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Minnesota governor Tim Walz urges president to ‘stop this campaign of retribution’ as he threatens to deploy military

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Tensions remain high in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.

A group of US parliamentarians is visiting Copenhagen today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements over Greenland – but on Thursday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was “to continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland.” Our colleague Jakub Krupa have more on that over on the Europe live blog.

In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in Texas in early January may be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. After, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.

An appeals court dismissed Mahmoud Khalil’s lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his re-arrest. Khalil – a green card holder and Columbia graduate – was released from an immigration detention facility last year, after he was initially arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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