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Trump's immigration enforcement surge continues to rock Minnesota, just a week after the ICE shooting of Renee Good, a mother of three and U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the number of federal agents now in Minneapolis and Saint Paul outstrips the 10 largest Twin Cities metro police departments combined. "We don't want ICE in our neighborhoods. They are violent, they are creating chaos and terrorizing our immigrant neighbors, and they are not keeping anyone safe," says vice president of the Saint Paul City Council, Hwa Jeong Kim, who comments on the city's new lawsuit against the Trump administration, the loss of temporary protected status for thousands of Somali immigrants in the United States, plans for a general strike in Minneapolis and more.
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When Becky Pepper-Jackson started middle school, she wanted to join her school's track and field team. Like many girls her age, she was excited to make new friends and cultivate a passion for a sport. But unlike the other girls on her school's track and field team, Pepper-Jackson is trans. And because she lives in West Virginia, a state which has banned transgender girls from participating in public school sports, Pepper-Jackson was excluded from what for her classmates is a normal childhood experience. Pepper-Jackson sued, and her case is now before the conservative-majority Supreme Court — which, after oral arguments Tuesday, appears likely to uphold similar laws throughout the country. "The states have attempted to justify these things in terms of some sort of alleged sex-based athletic advantage," says Karen L. Loewy of the LGBTQ legal advocacy organization Lambda Legal. "It's really about whether the court is going to uphold trans people's equal opportunity in all aspects of public life."
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Diplomats from Denmark and Greenland had originally requested the meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio after provocative statements from the president.
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The outcome of a pair of cases on Tuesday could affect laws in 27 states that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams.
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Greenland's leader said that, if given the choice between the United States and Denmark, the Greenlanders would rather stick with the Danes.
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The refugees, many of them from Somalia, had passed security screenings before coming to the United States. The Trump administration has vowed to "re-examine thousands of refugee cases."
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