The Trump administration is deploying around 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis as part of an immigration crackdown on the heels of a welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota, according to two law enforcement officials. Walz announced he would not seek reelection, citing in part “an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of the crisis.” Funding for child care in Minnesota is still frozen as state officials face a Friday deadline to give the federal government information about child care funding recipients. The Twin Cities are home to the US’s largest diaspora from Somalia, a small Muslim-majority nation on the Horn of Africa that has been rent by decades of civil war and entrenched poverty.
Author: Priscilla Alvarez, Zoe Sottile
Published at: 2026-01-05 23:03:42
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