https://www.scmp.com/rss/523097/feed The latest news and top stories on ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.) A prominent US federal law enforcement agency, ICE is headquartered in Washington DC, with over 400 global offices. Operating under the Department of Homeland Security, its primary mission is to protect the United States from transnational crime and illegal immigration, safeguarding national security and public safety. ICE’s main activities include enforcing immigration laws, detaining and removing unauthorised... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan After avoiding much of the churn, firings and senior official turnover that marked his first term, US President Donald Trump on Thursday added to the string of high-profile departures in recent days, as bad news heaped more pressure on the White House. The administration announced that US Attorney General Pam Bondi was leaving to be replaced by her deputy, Todd Blanche, in an acting capacity. “We love Pam,” Trump wrote on social media. “She will be transitioning to a much-needed and important... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348858/trump-fires-pam-bondi-us-attorney-general-amid-epstein-files-furore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348858/trump-fires-pam-bondi-us-attorney-general-amid-epstein-files-furore?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:20:46 +0000 Reuters Reuters Minnesota sued ⁠the federal government on Tuesday, seeking ⁠access to evidence in the fatal shootings by federal officers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and a shooting that injured another man during an immigration enforcement surge in the state, according to a complaint. The lawsuit against the US Department of ‌Justice and the Department of Homeland Security alleges authorities blocked state investigators from key evidence and information related to the shootings. In late January, following the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347770/minnesota-sues-government-access-evidence-3-shooting-deaths-federal-officers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347770/minnesota-sues-government-access-evidence-3-shooting-deaths-federal-officers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:44:50 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge on Monday blocked US President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing a new policy that would subject thousands of refugees to arrest and detention if after a year in the United States they had yet to obtain green ‌cards. US District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston acted at the request of six refugees and two advocacy groups who argued the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy was an unlawful departure from decades of practice. The plaintiffs alleged the policy... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347643/us-district-judge-blocks-trump-administration-detaining-thousands-refugees?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347643/us-district-judge-blocks-trump-administration-detaining-thousands-refugees?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:40:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters Absences among transportation security ⁠workers this weekend reached their highest since a partial US government shutdown began five weeks ago, the Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday, while immigration enforcement agents prepared to fill in for them at some of the busiest US airports. At airports in Houston, New York and Atlanta, more than one-third of Transportation Security Administration staff were calling in sick or otherwise absent, DHS said, as the shutdown left tens of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347514/trump-administration-touts-plan-ice-airports-amid-criticism-union-democrats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347514/trump-administration-touts-plan-ice-airports-amid-criticism-union-democrats?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:19:27 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump ⁠on Saturday threatened to ⁠deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement ⁠agents to US airports if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety. “I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one ‌has ever seen before,” Trump wrote in a social media post. Transportation Security Administration personnel are set to miss a second full pay cheque on March 27 amid a partial government shutdown... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347448/trump-threatens-put-ice-agents-airports-amid-tsa-funding-clash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347448/trump-threatens-put-ice-agents-airports-amid-tsa-funding-clash?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:27:05 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A US federal appeal court allowed the Trump administration on Monday to temporarily resume summarily deporting undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in a 2-1 vote, lifted a block on the so-called third-country deportations that had been imposed by a lower court. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled last month that third-country deportations were unlawful but put his ruling on hold to allow the government time to file an appeal. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346805/trump-administration-can-resume-third-country-deportations-appeal-court-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346805/trump-administration-can-resume-third-country-deportations-appeal-court-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:35:10 +0000 Reuters Reuters An Afghan immigrant who previously worked with the US military in Afghanistan and later sought asylum in the United States died this weekend in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody less than 24 hours after ‌being detained in Texas, a US veteran-led advocacy group said on Sunday. Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, who was living in a Dallas suburb with his wife and six children while his asylum case remained pending, was arrested by federal agents outside his flat on Friday morning while... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346691/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-ice-custody-us-advocacy-group-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346691/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-ice-custody-us-advocacy-group-says?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:27:44 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump ⁠fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday after months of controversy, including the fatal ⁠shootings of two US citizens by federal officers in Minneapolis and lawmakers’ questions over a US$220 million advertising contract. The Republican president will tap Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace her by the end of the month, he said on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. The appointment would require US Senate confirmation. “Kristi Noem, who... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345631/trump-says-kristi-noem-out-homeland-security-chief-amid-immigration-uproar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345631/trump-says-kristi-noem-out-homeland-security-chief-amid-immigration-uproar?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:04:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of US Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, according to city authorities on Wednesday. Police officers in the upstate New York city located the body of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, on Tuesday evening, the Buffalo Police Department said. Shah Alam had been missing since February 19, when US Border Patrol agents dropped ‌him off at a coffee shop miles from his home following his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344687/near-blind-rohingya-refugee-found-dead-after-us-border-agents-release-him-out-cold?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344687/near-blind-rohingya-refugee-found-dead-after-us-border-agents-release-him-out-cold?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:38:25 +0000 Reuters Reuters US Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin will leave the administration, an agency spokesperson said, a move that comes as public support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has dwindled. McLaughlin became a prominent booster of ‌the Republican president’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and headed the press operation at DHS, which has come under scrutiny for issuing inaccurate or incomplete statements following violent encounters involving... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343848/top-trump-homeland-security-spokeswoman-leaving-amid-backlash-over-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343848/top-trump-homeland-security-spokeswoman-leaving-amid-backlash-over-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:53:11 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service A Filipino man awaiting the result of a deportation order has been released from Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Centre following a federal court order that called the man’s detention unconstitutionally “punitive”. US District Judge Tana Lin granted the release requested in Greggy Sorio’s habeas corpus petition on Friday, saying the Tacoma detention centre’s “unreasonable treatment” of Sorio brought about “extreme consequences” for his health. While in Immigration and Customs Enforcement... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343654/ice-releases-detained-filipino-after-unreasonable-failures-care?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343654/ice-releases-detained-filipino-after-unreasonable-failures-care?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:28:20 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press White House border tsar Tom Homan said on Sunday that more than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge. A “small” security force will stay for a short period to protect remaining immigration agents and will respond “when our agents are out and they get surrounded by agitators and things got out of control”, Homan told CBS’ Face the Nation.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343653/trumps-border-tsar-homan-says-small-security-force-will-remain-minnesota?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343653/trumps-border-tsar-homan-says-small-security-force-will-remain-minnesota?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:00:33 +0000 Mark Magnier Mark Magnier The US Government experienced its second shutdown in four months on Saturday, as funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) halted, underscoring Washington’s growing partisanship and dysfunction. But in an ironic twist, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, at the centre of the Congressional showdown, will continue to operate despite being part of DHS, given its independent source of funding. In an unprecedented move, US President Donald Trump’s administration has allocated at... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3343562/partial-us-government-shutdown-throws-congress-turmoil-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3343562/partial-us-government-shutdown-throws-congress-turmoil-again?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:00:09 +0000 Reuters Reuters Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is due in federal court in Minnesota on Friday to enter a plea in a criminal case stemming from his coverage of a protest at a church against US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lemon, now an independent journalist, livestreamed a protest against Trump’s deployment of ‌thousands of armed immigration agents into Democratic-governed Minnesota’s biggest cities. The protest disrupted a January 18 service at Cities Church in St Paul. He was charged with... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343520/us-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-enter-plea-minnesota-ice-protest-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343520/us-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-enter-plea-minnesota-ice-protest-case?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:24:01 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump’s point man on Thursday announced the end of an aggressive immigration operation in Minnesota that triggered large protests and nationwide outrage following the killing of two US citizens. Thousands of federal agents including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducted weeks of sweeping raids and arrests in what the administration claims were targeted missions against criminals. “I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343372/trump-end-minnesota-immigration-crackdown-border-tsar-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343372/trump-end-minnesota-immigration-crackdown-border-tsar-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:09:26 +0000 Reuters Reuters Wearing no trousers, with his tongue sticking out and dancing with ‌the Statue of Liberty, the figure of US President Donald Trump ‍will feature at a German carnival celebration as one of the traditionally satirical and provocative floats. Organisers showcased the various figures in the city of Mainz in western Germany on ⁠Tuesday. They also included Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a sinking boat, with his conservative predecessor and erstwhile rival, Angela Merkel, spearing the boat with... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3343108/trumps-cheeky-dance-statue-liberty-headline-german-carnival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3343108/trumps-cheeky-dance-statue-liberty-headline-german-carnival?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:04:14 +0000 Agencies Agencies US President Donald Trump criticised American Olympic ‌skier Hunter Hess as a “real loser” on Sunday, days after the athlete expressed ‍mixed feelings about representing the United States at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy. Freestyle skier Hess was asked at a press conference on Wednesday how he felt about representing America at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, given acute US tension over violent immigration raids and other political crises. “There’s obviously a lot going on... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3342857/trump-insults-us-olympic-skier-hunter-hess-calling-freestyler-real-loser?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3342857/trump-insults-us-olympic-skier-hunter-hess-calling-freestyler-real-loser?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:27:26 +0000 Aidan Jones Aidan Jones The tattoo on his arm reads “buc Lao” (Laos boy) but Kham Paneboun is not a Laotian citizen. In fact, he’s not really from anywhere. In February last year, US Homeland Security detained him for a felony committed as a teenager, revoked his work permit and – after decades of legal residence – deported him to Laos, a country he had never set foot in. Kham, 43, was torn from his wife and four children, aged three to 12, who remain in Texas – a family now paying for a “bad mistake” he made in his... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3342712/southeast-asian-refugees-cast-out-trumps-us-face-exile-unknown-lands?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3342712/southeast-asian-refugees-cast-out-trumps-us-face-exile-unknown-lands?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration officers in Minnesota but will continue its enforcement operation that has sparked weeks of tensions and deadly confrontations, border tsar Tom Homan said on Wednesday. About 700 federal officers – roughly a quarter of the total deployed to Minnesota – will be withdrawn immediately after state and local officials agreed over the past week to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, Homan said. But he did not provide a timeline... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342419/trump-border-tsar-says-700-immigration-officers-leave-minnesota-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342419/trump-border-tsar-says-700-immigration-officers-leave-minnesota-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:49:45 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump signed a roughly US$1.2 trillion government funding bill Tuesday that ends the partial federal shutdown that began over the weekend and sets the stage for an intense debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding. The president moved quickly to sign the bill after the House approved it with a 217-214 vote. “This bill is a great victory for the American people,” Trump said. The vote on Tuesday wrapped up congressional work on 11 annual appropriations bills that fund... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342294/us-shutdown-track-end-house-approves-trump-funding-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342294/us-shutdown-track-end-house-approves-trump-funding-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:02:25 +0000 Reuters Reuters Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp defended the firm’s surveillance technology as it reported a big jump in sales on Monday, ‍saying it has safeguards to prevent government overreach, without mentioning US immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota that have drawn widespread protests. The data analytics company said revenue derived from the US government spiked 66 per cent in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period to US$570 million. Total sales of US$1.41 billion exceeded analysts’... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342195/palantir-defends-surveillance-tech-us-government-contracts-boost-sales?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342195/palantir-defends-surveillance-tech-us-government-contracts-boost-sales?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:04:49 +0000 Reuters Reuters Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have returned to their home in a Minneapolis suburb after ‍being detained by US immigration officers and held at a detention facility in Texas, a lawmaker said on Sunday. A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his son, whom immigration officers detained during a Minnesota raid. US Congressman Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, wrote in ⁠a social media post that he picked them up on Saturday night at the detention... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342022/5-year-old-liam-conejo-ramos-and-father-return-minnesota-texas-ice-centre?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342022/5-year-old-liam-conejo-ramos-and-father-return-minnesota-texas-ice-centre?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:11:45 +0000 Reuters Reuters French IT company Capgemini will sell its US ‌subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, it said on Sunday, after coming ‍under pressure to explain a contract the latter signed with US immigration enforcement agency ICE. French lawmakers, including Finance Minister Roland Lescure, had asked the company to shed light on the contract amid concern over the tactics used by ICE agents following the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minnesota last month. “Capgemini considered that the usual legal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342006/frances-capgemini-sell-us-subsidiary-under-pressure-ice-contract?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342006/frances-capgemini-sell-us-subsidiary-under-pressure-ice-contract?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:52:11 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A five-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas centre where they have been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticised US President Donald Trump’s administration’s approach to enforcement. Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights on January... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341971/us-must-release-5-year-old-bunny-hat-boy-detained-ice-judge-orders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341971/us-must-release-5-year-old-bunny-hat-boy-detained-ice-judge-orders?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:44:17 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers on January 24, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday. “We’re looking at everything that would shed light on what happened that day and in the days and weeks leading up to what happened,” Blanche said during a news conference. Blanche did not explain why the DOJ decided to open an investigation into Pretti’s killing,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:38:32 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested after he entered a Minnesota church and recorded anti-immigration enforcement protesters who disrupted a service in an incident that increased tensions between residents and the Trump administration, his lawyer said on Friday. Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, Abbe Lowell said. It is unclear what charge or charges Lemon is facing in the January 18 protest. The arrest came... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341887/trump-doj-arrests-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-after-judge-initially-rejected-church-protest-charges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341887/trump-doj-arrests-ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-after-judge-initially-rejected-church-protest-charges?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:30:02 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Senate leaders were scrambling to save a bipartisan spending deal and avert a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday as Democrats have demanded new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. Democrats struck a rare deal with US President Donald Trump Thursday to separate funding for the Homeland Security Department from a broad government spending bill and fund it for two weeks while Congress debates curbs on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341750/trump-seeks-avoid-shutdown-democrats-block-funding-demand-ice-curbs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341750/trump-seeks-avoid-shutdown-democrats-block-funding-demand-ice-curbs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:32:42 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota could be reduced, but only if state and local officials cooperate, US President Donald Trump’s border tsar said on Thursday, noting he had “zero tolerance” for protesters who assault federal officers or impede the ongoing operation in the Twin Cities. Tom Homan addressed reporters for the first time since the president sent him to Minneapolis following last weekend’s fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti. The news conference comes... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341736/trumps-border-tsar-links-minnesota-ice-drawdown-state-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341736/trumps-border-tsar-links-minnesota-ice-drawdown-state-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:17:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, releasing tracks featuring searing criticism of Donald Trump and paying homage to Minneapolis residents killed this month by federal immigration agents. More than 80 years after folk icon Guthrie scrawled “This Machine Kills Fascists” on his guitar, his musical heirs are savaging President Donald Trump on his immigration crackdown, his renamed Department of War, the United... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341677/how-ice-agents-are-facing-musical-backlash-new-generation-protest-singers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3341677/how-ice-agents-are-facing-musical-backlash-new-generation-protest-singers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:15:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Senator Amy Klobuchar said on Thursday she is running for governor of Minnesota, promising to take on US President Donald Trump while unifying a state that has endured a series of challenges even before the federal government’s immigration crackdown. Klobuchar’s decision gives Democrats a high-profile candidate and proven statewide winner as their party tries to hold onto the office occupied by Governor Tim Walz. The 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Walz abandoned his campaign for a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341729/trump-critic-klobuchar-enters-minnesota-governor-race-amid-ice-crackdown-fraud-scandals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341729/trump-critic-klobuchar-enters-minnesota-governor-race-amid-ice-crackdown-fraud-scandals?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:57:01 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun to break out across American culture, spanning the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. Bruce Springsteen released a new song on Wednesday that slammed “Trump’s federal thugs”. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told employees that “what’s happening with ICE is going too far”, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And lifestyle icon Martha Stewart... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:02:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticising US President Donald Trump’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city. The lyrics of “Streets of Minneapolis”, released Wednesday, describe how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots”, which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army”. Springsteen in a statement said he wrote and recorded the song over the weekend and released it in response to a second deadly shooting by... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341609/bruce-springsteen-sings-out-against-king-trumps-private-army-new-song?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341609/bruce-springsteen-sings-out-against-king-trumps-private-army-new-song?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:23:24 +0000 Thomas O. Falk Thomas O. Falk America has endured intense political polarisation before. What it has not faced is a presidency that has transformed a federal law-enforcement agency into a potential instrument of political power. During Donald Trump’s second term as president, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) risks becoming just that. Created after 9/11 as a specialised arm of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE was meant to enforce immigration laws and combat transnational criminal networks. Its annual... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3341509/ice-fatal-shootings-raise-fear-over-trumps-use-federal-authority?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3341509/ice-fatal-shootings-raise-fear-over-trumps-use-federal-authority?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:30:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The man accused of squirting an unknown substance on Democratic US congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis has a criminal history and has made online posts supportive of US President Donald Trump. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was convicted of felony vehicle theft in 1989, has been arrested multiple times for driving under the influence and has had numerous traffic citations, Minnesota court records show. There are also indications he has had significant financial problems, including... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341599/ilhan-omar-attack-suspect-kazmierczak-convicted-felon-who-made-pro-trump-posts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341599/ilhan-omar-attack-suspect-kazmierczak-convicted-felon-who-made-pro-trump-posts?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:45:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The Trump administration said on Wednesday that two immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis had been placed on leave, as the US president slammed the city’s mayor despite a promise to de-escalate the situation. The officers have been on leave - a move US officials said was “standard protocol” - since Saturday, when Alex Pretti was shot multiple times after being forced to the ground by camouflaged officers in a scuffle captured on video. US President Donald... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341597/us-agents-who-shot-minneapolis-man-alex-pretti-placed-leave?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341597/us-agents-who-shot-minneapolis-man-alex-pretti-placed-leave?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Two federal officers fired their weapons during the fatal weekend shooting of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report to Congress published on Tuesday by US media. The shooting sparked bipartisan condemnation and fresh protests in Minneapolis, and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for an “honourable and honest investigation” into the matter. He also suggested he would “de-escalate a little bit” the administration’s immigration... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341559/alex-pretti-shot-2-different-federal-agents-minnesota-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341559/alex-pretti-shot-2-different-federal-agents-minnesota-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:17:36 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man identified as Anthony Kazmierczak was arrested by police after an attack on Democratic US congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Tuesday saw her sprayed with an unknown substance. The incident came during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions with the federal government have come to a head after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deployed by US President Donald Trump fatally shot both an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month. Footage from the town hall incident... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341477/us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-sprayed-unknown-substance-minneapolis-town-hall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341477/us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-sprayed-unknown-substance-minneapolis-town-hall?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:12:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, met with the Minneapolis mayor and the Minnesota governor on Tuesday in a show of detente, as the ‌White House sought to ease unrest gripping the city after two US citizens were shot dead by federal agents. Homan was put in charge of the Minneapolis immigration enforcement drive to replace US Border Patrol “commander at large” ‍Gregory Bovino, who sources said was being demoted and removed after having overseen most of Trump’s crackdowns in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341470/trump-says-will-de-escalate-little-bit-minneapolis-amid-outcry-over-killings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341470/trump-says-will-de-escalate-little-bit-minneapolis-amid-outcry-over-killings?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:30:58 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a human trafficking suspect who fired on a federal government helicopter in Arizona ‍on Tuesday and later engaged in a shoot-out with the agent, officials said. The suspect, a fugitive who had escaped from a halfway house related to a previous smuggling conviction, was in a serious but stable condition after undergoing surgery, the Pima County sheriff and FBI told a news conference. The incident near the Mexican border occurred ⁠amid heightened tensions... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341468/person-critical-after-being-shot-border-patrol-incident-arizona?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341468/person-critical-after-being-shot-border-patrol-incident-arizona?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:34:45 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to appear before him on Friday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt. In an order dated Monday, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, must appear personally in court. Schlitz took the administration to task over its handling of bond hearings for... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341457/judge-orders-ice-chief-minnesota-court-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341457/judge-orders-ice-chief-minnesota-court-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:20:52 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A branch of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will help with security for the Winter Olympics in Italy, it confirmed on Tuesday, sparking anger and warnings they were not welcome. Reports had been circulating for days that the agency embroiled in an often brutal immigration crackdown in the United States could be involved in US security measures for the February 6-22 Games in northern Italy. In a statement overnight, ICE said: “At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341436/ice-agents-get-security-role-2026-winter-olympics-sparking-outrage-after-deadly-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341436/ice-agents-get-security-role-2026-winter-olympics-sparking-outrage-after-deadly-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:40:40 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterisation of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon. The death produced no clear shifts in US gun politics or policies, even as US President Donald Trump shuffles the lieutenants in charge of his militarised immigration crackdown. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341413/trump-faces-second-amendment-backlash-over-ice-shooting-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341413/trump-faces-second-amendment-backlash-over-ice-shooting-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:35:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:52:40 +0000 Reuters Reuters The White House said on Monday that US President Donald Trump does not ‌want to see people getting hurt or killed on the streets ‍of the United States but will not back down from efforts to deport “violent criminal illegal aliens” from Minnesota. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed journalists after the killing of 37-year-old nurse Alex ⁠Pretti on Saturday by federal officers drew outrage from Americans. It was the second fatal shooting of a US citizen in Minnesota this... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341312/trump-does-not-want-see-people-killed-us-streets-white-house-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341312/trump-does-not-want-see-people-killed-us-streets-white-house-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:30:45 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump announced on Monday he is sending a top official to Minnesota as outrage grew over his administration’s militarised immigration raids and the shooting dead of a second protester in Minneapolis. Trump said that Tom Homan, his point man for border security, would arrive in the state later and “will report directly to me”. The high-profile assignment suggested that the 79-year-old Republican president is seeking to regain control over a rapidly deteriorating political and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341302/trump-sends-border-tsar-homan-minnesota-after-second-fatal-ice-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341302/trump-sends-border-tsar-homan-minnesota-after-second-fatal-ice-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:51:25 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls on Sunday for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic “chaos”. The Trump administration has faced intensifying pressure over its mass immigration crackdown, particularly after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Saturday while scuffling with him on an icy roadway. That... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:59:22 +0000 Reuters Reuters When Fabiola, a single mother and naturalised US citizen from Latin America, first learned of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, ‌she said she was heartbroken and terrified. Then she joined the thousands of other Minnesotans who have volunteered to track ICE agents since Good was killed, despite her fears for herself and her son Asher, who is seven. “I ‍do feel scared, but at the same time, I know I have to take care of my people too,” she... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341136/minneapolis-resistance-ice-hardens-after-agents-kill-another-us-citizen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341136/minneapolis-resistance-ice-hardens-after-agents-kill-another-us-citizen?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:25:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A US immigration officer shot and killed a man on Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier. Family members identified the man who was killed as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who had protested against US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city. After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and protesters clashed with federal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341132/us-federal-officers-shot-another-person-minneapolis-amid-trump-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341132/us-federal-officers-shot-another-person-minneapolis-amid-trump-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:50:59 +0000 The Korea Times The Korea Times For the Korean American community, the first year of US President Donald Trump’s return to power has been defined by a sense of “pure fear”. According to Kim Dong-seok, head of the non-profit Korean American Grassroots Conference (KAGC), the institutional tolerance that once protected immigrants has vanished, replaced by a political environment that views non-citizens with a presumption of criminality. “Even though the US government says it distinguishes between lawful and unlawful immigrants,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3340542/korean-americans-face-pure-fear-under-trumps-immigration-policies-activist-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3340542/korean-americans-face-pure-fear-under-trumps-immigration-policies-activist-says?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:51:22 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A federal appeal panel on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration prison, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist. A three-judge panel of the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeal in Philadelphia did not decide the key issue in Khalil’s case: whether the Trump administration’s effort to throw Khalil out of the US over his campus activism and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340063/trump-administration-wins-appeal-deport-mahmoud-khalil-freed-pro-palestinian-activist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340063/trump-administration-wins-appeal-deport-mahmoud-khalil-freed-pro-palestinian-activist?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:10 +0000