Three US citizens sue Trump via ACLU over encounters with ICE agents
The American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over the Trump administration’s immigration operation in Minneapolis describes a mass “racial profiling campaign” resulting in “an unprecedented level of violence” against Minnesotans of color.
“People targeted by ICE have been handcuffed, tackled, and beaten by federal agents. Agents have broken car windows, dragged people from their cars, and used pepper spray and tear gas against compliant, non-violent people,” the lawsuit reads.
The three plaintiffs in the case, who are all US citizens, are Mubashir Khalif Hussen, a 20-year-old Somali man who grew up in the United States after his family came to the country as refugees, Mahamed Eydarus, a 25-year-old Somali-American and Javier Doe, a 22-year-old Hispanic man.
On December 10, 2025, Hussen encountered immigration agents while on his lunch break. The lawsuit describes agents pushing him into a restaurant, dragging him outside, placing him in a headlock, and then driving him to an ICE field office where he was denied medical assistance and water – despite Hussen’s repeated statements that he was a US citizen.
Also on December 10, Eydarus was shoveling his parking space after leaving work when ICE agents approached him and his mother, asked his mother to remove her niqab, a cultural and religious face covering, and criticized them for speaking a “foreign language”.
And on January 8, 2026, Doe was approached by four masked Border Patrol agents and CBP commander Gregory Bovino. After asking if he was a citizen, which Doe said he did not need to answer, an agent tackled Doe to the ground, pinned him, and pressed his knee to Doe’s neck.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is investigating “every single organization or person responsible for paying or contributing in any way to the organization of these protests” as well as “the criminal actors at those protests” over immigration operations across the United States, FBI director Kash Patel said in an appearance on the right-wing television program Real America’s Voice.
“These protests, whether it’s Minneapolis, or LA, or Portland or where have you, aren’t spontaneous. They don’t magically appear,” Patel said. “It is an organized, in my opinion, effort to criminally disrupt and cause chaos into our communities.”
Real America’s Voice is a partisan pro-Trump outlet that was originally created to broadcast Steve Bannon’s podcast. In addition to Bannon, its leading figure is Brian Glenn, a Trump supporting White House correspondent, best known for dating Marjorie Taylor Greene, and for asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy the provocative question of why he was not wearing a suit during his first visit to the Oval Office to meet Trump last year.
El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner will likely classify the death of a man in a Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention camp as a homicide, the Washington Post reports.
After Geraldo Lunas Campos died on 3 January, ICE said “staff observed him in distress” and gave no cause of death. But according to the Post’s reporting, which cites a recorded conversation the county medical examiner had with Lunas Campos’s daughter, the county “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.
Pending a toxicology report, the county medical examiner “is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”
Donald Trump has selected the members of an international “Board of Peace” designed to temporarily govern Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the president announced in a social media post.
“The Members of the Board will be announced shortly, but I can say with certainty that it is the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place,” he wrote.
Reuters reports that the names are expected to be announced at Davos next week.
According to a recent analysis by the New York Times, Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire began on 10 October.
Just over a week since Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, residents gathered for another day of protests over immigration actions there.
Here are a few photos of the day from the wires:
CNN reports that a team of its journalists were hit by pepper balls while covering a protest against ICE in Minneapolis today.
The United States has seen an uptick in law enforcement violence against journalists in recent years, particularly since the George Floyd protests of 2020. In 2025, the US press suffered about as many assaults as in the previous three years combined, according to a new report from the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Here’s more of our reporting over the years on these growing attacks:
Schumer tells Trump ICE raids ‘are dangerous and putting more people at risk’
Chuck Schumer met Donald Trump at the White House today, to discuss funding the president halted to construct and refurbish railway tunnels between New York City and New Jersey.
The Senate minority leader, who represents New York, met the presdient to discuss the stalled Gateway tunnel project. According to a readout of the meeting provided by Schumer’s office, the senator also raised “the 3-year extension of the ACA tax credit bill that has already passed the House” and told the president that ICE raids “are dangerous and putting more people at risk” and agents “must pull back” from US cities.
Donald Trump has released his healthcare affordability framework, a year and a half after he said he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform during a campaign debate against Kamala Harris.
As my colleagues Richard Luscombe and Melody Schreiber report:
The short document, titled the Great Healthcare Plan, provides four headline objectives, but few specific details as to how they will be achieved.
The Trump administration says it intends to lower prescription prices and healthcare premiums; hold big insurance companies accountable by requiring them to publish their claim costs, overheads and profits; and push insurers and medical providers to provide greater transparency over pricing.
Here’s the full story:
In her remarks to reporters this afternoon, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Venezuela has a president-elect, who is not current interim leader Delcy Rodríguez.
“I have insisted – and I will continue to insist – that Venezuela has a president-elect, and I am very proud to work alongside him,” Machado said, naming Edmundo González, who ran against Nicolás Maduro in the country’s 2024 presidential election.
Her remarks came just hours after Rodríguez appeared to criticize Machado during her first state of the union address.
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem announced that ICE’s principal legal advisor Charles Wall will take over as deputy director of the agency after Madison Sheahan annnounced she would be stepping down to run for Congress.
In a social media post announcing his appointment, Noem said that Wall “has served as an ICE attorney for 14 years”.
According to Wall’s biography on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website, he previously worked as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans.
Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters outside the US Capitol that she presented Donald Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal during their meeting earlier today.
“I told him this, 200 years ago, General Lafayette gave Simón Bolivar a medal with George Washington’s face,” she said, which she called a symbol of unity between Venezuela and the United States. She added that giving Trump her Nobel peace prize called back to that history.
She did not confirm whether the president accepted the award.
Here’s our developing story:
Donald Trump is meeting with the 2025 Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers, currently at the White House.
Wishing energy secretary Chris Wright happy birthday at the start of the event, who Trump calls his “oil man”, the president said, “We are now drilling more oil than anytime, any country ever in history. And oil prices in many states are down to $1.90 a gallon. That’s like a major tax cut.”
Saying he felt uncomfortable on stage with a group of young, powerful men, Trump later quipped, “But I’ve got power too, it’s called the United States military.”
