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• 2026/01/23 23:27 UTC [L..T] Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure «Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents»... «Amundson and Zemien were the only ones who recognized that the man was having a seizure. They spoke up immediately, telling the driver to pull over and telling the agents to call 911. When nothing happened, they repeated it, louder and more urgently.» After the agent was transferred to medical care: «“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”»
• 2026/01/23 23:12 UTC [L..T] (social post) «To call what's going on in Minnesota historic is an understatement. General strikes are extraordinarily rare in US history; there have only been a handful of general strikes, with individual states and even this is extraordinarily rare. This is a major step towards a national general strike, which has never happened in 250 years of this country's history.»
• 2026/01/16 17:39 UTC [L..T] Family of U.S. citizen detained by ICE in St. Paul seeks her release «Nasra Ahmed, 23, left her family’s apartment complex on Lower Afton Road in St. Paul around 11 a.m. Wednesday on the way to the pharmacy to pick up her medicine. A car occupied by at least two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled into the parking lot and demanded to see her papers.» Despite being a US citizen born in Minnesota who had never even been to Somalia, the «ICE agents detained her anyway, leaving her family uncertain of her whereabouts for at least 24 hours. Her father, Mohamed Ahmed, called [state Rep. Samakab] Hussein in tears, pleading for any information, and the representative tracked her to the Sherburne County Jail, where she’s being held without bail pending possible felony charges.»