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As Minneapolis residents face clashes with federal immigration enforcement agents that have resulted in the killings of two people in the past month, small business owners like Shontay Evans say federal agents’ presence in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul is threatening their financial survival.

Citing declining sales in an atmosphere of fear and distrust, Evans, 41, said she was considering closing Tay’s Secret Garden, a plant nursery she has operated out of her home in St. Paul for seven years.

“Everybody's saving their money because they're scared,” Evans told Raw Story. “It's been pretty rough lately.”...

The four lead prosecutors who led the $250 million Minnesota fraud case have all quit amid mass resignations, according to reports on Wednesday.

The departures of Joe Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Daniel Bobier and Matthew Ebert from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota mark a number "already-diminished office," including a wave of dozens who have already resigned from their roles, CBS reported. They have reportedly passed the case to "relative newcomers to the office."

Now, as few as 17 assistant U.S. attorneys have held on, which is a major drop from the 70 working during the Biden administration, an inside source told CBS. ...