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Protestors march during a "Nationwide Shutdown" demonstration against ICE enforcement on January 30

5-year-old Liam Ramos returns home as Trump administration shifts tone amid nationwide anti-ICE protests

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The phrase “ICE Out” echoed across the nation this weekend as protesters took to the streets, calling for an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Meanwhile, a preschooler and his father, taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over a week ago, returned home following a judge’s ruling. Protesters

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Columbia median ordinance back on city council agenda Monday

The Columbia City Council is expected to vote on a median ordinance on Monday. If passed, people would be prohibited from standing on medians that are on major roadways.

The ordinance was tabled at a November meeting and pushed back to February to allow all council members a chance to vote, hear comments and review additional information from city staff, according to a city council document.

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READ: District judge’s scathing opinion ordering release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — US District Judge Fred Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. In the fiery opinion, Biery admonished the Trump administration’s “ignorance” of the Declaration of Independence, saying Americans today are hearing echoes of Thomas Jefferson’s 1776 grievances

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson attends a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection in Chicago on January 25.

Chicago mayor signs executive order calling on police to investigate federal immigration agents accused of misconduct

By Ray Sanchez, Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order directing city police to investigate and document alleged misconduct by federal immigration officers with an eye toward prosecution. “We are putting ICE on notice in our city. Chicago will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal

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A couple views a memorial site for George Floyd at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue on June 18

‘It’s not because we have bigger guns’: Minneapolis’ poet laureate tells why ICE found itself in trouble

By Leah Asmelash, CNN MINNEAPOLIS (CNN) — In January 2025, Junauda Petrus warned, in her inaugural poem as poet laureate of Minneapolis, of residents “getting snatched in the night,” and celebrated a city of “neighbors who traded plates of food….so we could all taste where each other was from.” The poem, “Ritual on How to

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