cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42561306
Jan. 31, 2026
According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, concern over ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.
CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for deportation.
It’s like how gas stations and smoke shops have “tabacco” pipes that are for “tobacco use only” and you absolutely can’t use them to smoke anything else with, only tobacco.