Tracy Mumford
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In the last week, since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, thousands of people have been out in the streets in Minneapolis, protesting the killing and the immigration crackdown agents are carrying out there.
At times, protesters have clashed with federal agents.
There are now about 3,000 of them deployed there.
Local and state officials have said that deployment is creating an unsafe situation, with agents shoving people, smashing car windows, and pulling drivers out of their vehicles.
Clear.
When asked about the situation and Trump's threat to use the Insurrection Act, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they had been talking about it, but she said it would be up to Trump to decide what's next.
Now, two other developments on the administration's immigration crackdown.
A federal judge in Boston issued a new rebuke to the administration over its efforts to deport college students who demonstrated against Israel.
Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, called President Trump an authoritarian and said the administration had violated free speech protections when it tried to deport international students who'd been protesting over the war in Gaza.
The administration said it had the authority to do so under an obscure legal provision, claiming the students were a threat to American foreign policy.
But in court yesterday, the judge said the deportation threats were an effort to, quote, twist the laws and pick off prominent activists to intimidate others.
The judge said that next week he plans to issue a final order restricting the administration from deporting members of two academic groups that brought the case.
And he said that going forward, the government will have to show that any deportations are not retaliation.
And what's your reaction to that stunning admission?
I accept their apologies.
And I hope that based on this apology, I'm able to return back to my studies and also to be home with my parents.
The Trump administration has made a rare admission.
It said it made a mistake when it deported a college student who was trying to fly home for Thanksgiving.
Nineteen-year-old Ani Lopez-Beloza, who was brought from Honduras to the U.S.
when she was seven, was on her way to visit family in Texas when immigration agents detained her at the airport in Boston.