Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell offered video evidence to refute DHS claims, suggesting it’s spreading “pure propaganda.”
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Thousands of new ICE agents are on patrol. Are they sufficiently trained?
The Department of Homeland Security hired more than 12,000 agents in the past year, faster than any other recruitment effort in its history.
January 22, 2026
Border Patrol’s Greg Bovino seen lobbing smoke canister as agents use chemicals in Minneapolis
At 28th and Blaisdell, a Minnesota Star Tribune photographer captured a close-up of federal agents spraying an irritant in a person’s face. Around the same time, Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino was captured on video tossing a smoke canister.
January 22, 2026
Law firm’s independent autopsy details Renee Good’s injuries
The results are similar to details included in first responder reports released last week.
January 22, 2026
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detention of a Columbia Heights 5-year-old comes after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities schools’ property.
January 22, 2026
Tracking on-the-ground movements of Cmdr. Greg Bovino, public face of ICE crackdown in Twin Cities
He was there minutes after Renee Good was shot, on the scene of arrests and in Target to use a bathroom.
January 22, 2026
Minnesota braces for 'another level of cold'
To go with it, a blizzard warning was in effect until 7 p.m. Wednesday in southwestern Minnesota, the Weather Service said.
January 21, 2026
Family recounts being caught in unrest after man is shot by federal agent
The family’s 6-month-old baby was unconscious and foaming at the mouth after federal agents threw tear gas and flash-bangs under their SUV, according to the child’s parents.
January 21, 2026
Former broadcaster Michele Tafoya launches Senate bid in Minnesota
She is running as a Republican and looks to win the seat held by Democrat Tina Smith, who is not seeking re-election.
January 21, 2026
Minnesota refugees with legal status being detained in sweeping operation
A federal operation launched on Jan. 9 focuses on refugees while a concurrent effort is detaining people who entered the country illegally. Both target Minnesota.
January 21, 2026
Editor's Pick
The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found.
The federal government has identified only a fraction of the immigrants it has detained. Many have violent criminal records, but few were wanted by police.
January 21, 2026
Minnesotans and ICE alike brace for subzero cold snap
Cold as ICE: There is such a thing as bad weather, and Minnesota has the forecast to prove it.
January 21, 2026
St. Paul church considers legal action against anti-ICE activists who disrupted service
A pastor at the church is the acting director of ICE’s field office in St. Paul.
January 20, 2026
