Eric Umansky

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The biggest challenge to Minnesota's effort to halt "Operation Metro Surge" is a law passed during the Clinton administration which strips jurisdiction from federal judges to "enjoin or restrain the operation" of laws relating to immigration arrests, detention, and removal.

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.

My story. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Adams Aide Who Acted as ICE Liaison Is Set to Join Trump Administration

Last year, I reported on a problematic NYPD unit led by a particularly problematic commander.

The commander once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.

Well, that commander, Kaz Daughtry, has a new job.

He now works for Trump's DHS.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/n...

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence.

He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Update from Hamed Aleaziz

"John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. 'I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,' he wrote" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

I've been thinking about how many videos I've watched that started like Renee Good's & Alex Pretti's. People pulled from cars & accused of obstruction, grabbed after filming agents, accused of punching agents, ramming cars despite video evidence. Shot.

They survived. But the arrests were brutal

I know this isn’t quite the point. But this must in HoF for goyishe names.

Minnesota Star Tribune.

And a rundown of their latest on the crackdown: bit.ly/4pXDlDC

It’s worth keeping in mind what the admin ^does after they’ve shot someone*

They’ve tried kick local police out of the are/. Killing police’s ability to investigate

And they’ve made sure their officers aren’t wearing body cams—that can be vital for evidence

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Too big to speak.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Apart from anything else there are no penguins in Greenland. Unless he’s invading the South Pole too….

"Woman from Texas" FTW.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philly...which is a memorial to those enslaved by George Washington while he lived here.

Gift link:

How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump” Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...

The DOJ spent eight years working a criminal case against a bitcoin bro for crypto tax evasion

Then Trump returned to office —and killed it.

Trump loyalists took the case over from career prosecutors

Oh and guy’s lawyer just happened to defend Trump re Jan 6.

www.propublica.org/article/bitc...

My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade.

Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.

#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis

People are dying in ICE detention at highest rate in decades.

Including three since August at a new camp in Texas.

ICE is blocking attempts to get answers. They haven't let lawmakers visit.

Quote -> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

Chart -> www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune

Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.

Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

Minneapolis, today.

Note how three agents holding the civilian down.

Why spray?

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Very good point by @radleybalko.bsky.social:

Police have long lied after killing civilians -- ICE is going far beyond that. The lies aren't really a cover-up -- the evidence is already out there. They're a flex.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Oh, he valued it properly!

Deep cut gif!

‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

"An agent came to my side and said, "You are under arrest." I just held my hands in the air and I waited for instruction... At one point, one said to my friend: “You need to stop. You need to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead.”

www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

Is “taming” really the best description of what Trump is doing to universities?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

So the admin is “re-vetting” refugees.

These are people who are legally in the U.S. — *after extensive vetting.*

The Trump admin has said it will only “re-vet” those admitted during Biden administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...