t Ask For - Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
• Federal Judge Denies Request to Block ICE Surge in Minnesota - Local officials had argued that the decision to send some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota amounted to a violation of state sovereignty.
• ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say. - Letters from students living in fear.
• 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.
• F.B.I. Search in Georgia Shows Trump’s Willingness to Pursue 2020 Grievances - The search might also be a harbinger of things to come, signaling the president’s disposition to use the powers of law enforcement to intervene in election matters as the 2026 midterms approach.
• Masked agents, face scans and a question: Are you a citizen? Inside Trump’s Minnesota crackdown - Luis Martinez was on his way to work on a frigid Minneapolis morning when federal agents suddenly boxed him in, forcing the SUV he was driving to a dead stop in the middle of the street. Masked agents rapped on the window, demanding Martin
• America at a Boiling Point: From ICE Protests to an Attack on Rep. Omar - An attack at a town hall in Minneapolis, amid a surge in threats against lawmakers, was the latest sign of the fraying of the nation’s political fabric.