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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 12h
Harrowing story of a couple separated by federal immigration agents: “They threw him to the ground like he was some kind of hardened criminal...They put a knee on his back and started kicking and beating him while he was already on the ground.” Via Regina Medina www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Minneapolis family shares story of ‘violent’ ICE detainment and 10 months of separation
About 3,700 people were arrested by federal law enforcement in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. For one family, the resulting family separation has caused financial and emotional stress.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 12h
“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This week marks 9 months since Renée Good was killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis. As your DFL-endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney, I’ve never danced around this topic, or needed consultants and polling to tell me how to feel.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 04/10/2026
... separation has taken a toll. The Pennsylvania couple have been together for over 17 years and have two children. “My children often ask where their father went and why he left, especially our 5-year-old son who doesn’t understand what happened to his father,” Reyann said.
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3 Minnesotans deported to Somalia after a month at Guantánamo
Nine men, part of a group of a dozen held in U.S. facilities in Guantánamo Bay, have been deported to Somalia.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 04/10/2026
A pair of ICE Air 737s, including one that was loaded with shackled migrants, clipped and damaged each other as one was taxiing to depart the Akron-Canton Airport - CAK. The 737s are both operated by Eastern Air Express.
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Deportation plane bumps wing of another jet at Akron-Canton, grounds deportation flights at airport
Deportation flights that have been using Akron-Canton Airport as a Great Lakes hub for several months were shifted temporarily back to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport after a collision.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump tried to cut 7.3 billion in public funding for Minnesota, and I sued and protected the funding. Trump implemented extreme tariffs, and I sued to stop them. Every time Trump does something illegal, I'm the first one standing in his way to protect Minnesotans.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 01/10/2026
Poll tests are unconstitutional. They were used in the Jim Crow era in the South to disenfranchise Black voters. GOP candidate William Beck just said he wants to bring them back.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man wrote a whole ass book about almost doing something.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Fatality Mortal Kombat
ALT: Fatality Mortal Kombat
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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extreme close-up on the sun from the jug
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
$6 million in renovations for the presidents house.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How else can we simplify our “administrative and academic portfolios”? Cunningham is nauseating.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This country needs a functional moron
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 23/09/2026
Here are the slides from my presentation at today's Documenting the Impact of DHS Activity in Minnesota conference at the U of M - Watching ICE Air at MSP: How many are they taking away? This work is done entirely by volunteers; help MN50501 cover our airport parking fees: mn50501.org/donate 🧵👇
Watching ICE Air at MSP
How many are they taking away?
Nick Benson, MN50501, September 22, 2026Background

Self-employed
* Smart flight alert app for airplane nerds
* Got interested in aviation angle of ICE’s detention apparatus in early 2025
* Got serious about ICE in October 2025
* The most important work I’ll ever doWhat is ICE Air?

*ICE Air is a conglomerate of charter airlines that fly detainees between local prisons, detention centers, and out of the country
* “Shuffle” flights are domestic
* Detainees are shackled before/during/after
* Denver Air Connection / Key Lime, Global Crossing, Eastern Air Express
* Akin to FedEx or Amazon, hub/spoke
* ~65,000 currently in ICE detention,
~70% don’t have a criminal conviction ICE Air at MSP

* Shuffle flights, taking detainees to detention centers via Alexandria, LA and El Paso, TX

* 2-3 flights per day during Metro Surge; now 2-3 per week

* ICE vehicles carry detainees to/from the airport from Whipple

* Loaded at Signature Aviation, the private jet terminal

* Started counting in November
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Meltdown
Meltdown by Michael Lizama: a horizontal protest poster of Godzilla breathing fire spelling “ICE OUT!” in green and orange, with helicopters and a blazing sun.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026
Economist Jose Pacas of CoLab welcoming attendees to the conference
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026
So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prosecutors say that Christian Castro made 394 calls while in a Texas jail to a person in Mexico, and expressed interest in buying a house and residing in Mexico. Written by Mohamed Ibrahim
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ICE agent charged in Minneapolis shooting allegedly plotted escape to Mexico
ICE Christian Castro makes his first court appearance in Hennepin County for lying about a north Minneapolis shooting.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
ICYMI, Ken Paxton demanded Adam Hoffman, a lawyer who statutorily raped a boy, be given 29 years, 11 months, and 29 days less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE. The judge sentenced Hoffman to 60 days instead
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My mom had to take her drivers test in a hearse. Grandfather, who was a funeral director, tried to sabotage her exam by not letting her use the car she’d been practicing with.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026
After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...
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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: In a new audio recording, GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx suggests that his campaign filed someone else's large contribution under Marx's name to avoid campaign finance limits.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials
ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 11/09/2026
During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams." DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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West Side Story - Snapping Jets
Alt: West Side Story - Snapping Jets
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The grandson of Oswald Mosley (founder of the British Union of Fascists) and Diane Mitford (friends with Adolf Hitler who married Oswald Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels) is Louis Mosley (CEO of Palantir UK).
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Has video of the full play been provided to the public?
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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Castro made an appearance in Texas Federal Court yesterday, posted bond, and will appear in Minnesota later this month. He will turn himself in or be arrested on our state warrant and our state prosecution will begin, despite the efforts of Governor Abbott. www.startribune.com/christian-ca...
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ICE agent arrested on federal charges over shooting of Minneapolis immigrant
Christian Castro was taken into custody after a sealed federal indictment was filed against him, one week after he was released from a Texas jail.
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Rab Noolas @nova56013.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Tombstone Curly Bill Says Bye
Alt: Tombstone Curly Bill Says Bye
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #highered
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Wesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt status
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Wesleyan University president Michael Roth about U.S. Treasury and IRS efforts to revoke tax-exempt status from private schools that help students based on race.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
JUST IN: Leon Black is suing the House Oversight Committee to block to subpoenas related to his deposition testimony and an effort to obtain NDAs he has with women. He claims the subpoenas lack a legitimate legislative purpose and exceed Congress' power. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I sent more than 40 data requests and called more people than I could keep count of to figure out what Operation Metro Surge did to Minnesota school enrollment and what happened to the kids who disappeared. Our story is out today — please give it a read.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 28/08/2026
The MSP Airport doesn't need to have an opinion about the 47 people detained by ICE there in July, but they need to pull their head out of the sand and acknowledge reality. It isn't safe to travel at our airports right now. @startribune.com story: www.startribune.com/ice-arrests-...
47 of the 247 ICE detentions in Minnesota took place at the airport.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 29/08/2026
19% of ICE arrests last month, the busiest for the agency here in Minnesota since Metro Surge, were here at MSP airport. Our airport authority, the MAC, continues their spineless policy of silence, despite the fact it isn't safe for people to travel through MSP right now.
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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person in initial federal support beginning Oct. 1, nearly double the current amount, four people familiar with the change in policy said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees
The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2026
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dies at 97, Kyodo says reut.rs/4wQ6ZxM
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dies at 97, Kyodo says
Japanese ​avant-garde ​artist ⁠Yayoi ​Kusama, ​97, has ​died, ​Kyodo ‌news ⁠agency ​reported ​on ⁠Thursday.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
idk man, isnt the fact that the legal argument for starting the investigation is entirely fallacious and frivilous evidence that it was pretextual??
The record contains no direct evidence indicating that Governor Abbott made this request for the purpose of delay, or that the investigation will continue for a prolonged period.  The threat of an indefinite consideration of Minnesota’s extradition request does not currently exist.The Court has doubts that caselaw supports the construction of “fugitive” that Texas is considering.  According to Texas, it is investigating whether, in the context of interstate extradition, a fugitive is a person who volitionally leaves the state in which he is charged.  Here, Texas proposes, Castro did not leave Minnesota volitionally, but did so in response to a directive from ICE, his employer.  But as the Supreme Court long ago explained, a fugitive is a person who, “having within a state committed that which by its laws constitutes a crime, when he is sought to be subjected to its criminal process to answer for his offense, he has left its jurisdiction, and is found within the territory of another.” Roberts v. Reilly, 116 U.S. 80, 97 (1885).  Under this rubric, the focus rests not on the accused’s reason for leaving the state, but simply on whether he in fact left.  Consistent with this broad construction of “fugitive,” cases that have concluded that an individual was not a fugitive all involved persons who were not within the state demanding extradition when the alleged offense occurred. See, e.g., Hyatt v. New York, 188 U.S. 691 (1903); Fowler v. Ross, 196 F.2d 25, 35 (D.C. Cir. 1952); Moncrief v. Anderson, 342 F.2d 902 (D.C. Cir. 1964).  And in one case, a circuit court concluded that a prisoner transferred by state custodial authorities from Kansas to Wyoming became a fugitive from Kansas for purposes of extradition. Gee v. Kansas, 912 F.2d 414, 419 (10th Cir. 1990) (“Once petitioner was moved outside Wyoming State boundaries, he became a fugitive from justice within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 3182.”) (emphasis added).  The transferred individual in Gee made no more of a volitional act to leave Kansas than Castro did to leave Minnesota.  But the Tenth circuit still concluded that the accused wqs a fugitive for purposes of interstate extradition
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Dylan @tcdylan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The first hearing of the Minnesota Truth Council is happening now (8/26/26) The council was established to create a comprehensive record of the events and impact of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS in our communities youtube.com/@minnesotatr...
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Minnesota Truth Council
The Governor’s Council to Record the Truth of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS (“Minnesota Truth Council”) was established by Executive Order 26-05 on March 25, 2026, to create a comprehensi...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 26/08/2026
A federal judge in Texas has denied Minnesota's request to force Gov. Greg Abbott to extradite ICE agent Christian Castro, who is charged in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis. The order means Castro is set to be released from jail this week.
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Judge denies Minnesota’s extradition request for ICE agent Christian Castro • Minnesota Reformer
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday denied the state of Minnesota’s extradition request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro, who is charged in the shooting of Julio Cesar S...
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