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When the Donald Trump administration launched its largest operation targeting migrants in the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, last December, several members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained. They were not criminals, undocumented residents, or even migrants. They are U.S. citizens who became victims of the racial profiling ICE agents have used in their raids, sanctioned by a controversial Supreme Court ruling that allowed officials to rely on facial features, the language spoken, or an English-speaking accent to choose their targets. In addition to the obvious consequences the practice has had in the Latino community, where thousands of citizens have been stopped during operations, Native Americans have also fallen victim to the subjective criteria used by officials.

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Six months ago, Jacob Frey, 44, went from being mayor of Minneapolis to governing an occupied city. Between 3,000 and 4,000 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dispatched by Donald Trump, descended on the state of Minnesota in December of 2025. This was under the pretext of combating fraud within the burgeoning local Somali community.

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Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to Black and Latino minorities in Louisiana, issuing a ruling that weakens the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The decision also legitimizes an aggressive redistricting effort in favor of the Republican Party that will dilute Black electoral power across the South, and by its broad reach, it strikes Latino voters equally. Days later, in Virginia, the state Supreme Court struck down a redistricting plan approved just weeks earlier by referendum, nullifying an electoral map redesign that would have allowed Democrats to gain seats through multiracial coalitions. Until then, recapturing the House of Representatives in November’s midterms had seemed almost certain. Now, no one is so sure.

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