Ted Hesson
@tedhesson.bsky.social
Immigration Reporter @Reuters
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said body cameras being deployed to every field officer in Minneapolis www.reuters.com/world/us/dhs...
DHS chief says body cameras being deployed to every field officer in Minneapolis
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Monday her department was deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis effective immediately and the body camera program wil...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said body cameras being deployed to every field officer in Minneapolis www.reuters.com/world/us/dhs...
Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE - www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...
Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis and students across the United States staged walkouts on Friday to demand the withdrawal of federal immigration agents from Minnesota followi...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE - www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...
Exclusive: ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders, w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/ice-of...
Exclusive: ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders
The new internal guidance reviewed by Reuters also orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to only target immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Exclusive: ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders, w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/ice-of...
Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving federal agents - including two fatal shootings of US citizens - that were later contradicted by evidence, a Reuters review found www.reuters.com/world/us/evi...
Evidence contradicts Trump immigration officials' accounts of violent encounters
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving federal agents - including two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens in Minneapoli...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving federal agents - including two fatal shootings of US citizens - that were later contradicted by evidence, a Reuters review found www.reuters.com/world/us/evi...
Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras, pared back oversight - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras, pared back oversight
President Donald Trump’s administration opposed efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut oversight staffing as it surged officers into Minneapolis and other ci...
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January 25, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras, pared back oversight - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Deaths mount as Trump immigration push intensifies - www.reuters.com/world/us/dea...
Deaths mount as Trump immigration push intensifies
The fatal shooting of a man in Minneapolis on Saturday added to a mounting death toll in U.S. President Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration push this month, increasing scrutiny on the crackdown as...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Thousands brave bitter cold to demand ICE leave Minneapolis - www.reuters.com/world/us/min...
Thousands brave bitter cold to demand ICE leave Minneapolis
On a day that started with temperatures as low as minus 20 Fahrenheit (minus 29 Celsius), organizers said as many as 50,000 people took to the streets to demand an end to Trump's immigration crackdown...
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January 24, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Thousands brave bitter cold to demand ICE leave Minneapolis - www.reuters.com/world/us/min...
U.S. immigration officials on Friday provided a new but incomplete account of an immigrant detainee's death in Texas after a report emerged suggesting it may have been homicide www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US officials provide shifting accounts of ICE detainee death in Texas military camp
U.S. immigration officials on Friday provided a new but incomplete account of an immigrant detainee's death in Texas after a report emerged suggesting it may have been homicide.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:39 PM
U.S. immigration officials on Friday provided a new but incomplete account of an immigrant detainee's death in Texas after a report emerged suggesting it may have been homicide www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Ghana took in Trump's deported West Africans. Then it forced them home www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Ghana took in Trump's deported West Africans. Then it forced them home
Ghana is in the middle of a heated debate over President Donald Trump's use of so-called third-country removals to hasten the departure of unauthorised immigrants who cannot easily be sent to their ho...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Ghana took in Trump's deported West Africans. Then it forced them home www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Reposted by Ted Hesson
In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”
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January 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”
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The Trump administration will end humanitarian protections that grant deportation relief and work permits to some 1,100 Somalis in the U.S., officials said on Tuesday, the latest restrictive move targeting Somali immigrants www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US to end deportation relief for Somalis in Temporary Protected Status program
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will end humanitarian protections that grant deportation relief and work permits to some 1,100 Somalis in the U.S., administration officials said on Tuesda...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Trump administration will end humanitarian protections that grant deportation relief and work permits to some 1,100 Somalis in the U.S., officials said on Tuesday, the latest restrictive move targeting Somali immigrants www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Four migrants died while in ICE custody over the first 10 days of 2026, a spate of in-custody deaths coincided with the fatal shooting of a Minnesota mother of three by an ICE officer www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Four migrants die in US ICE custody over first 10 days of 2026
Four migrants died while in custody of U.S. immigration authorities over the first 10 days of 2026, according to government press releases, a loss of life that followed record detention deaths last ye...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Four migrants died while in ICE custody over the first 10 days of 2026, a spate of in-custody deaths coincided with the fatal shooting of a Minnesota mother of three by an ICE officer www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump’s showy immigration enforcement leads to violent confrontations - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump’s showy immigration enforcement leads to violent confrontations
Masked officers have sprayed tear gas on residential streets, tackled people and aimed guns at bystanders.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Trump’s showy immigration enforcement leads to violent confrontations - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by US Immigration agent in Minneapolis? - www.reuters.com/world/us/who...
Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by US Immigration agent in Minneapolis?
Renee Nicole Good was a poet from Colorado and a mother of three living in Minnesota.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by US Immigration agent in Minneapolis? - www.reuters.com/world/us/who...
The videos reviewed by Reuters cover 20 seconds in the deadly encounter between Good and ICE. They show the ICE officer who fired the fatal shots was standing in front of the moving vehicle when he initially drew his firearm - www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
How the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis unfolded in 20 seconds
The ICE officer involved in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis fired the first of three shots as the car moved past him, a Reuters analysis of the available visuals shows.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The videos reviewed by Reuters cover 20 seconds in the deadly encounter between Good and ICE. They show the ICE officer who fired the fatal shots was standing in front of the moving vehicle when he initially drew his firearm - www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Can the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman be prosecuted? - www.reuters.com/world/us/can...
Explainer: Can the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman be prosecuted?
Local officials rejected the Trump administration's explanation that the shooting was self-defense.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Can the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman be prosecuted? - www.reuters.com/world/us/can...
ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, mayor disputes government claim of self-defense - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US immigration agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, mayor disputes government claim of self-defense
The identity of the shot woman was not publicly disclosed. The police chief said the woman, who was married, was not a target of immigration operations.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, mayor disputes government claim of self-defense - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
EXCLUSIVE: US and South African officials reached an agreement during a closed-door meeting in late December to allow the U.S. to continue its controversial effort to bring white South Africans to the US as refugees. W/ @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Exclusive: South Africa will not interfere with US refugee program for white minority, email says
U.S. and South African officials reached an agreement during a closed-door meeting in late December to allow the U.S. to continue its controversial effort to bring white South Africans to the U.S. as ...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US and South African officials reached an agreement during a closed-door meeting in late December to allow the U.S. to continue its controversial effort to bring white South Africans to the US as refugees. W/ @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/africa...
President Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash
Trump plans more workplace raids and billions of dollars in ICE and Border Patrol funding.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
President Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
Four died in ICE custody this week as 2025 deaths reach 20-year high
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program: "What we're seeing is this administration using these cases, these stories, as a pretext to their own end, which is to target people from countries that they deem to be undesirable" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is moving to clamp down on a visa program that aims to increase diversity after the suspect in an attack at Brown University was linked to it, the latest i...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program: "What we're seeing is this administration using these cases, these stories, as a pretext to their own end, which is to target people from countries that they deem to be undesirable" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed www.reuters.com/business/med...
White South Africans could get Trump biography for kids in refugee welcome packet
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails re...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed www.reuters.com/business/med...
Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, indie media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track immigration enforcement and collaborating on information www.reuters.com/business/med...
'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids
These student journalists counter online rumor with facts and give locals maps of frequently targeted areas as panic spreads over whom immigration agents will target next.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, indie media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track immigration enforcement and collaborating on information www.reuters.com/business/med...
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter. Inside Trump’s pressure tactics w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
As Trump misses deportation goals, ICE pushes migrants to give up their cases
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation to their native Colombia or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter. Inside Trump’s pressure tactics w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics
Donald Trump's racial comments are growing increasingly bold, normalized and permissible, his critics say, as some of his allies and supporters no longer consider them out of bounds.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...