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ICE agents reportedly took a 2-year-old and her father in Minneapolis as anger grew over the agency targeting children and detaining them.

Minneapolis City Councilmember Jason Chavez said that Chloe Renata Tipan Villacis and her father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, were driving back home from the grocery store Thursday when immigration officials decided to detain them, The Daily Beast reported. Chavez created a GoFundMe fundraiser for the family, which has already raised nearly $60,000.

Ellen Schmidt, a MinnPost photographer, captured the moment agents swarmed the vehicle in a series of photos posted on Instagram. ...

A federal judge criticized Kristi Noem's ICE agents for lying about arrests in Chicago and trying to cover it up — even though body-cam video showed use of tear gas, pepper balls, brake-checks and using ChatGPT to change their narratives.

U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis issued a scathing 233-page opinion revealing the series of false statements from agents in the agency's “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration sweep in Chicago, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

In one video, the footage “suggests that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force,” Ellis writes....