Civil Liberties

Autumn Billings | 1.22.2026 11:15 AM

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that over 3,000 immigration arrests have taken place in the last six weeks amid the agency's ongoing crackdown in Minneapolis. This influx of arrests has brought to light new concerns that the Trump administration continues to violate immigrants' and Americans' rights to due process.

Earlier this week, ABC News reported that federal authorities were denying legal representatives the ability to see clients held at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. One anonymous immigration attorney told ABC News that they were denied visitation with a client who'd been held at the facility for multiple days. "I stood outside the visitation room for about four hours…And they just kept repeating, we don't do attorney visitation," the attorney told ABC News. The attorney also claimed that this was the first time in a decade of representing immigrants that they've had any issue visiting clients at the Whipple Federal Building. 

Similarly, ABC News interviewed........

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