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'Open it!' New details emerge in terrified migrant's viral violent arrest

'Open it!' New details emerge in terrified migrant's viral violent arrest

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard.

He didn’t want to go to work at the restaurant that Sunday morning, but several of his fellow cooks had already called out, fearful of the immigration agents swarming the city. Just four days earlier, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good through her car window, the fatal bullet entering her left temple, as she and her wife protested the agents’ presence in their south Minneapolis neighborhood. Henriquez Serrano had seen the video; it made him feel sick to the stomach.

“I’m counting on you to come in,” Henriquez Serrano’s manager had texted. So he put on his work clothes — dark jeans, a black tee shirt and a faux leather jacket with grey lining — and drove to the gas station closest to his home, the Speedway at the intersection of Snelling and Portland Avenues in St. Paul....

Trump's immigration agents under investigation for kidnapping and burglary

Trump's immigration agents under investigation for kidnapping and burglary

Ramsey County authorities are investigating federal officers for potential crimes committed during Operation Metro Surge — including kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice have so far refused to cooperate by sharing information about the incidents, according to Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher.

“This is novel territory,” Choi said. “But we’re not going to let it go, because we owe it to the people of our community and our state to seek the truth, to gather those facts.”...

'Plucked out of their lives': The untold stories of Trump's brutal crackdown

'Plucked out of their lives': The untold stories of Trump's brutal crackdown

These are the arrests you’re not seeing

by Madison McVan, Daily Montanan
January 16, 2026

A man shelters alone under the heaters of a south Minneapolis bus stop on a cold January morning, the hood of a grey sweatshirt pulled over his thick dark hair. He unzips his black outer coat and looks down, apparently searching for something tucked into the other layers of clothing....

‘We are a whisper away from Jim Crow’: Minnesota's top prosecutor sounds alarm

‘We are a whisper away from Jim Crow’: Minnesota's top prosecutor sounds alarm

When President Donald Trump’s performance in the polls in 2024 signaled a possible re-election, Keith Ellison and fellow Democratic attorneys general read Project 2025 and started getting ready, especially when Trump hired the key author of the planning document after his election.

They divided the documents into sections and marshaled their staff lawyers to be ready with lawsuits.

So when Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget froze the distribution of certain federal funds — as outlined in Project 2025 — Ellison and other the Democratic AGs were ready. ...