ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities. Here’s what it can — and can’t — do
Alberta MP calls on Canada to shut down U.S. immigration and customs operations north of border
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to draw widespread criticism for its deportation crackdown in the States, there’s concern brewing about the agency's presence north of the border.
The U.S. government’s website lists ICE offices in five Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa.
In an emailed statement to CBC News, an ICE spokesperson confirmed its criminal investigative law enforcement component — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — conducts work at the U.S. embassy in the country’s capital, and at consulates in the other four cities.
HSI personnel are separate from the ICE arm at the forefront of the immigration crackdowns making headlines in cities like Minneapolis, known as Enforcement and Removal Operations.
According to the government website, HSI has over 93 offices in more than 50 countries, with a mandate to identify and stop crime “before it reaches the United States.”
What does ICE do in Canada?
“HSI special agents conduct criminal investigations to protect the United States from dangerous transnational organizations, like terrorist groups and drug cartels,” the ICE spokesperson told CBC News.
“These skilled and highly trained special agents focus on a wide variety of serious crimes, like drug trafficking, child exploitation, weapons smuggling, human smuggling, financial fraud, and more.”
A
security guard works outside the Embassy of the United States of
America in Ottawa on Nov. 7, 2020. ICE said its Homeland Security
Investigations component operates out of this location and four
consulates across Canada. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press) The ICE spokesperson said the agency also helps track and detain known and potential terrorists before they can carry out attacks against the United States and its allies.
According to the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, HSI has supported several investigations in Canada, including a case from October where police laid 700 charges against 20 people after a law enforcement operation seized over 14 kilograms of drugs and 35 firearms in raids in Ottawa, Cornwall, Ont., and Akwesasne, Que.
ICE did not confirm how long it has been established in Canada.
Here’s what the U.S. agency can — and can’t — do north of the border:
Can ICE arrest people in Canada?
No. HSI special agents do not conduct operational activities in Canada, such as making arrests or executing search warrants, according to ICE.
Are agents armed?
No. ICE confirmed HSI agents do not carry firearms in Canada.
Calls for Canada to ‘ICE-out’
News of these ICE field offices spread quickly on social media over the past week, leading to calls for Canada to shut down ICE operations in the country.
In a letter to the prime minister last week, Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson called on Mark Carney to close ICE field offices in Canada until the “human rights crisis is resolved,” referring to the agency’s operations in the U.S.
“Canada has sovereign authority over who operates on our territory, and you must revoke ICE’s permission to maintain offices here,” said McPherson, who is currently running for the leadership of the federal NDP.
CBC News has reached out to the Prime Minister's Office for a response to McPherson's letter.
The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa addressed the outpouring of concern with a thread on its X account recounting a number of investigations HSI has supported north of the border, adding that its “work in Canada is about partnership, public safety, and upholding the law.”
“We remain committed to working with our Canadian counterparts to keep our communities safe.”
Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of human rights law at the University of the Fraser Valley and a consultant with the Wayamo Foundation, an international justice organization, said ICE’s recent fatal operations in Minnesota and Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty are critical to understanding how ICE in Canada could pose a potential public safety concern.
“In that context, I think people rightly deserve and want to know more about what experts have called a paramilitary of the Trump administration is doing in Canada,” he said.
“And whether in fact we should have any presence, regardless of what they're doing, of an entity that is committing such horrible harms with impunity in America, again, at a time when our sovereignty is consistently being put to question by American authorities.”
A
man walks by posters of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, who were
both fatally shot by federal agents, in Minneapolis, Saturday, Jan. 31,
2026. (Ryan Murphy/AP) Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minnesota on Jan. 7. Then, just over a week ago, ICU nurse Alex Pretti was killed in another shooting by federal officers.
CBS News reported ICE was holding a record 73,000 people in detention in mid-January — an 84 per cent increase since U.S. President Donald Trump took office last year.
“No one is saying that Canada, Canadian authorities and American authorities shouldn't cooperate when it comes to human trafficking, when it comes to drug trafficking, when it comes to various types of transnational, trans-border criminal conduct. We absolutely need to co-operate on those issues,” Kersten said.
But he said that other agencies under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, such as Customs and Border Protection, could potentially carry out HSI's current duties without ICE needing to operate on Canadian soil.
In its statement, ICE said "HSI has a longstanding and productive relationship with Canada, one of America’s most essential partners."
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NDP MP calls on government to sanction Canadian companies doing business with ICE
McPherson says Canadians 'must not engage with or support fascist violence'
An NDP MP is calling on the government to take action to stop Canadian businesses from having any dealings with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Heather McPherson posted a letter she penned to Prime Minister Mark Carney on X Thursday, saying that the government should consider a number of actions against Canadian companies that have business with the agency.
"Canada and Canadians must not engage with or support fascist violence that destroys communities and threatens the safety of our American neighbours and ourselves," she wrote.
McPherson said the government should deny export permits to companies selling equipment to ICE and pull any public subsidies or contracts from companies who have dealings with the agency.
NDP MP Heather McPherson posted a letter about ICE's business with Canadian firms Thursday on X. (@HMcPhersonNDP/X)
Since beginning his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has sent federal agents into cities he has alleged are overridden with crime, including Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Charlotte, N.C.
Minneapolis is the latest city targeted by the administration, with thousands of masked and armed agents on the streets, raiding business and homes. The Trump administration says the agents are targeting criminals who are in the United States illegally.
Since ICE ramped up its activities in Minneapolis in the past month, two U.S. citizens have been shot and killed at the hands of federal agents and a five-year-old child detained alongside his father.
Was Alex Pretti a 'would-be assassin’? We break down the footage of fatal ICE shooting | About ThatThousands of demonstrators have been drawn to the streets calling on ICE to leave the city.
"What Canadians are seeing south of the border, in Minnesota and beyond, is terrifying. The Trump administration's abuses have no limits," McPherson wrote in her letter.
Canadian business dealings
A number of Canadian companies reportedly have business with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE.
McPherson listed several examples in her letter, including the tech business Hootsuite. A U.S. government procurement website shows that the Vancouver-based company is providing social media services to DHS, with the contract beginning in August 2024.
Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky said in a statement Wednesday that "what we are watching unfold right now is wrong," but said that their contract with ICE does not include tracking or surveillance of individuals.
B.C. company criticized for potential ICE business dealB.C. billionaire Jim Pattison has also faced scrutiny over the possible sale of a Virginia warehouse to DHS for use as an ICE processing facility.
ICE itself has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel.
CBC News has reached out to the Prime Minister's Office for a response to McPherson's letter.
McPherson is currently running for her party's leadership. The NDP confirmed Thursday that the MP and four other candidates have cleared the final hurdle to be on the ballot in March. The other candidates include: activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis, union leader Rob Ashton, social worker Tanille Johnston and farmer Tony McQuail.
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Letter from Irina,
CEO of Hootsuite
What we are watching unfold right now is wrong.
The loss of life and the fear being felt in communities as a result of recent enforcement actions are devastating.
Beyond how painful it has been to process the current situation on a personal level, we have also felt the concern expressed about Hootsuite’s work with ICE’s public affairs office. I want to share how I think about this candidly, human to human.
We’ve worked with government organizations across countries and administrations for more than 15 years, including the U.S. government. Our use-case with ICE does not include tracking or surveillance of individuals using our tools. Any claim otherwise is false and prohibited under our terms of service, which we actively enforce.
Our technology makes public
conversation visible at scale. It helps organizations understand what
people are saying using unbiased, authentic social data - this helps
them understand how people are feeling, and where trust is being earned
or lost. Today more than ever, organizations need to hear more from the
public, not less. Our responsibility is to ensure those voices remain
visible. We work with a wide range of organizations because listening to
real conversations leads to insights that drive better decisions and
accountability, without endorsing specific actions or policies.
We
understand this is a complex issue and that people will hold strong
opinions. Our responsibility is to our customers, to the clear standards
that govern how our technology is used, and to ensuring public
conversation can be understood responsibly and at scale.
Hootsuite CEO responds to backlash over U.S. Homeland Security contract
Irina Novoselsky says contract with ICE does not include tracking or surveillance of individuals
The CEO of Vancouver-based tech company Hootsuite is responding to backlash over a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A U.S. government procurement website shows that Hootsuite is providing social media services to the DHS, with the contract beginning in August 2024.
The contract between Homeland Security and New York-based Seneca Strategic Partners is to provide "social media management platform Hootsuite and support services," and is worth up to $2.8 million US, according to the procurement website.
The site does not explain the relationship between Hootsuite and Seneca, which describes itself as a federal government contracting business wholly owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians.
A protest outside Hootsuite’s Vancouver headquarters is planned for Friday by a group called Democracy Rising, which is urging Hootsuite to "cancel its contracts and publicly apologize."
‘Insurrection’?: How Minnesota is being singled out in ‘largest’ crackdown ‘ever’ | About ThatICE has come under heavy criticism for its actions during a recent immigration crackdown in the state of Minnesota, with the deaths of two U.S. citizens in federal agent-involved shootings being a particular flashpoint.
Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky said in a statement Wednesday that "what we are watching unfold right now is wrong."
She said the loss of life and the fear being felt in communities as a result of recent enforcement actions are "devastating."
"Beyond how painful it has been to process the current situation on a personal level, we have also felt the concern expressed about Hootsuite’s work with ICE’s public affairs office," Novoselsky said.
Protesters, police clash outside hotel housing ICE agentsNovoselsky said Hootsuite has worked with government organizations across countries and administrations for more than 15 years, including the U.S. government.
"Our use-case with ICE does not include tracking or surveillance of individuals using our tools. Any claim otherwise is false and prohibited under our terms of service, which we actively enforce," she said.
A woman walks past the Hootsuite HQ in January 2020. (Ben Nelms/CBC) Novoselsky said Hootsuite's technology "makes public conversation visible at scale" and "helps organizations understand what people are saying using unbiased, authentic social data."
Her statement does not commit to an end to the contract, saying the company's responsibility is to its customers and standards that demonstrate how its technology is used.
"We work with a wide range of organizations because listening to real conversations leads to insights that drive better decisions and accountability, without endorsing specific actions or policies," the statement adds.
Contract with ICE ended in 2020
A release posted by the Department of Homeland Security last year says the department would only use Hootsuite to manage its social media channels to deliver information to the general public "while promoting transparency and accountability" for those seeking information from the department.
Hootsuite was founded in 2008 and employs about 1,000 people across the globe.
In 2020, the company's then-CEO Tom Keiser announced it had axed a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a "broad emotional and passionate'' reaction from staff.
He did not share why staff were concerned, but said the issue created a divided company and it was not the kind of business he wanted to lead, so he reversed the decision.
In an unrelated news conference Tuesday, B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma urged Canadian businesses to think about their role when considering business with ICE.
It comes after another B.C. company, Jim Pattison Developments, is in the process of selling one of its warehouses in Hanover, Va., to ICE.
B.C. attorney general wants businesses to 'think about their role' supporting ICEIn a statement, a spokesperson for Jim Pattison Developments said the property was publicly listed for sale after "operating needs changed," and an offer was accepted to sell to a U.S. government contractor.
"Some time later, we became aware of the ultimate owner and intended use of the building," the spokesperson wrote. "This transaction is still subject to certain approvals and closing conditions."
B.C. company criticized for potential ICE business dealWith files from The Canadian Press's Nono Shen and the CBC's Andrew Kurjata
Attorney General
Honourable Niki Sharma
Niki Sharma was elected MLA for Vancouver-Hastings in 2020 and previously served as the deputy caucus chair and parliamentary secretary for Community Development and Non-Profits.
Niki is a lawyer whose practice focused on representing Indigenous people, including residential school survivors. Niki has worked across B.C. as an advocate on climate policy and reconciliation. She has also been recognized for her work on combatting racism.
Niki was elected to the board of Vancity Credit Union where she served as vice-chair and chaired the Climate Justice Working Group. She also served as chair of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. In these roles, she worked to improve her community and make life better for people and our planet.
In 2017, Niki worked as a senior ministerial assistant helping to deliver more child care spaces for B.C. families.
Niki was raised in Sparwood, B.C. A mother of two, she has lived in East Vancouver for more than 15 years and has deep connections in the community.
B.C.'s attorney general urges Canadian businesses to 'think about their role' in supporting ICE operations
Several companies are facing pressure to back out of deals with ICE amid backlash
B.C.'s attorney general says Canadian companies should "think about their role" when considering whether to do business with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Niki Sharma, who also acts as the deputy premier, was asked at an unrelated news conference Tuesday morning about the backlash facing B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison, over the potential sale of a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for use as an ICE processing facility.
Pattison, whose conglomerate the Jim Pattison Group spans various sectors including real estate, automotive, media and groceries, is being urged by some to not move forward with the deal, citing the actions of ICE officers in the United States, including the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota.
Sharma says her government is watching those actions "with concern."
B.C. attorney general wants businesses to 'think about their role' supporting ICE"Just like the rest of the world, we watch in horror about what's happening there and I think that calls on business leaders across this province, and including the whole country, to think about their role in what is unfolding there, and to make decisions that would not lead to some of the outcomes that we're seeing unfold in the States," she said Tuesday.
Homeland Security sent a letter to the Hanover County planning department in Hanover, Va., last Wednesday, sharing its intent to "purchase, occupy and rehabilitate" the warehouse property owned by Jim Pattison Developments.
Property records show Jim Pattison Developments bought the building for roughly $10.4 million Cdn in 2022, and the site is expected to be valued at around $69 million Cdn this year, following improvements.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Jim Pattison Developments said the property was publicly listed for sale after "operating needs changed," and the transaction was still subject to certain approvals and closing conditions.
"As a matter of policy, we do not comment on private transactions," the spokesperson wrote.
"However, we understand that the conversation around immigration policy and enforcement is particularly heated, and has become much more so over the past few weeks. We respect that this issue is deeply important to many people."
U.S. wants to buy B.C. billionaire's Virginia warehouse to use as ICE facility | Hanomansing Tonight The statement did not make any further comment about ICE or the possible sale.
Food-workers union condemns sale
Among the businesses owned by the Pattison conglomerate are numerous grocery chains, including Save-On-Foods.
In a letter dated Jan. 26, the union representing Save-On-Foods employees, among 28,000 food workers across B.C., wrote to the Jim Pattison Group over the potential sale of the warehouse, saying it would contribute to "the dehumanization and targeting of immigrant workers.
"The labour movement in both Canada and the United States stands in solidarity with immigrant workers — many of whom are a part of our union and operate grocery stores belonging to the Pattison Group across Canada," reads the letter from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518.
"They work in our grocery stores, warehouses, and farms — these workers are an integral part of our communities, and they deserve dignity, respect, and safety."
Pattison isn't the only Canadian business facing these calls: as reported by The Globe and Mail, Vancouver tech company Hootsuite secured a $95,000 US pilot project with ICE in September that involves monitoring social media discussions about the immigration agency.
ICE has also earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order of 20 armoured vehicles from Brampton, Ont.-based defence manufacturer Roshel.
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'Mr. Trump, stop killing American citizens,' Kinew says after 2nd fatal shooting in Minnesota
Trade relation shouldn't prevent people from speaking with moral clarity, Manitoba premier says
Manitoba's premier says he's reached out to his counterpart in Minnesota again following the killing of another American citizen by federal immigration officials, calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to stop the violence.
Wab Kinew said he sent Governor Tim Walz a message of support and shared his outrage over the death of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis Saturday morning.
"You could be over here. You can even be a Trump supporter. I don't think anybody wants to see people shot in the middle of the street," Kinew told reporters during an unrelated news conference Monday.
"I don't think anybody wants to see people shot in the back. So we got to show support."
Trump administration officials rushed to defend the shooting over the weekend, saying Border Patrol agents shot the man "defensively" despite bystander videos contradicting that narrative.
A makeshift memorial is placed where Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis. (Adam Gray/The Associated Press) Kinew said he hopes American conservatives recognize it's time for "moral clarity."
"Mr. Trump, stop killing American citizens," he said. "The idea of trying to protect Americans from the bad parts of immigration by killing American citizens doesn't make any sense."
'We have to speak out'
The comment was in response to a question on what sort of plans the province has to deal with potential U.S. tariffs after Trump threatened to slap a 100 per cent levy on Canadian goods if the country "makes a deal with China."
Prime Minister Mark Carney said over the weekend the government is not pursuing a free trade agreement with that country.
"We're going to get a trade deal. We're going to do business with the U.S.," Kinew said.
"But we also have to be able to speak with integrity and look at ourselves in the mirror at the end of this. And at a time when we're seeing terrible things happening like are happening right next to us, we have to speak out."
Pretti's death comes two weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. Protests against a federal immigration crackdown in the U.S. city flared up in the aftermath of the shooting.
Kinew previously said he spoke with Walz shortly after Good was shot, offering to provide whatever assistance it can to the neighbouring U.S. state.
Manitoba stands with Minnesota, Premier Wab Kinew says after woman fatally shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis
Premier Wab Kinew says he spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about fatal shooting by U.S. immigration office
Premier Wab Kinew is voicing solidarity with Minnesotans after a woman was shot dead in Minneapolis by a U.S. immigration officer last week, setting off days of protests.
Kinew said he spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Monday after having also reached out to Minnesota Lt.-Gov. Peggy Flanagan shortly after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot Renee Nicole Good three times in her vehicle.
"I offered whatever assistance we could provide and of course the sense of solidarity that we could send down to our American friends and, in many cases, family," Kinew said at an unrelated news conference Monday in Winnipeg.
"I let him know that we here in Manitoba support our neighbours … and of course, we just want to see what's happening down there stop."
Video circulated Wednesday of an ICE agent firing three shots at Good, 37, while she was behind the wheel of her SUV in Minneapolis.
More footage emerged from the ICE officer's perspective Friday.
Those videos contradict characterizations by U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and others who have said Good was attempting to ram the officer with her SUV.
The shooting set off days of ongoing protests, with Walz declaring Friday a "day of unity" in the state in an attempt to tamp down tensions and prevent further violence.
"Regardless of where you stand on immigration, regardless of where you stand on Trump, I think everyone agrees that seeing a mother have her life taken in such a way is just wrong," Kinew said Monday.
"Let's just find a way to help our American neighbours make it through this difficult period in that country so that we can get back to a more positive way of life."
Third-world country comments
Kinew also pointed to recent statements by former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura who compared the U.S. to a "third-world country."
The Vietnam-war veteran and former Navy Seal equated the state of American politics under Trump to that of the dictatorship that emerged while he was deployed in the Philippines in the 1970s under then-president Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr.
"We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner. That's what happens in a dictatorship: In comes the military," Ventura told WCCO-CBS Minnesota. "That's what's happening here."
Kinew said he didn't have on his "2026 bingo card" that he would be agreeing with Ventura.
"Jesse Ventura said recently that America is becoming a third-world country when they have military police operations taking place in large cities. He's not wrong," Kinew said.
"That is something that should cause all of us concern."
He urged Manitobans to check in with American friends and family.
"I can tell you it meant a lot to Gov. Walz to have our province reach out and offer support. I think if you could do the same to American friends and relatives that would be greatly appreciated," he said.
"Thank God we're Canadian, and we're going to keep it that way."
Patrick Allard speaks at a 'Nahanni Must Go' protest outside the Manitoba Legislature on Oct. 1. (Bryce Hoye/CBC)The premier also said Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party would "have some explaining to do" on Monday after a member of its board posted comments on social media seeming to suggest support for ICE.
On Monday, PC Leader Obby Khan distanced the party from board member Patrick Allard and comments he made online about ICE over the weekend.
Khan said Allard has been suspended over "inappropriate and offensive" comments online following the fatal shooting and will not be permitted to run under the PC banner.
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Manitoba Tories suspend board member over online comments following fatal ICE shooting
PC Leader Khan condemns Patrick Allard, says he won't run for PCs in next election
The Tories are distancing themselves from a board member over social media comments he made after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot an American woman in Minneapolis.
Progressive Conservative Leader Obby Khan denounced an online post from Patrick Allard over the weekend, calling the statements "offensive and inappropriate."
"To make light of Renee Good, the mother of three, to try and justify in any way the killing of Renee Good, is unacceptable," Khan said at a news conference on Monday.
"There is no room for hate in this party, there is no room for these type of comments. Enough is enough."
In a post of his own, Khan on Monday said on social media that the statements made by Allard don't reflect the values of the PC party, and said Allard will not be a PC candidate in the upcoming election.
Khan said after an emergency meeting, the party decided unanimously to suspend Allard's party membership and his position on the board.
The move comes after Allard made comments on social media on the weekend.
"Do we have ICE in Manitoba? If so are they hiring? Asking for a friend," reads one post from Allard.
Allard made his comments amid days-long protests that erupted in Minneapolis following the death of Renee Nicole Good.
Video circulated Wednesday of an ICE agent firing three shots at Renee Nicole Good, 37, while she was behind the wheel of her SUV.
New video of Minneapolis shooting taken by ICE agentFootage taken by that immigration officer emerged Friday.
During an unrelated news conference on Monday, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said he reached out to Minn. Gov. Tim Walz to show solidarity.
"This is not something to be flippant about," Kinew said. "I think the Manitoba PCs will have some explaining to do on that front."
Khan said the PCs "do not stand for hate, do not stand for division."
"There is no room for it," he said.
Progressive
Conservative Leader Obby Khan addresses media on Monday after
announcing Patrick Allard has been suspended from his role on the party
board. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC)Allard was among several people fined thousands of dollars for opposing pandemic public health measures meant to stem the spread of COVID-19. He was fined over a dozen times, for a total of about $35,000.
In recent years Allard has run and lost in races at the school board trustee level and provincial politics. He ran as an independent in the last election in the St. Johns riding.
Last fall, a judge tossed a defamation lawsuit Allard filed against the NDP.
'Knee-jerk reaction': Allard
Allard said Khan has "made a very knee-jerk reaction to a somewhat comical post."
"What offends me may not offend you and what offends you may not offend me," Allard told CBC News on Monday.
In exchanges that ensued online after his original post, Allard responded to one person in the thread by saying Good "tried running them [ICE] over, and was rightfully terminated."
He said he used that phrasing because comments using words like "shot" or "killed" are likely to get flagged by Facebook.
"So the word 'terminated,' although it sounds probably more horrible, I would have said, if Facebook didn't have their censoring posts, like you know, on trigger words ... I would have used the word 'shot.' She was shot by the ICE agent in self-defence," Allard said.
Manitoba PCs suspend board member over ICE commentsAllard said he doesn't believe the Progressive Conservatives would have let him get the PC nomination next election and run against Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine in her riding of St. Johns.
He said the party is just progressive, not conservative, and is turning its back on its conservative base.
"They've shot themselves in the foot," Allard said. "They've told their conservative base, 'we don't want you' by making this move."
Allard said he still plans to run in St. Johns in the next election — possibly as an independent once again or for another party.
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Judge tosses anti-vaxxer's defamation lawsuit against Manitoba's New Democrats
'Necessary and appropriate' for NDP to call Patrick Allard's rhetoric 'racist,' judge says
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Manitoba's New Democrats that was launched after a failed political candidate and vaccine critic claimed he was defamed by one of the party's hopefuls in 2022.
Patrick Allard ran as an independent in the 2022 byelection in Manitoba's Fort Whyte riding to fill former premier Brian Pallister's empty seat — a race narrowly won by now Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Obby Khan.
In a written decision released Thursday, Manitoba Court of King's Bench Associate Chief Justice Shane Perlmutter rejected Allard's claim he was defamed when Manitoba's New Democrats described him as someone who spouts "racist rhetoric" in a March 2022 news release provided to the Winnipeg Free Press.
The NDP issued the release to explain why their candidate, Trudy Schroeder, did not want to participate in an all-candidates forum proposed by Liberal candidate (and now party leader) Willard Reaves that would have included Allard, Perlmutter's decision said.
"Trudy is happy to have a debate but the Liberal proposal to give Patrick Allard a platform to spout his anti-vaccination and racist rhetoric is wrong," the NDP's release said, which is quoted in the decision.
The quote was attributed to an unidentified party spokesperson at the time, but was revealed to have been written by Mark Rosner, who is now Premier Wab Kinew's chief of staff, Perlmutter wrote.
Allard — a vocal opponent of Manitoba's public health measures who was fined nearly $35,000 in 2022 for violating them — said he was defamed because the NDP's news release implied that he is a racist, which he denies, the decision says.
In his testimony, Rosner referred to remarks made on a comment chain — before the news release was issued — under a Facebook post that encouraged people to report those disobeying COVID-19 public health orders, in which Allard said to "turn in any attic hiding jews while you’re at it," the decision says.
Allard testified that his Facebook comments were misconstrued, since he was pointing out how people were encouraged by the government to turn in their Jewish neighbours during 1930s Germany's persecution of Jewish people, Perlmutter said.
Allard testified that he "was not comparing the systemic extermination of six million Jewish people and countless others to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was instead comparing the government’s actions of encouraging people to turn in their neighbours," Perlmutter wrote.
"As objectionable as Mr. Allard’s language, I am not satisfied that it is possible to determine in this instance and context, as a matter of truth or falsity, what spouting racist rhetoric means so as to determine whether in making his two offensive Facebook posts Mr. Allard was, in fact, spouting racist rhetoric."
Allard broke court rule
Perlmutter said testimony by Schroeder, Rosner and an NDP volunteer who helped draft the news release reflected their "sincerely held beliefs" that Allard's rhetoric "was, in fact, racist."
Perlmutter sided with the NDP's argument that while Allard was defamed, the party's comments are defensible under qualified privilege — the ability to make statements that might otherwise meet the legal definition of defamation if there's a legal, moral or social duty to make them.
Perlmutter said it was "both necessary and appropriate to the occasion" for the NDP to refer to Allard as spouting "racist rhetoric" in the news release because they were explaining concerns about him having a platform to do so.
Allard had sought at least $50,000 in general damages, as well as punitive and aggravated damages.
"Had I found in Mr. Allard’s favour, I would have awarded him nominal damages of $1," Perlmutter wrote.
However, the judge found that Allard had breached a court rule that says anyone involved in a matter before the court cannot use evidence or information received during that process for any purpose other than the court proceeding.
Allard submitted NDP text messages obtained through the court proceeding to the Winnipeg Sun, Perlmutter said.
Perlmutter said he accepted Allard's explanation that he had inadvertently breached the court rule because he wasn't aware of it.
Perlmutter concluded by saying that he does not want his ruling to be seen as a "license to publish, with impunity, remarks which may be defamatory and untrue about another simply because they are published in the context of an election campaign."
"To avoid exceeding [qualified] privilege, the comments in question must be relevant, necessary, and appropriate, as I found them to be in this case," he wrote.
Manitoba NDP spokesperson Evan Krosney, who also testified on behalf of the NDP during the court proceedings, said in a statement to CBC News that the party is pleased with the ruling and is committed to "defending our values in all venues."
Allard told CBC News on Friday that he found Perlmutter's ruling to be inconsistent and described qualified privilege as a legal "loophole" for defamation cases.
He is considering filing an appeal, he said.
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Former Blue Bomber Willard Reaves named new leader of Manitoba Liberal Party
Reaves, 66, rises to top job after other Liberal candidates failed to meet requirements
Former Winnipeg Blue Bomber Willard Reaves has been named the new leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party.
Reaves, 66, was declared winner of the party leadership contest on Monday.
No other candidates met the requirements of running for leader by the deadline on Saturday. As a result, Reaves was the sole qualified candidate and declared winner without a vote, according to Sam Dixon, the party's executive director.
Dixon confirmed a leadership convention that would have otherwise taken place on Oct. 25 has been cancelled.
Reaves, a star running back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1983 to 1987 fills a void left by former party leader Dougald Lamont, who was elected MLA for St. Boniface in 2018 and served that constituency until losing his seat in the 2023 provincial election.
He resigned and Cindy Lamoureux has been interim leader ever since.
Reaves first ran for the Manitoba Liberals in a March 2022 byelection in Fort Whyte. He lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Obby Khan, who was is now the leader of that party.
He ran again in the riding for the Liberals and lost in the fall 2023 provincial election. Lamoureux (Tyndall Park) was the lone Liberal elected, so the Liberals failed to meet the minimum threshold of four MLAs required for official party status.
Former
Winnipeg Blue Bomber Willard Reaves, left, is joined by former Manitoba
Liberal leader Jon Gerrard on Sept. 7 as Reaves announced his intention
to run for leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party. (Gavin Axelrod/CBC)Reaves briefly served as deputy leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from November 2023 to June 2024.
He launched his leadership campaign earlier this month. Reaves, who lives in Fort Whyte, said at the launch that he had not yet decided which riding he would run in during the next general election.
Terry Hayward, president of the Liberals, said Reaves will transition into the new position over the coming weeks.
"Mr. Reaves brings a wide range of experiences to the position of party leader," Hayward said in a statement. "He will work closely with Cindy Lamoureux, our sitting member, to champion issues and concerns of Manitobans across the province."'
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2 Native American-owned corporations cancel contracts with ICE
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chairman calls reservations the 'first attempts at detention centres'
The front gate of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in Batavia, N.Y. (Ousama Farag/CBC)Last week, a second Native American-owned corporation announced it was severing a multi-million dollar contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after community pressure.
A subsidiary of Oneida ESC Group, a corporation owned by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, cancelled a US $3.8 million contract with ICE for engineering and inspection of federal facilities after the Oneida government became aware of and condemned the contract. The Oneida government also replaced the subsidiary's board of managers.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s Chairman Tahassi Hill, in an email to CBC Indigenous, wrote that every nation should have the power to determine its own vision and values.
"When issues arise that conflict with our laws, policies and core values, we must remain steadfast in acting immediately," the statement said.
Last month, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas announced it had cancelled a US $29.9 million contract for planning, research and concept designs for secure structures that its corporation had with ICE, and had fired senior members of the corporation's leadership.
“We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centres. We were placed here because we were treated as prisoners of war,” said Prairie Band Tribal Chairman Joseph “Zeke” Rupnick, in a statement on YouTube.
“We must ask ourselves why we would ever participate in something that mirrors the harm and trauma once done to our people.”
Becky Webster, an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and former senior staff attorney for the tribe, said tribal corporations operate independently from nations, so they can more nimbly expand into different economic ventures. It also protects the nation from certain legal liabilities.
Becky
Webster, an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and its
former senior staff attorney, said she was 'shocked' to learn her nation
had a contract with ICE. (Submitted by Becky Webster)Corporate boards provide oversight of daily operations rather than the nation, though there is regular reporting.
Webster said she was shocked when she learned her nation held a contract with ICE.
“The nature of the contracts runs counter to who I thought we were as a people and the values that we hold,” she said.
Matthew L. M. Fletcher, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and a professor of law and American culture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the contracts are examples of affirmative action programs dating back to the 1960s and 1970s that favoured historically disadvantaged, minority-owned businesses.
Tribally owned corporations, Alaska Native corporations (created by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971), Native Hawaiian organizations and businesses that are 51 per cent tribally owned are eligible for preferences in contracting under the federal section 8(a) program.
Matthew
L.M. Fletcher, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and
Chippewa Indians, is a law professor at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, Mich. (Submitted by Matthew L.M. Fletcher)8(a) is a contracting and business development program for small business owners who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
“Congress created what they called set asides to make sure that at least a portion of defence contracting and other federal government contracting went to minority-owned businesses,” Fletcher said.
He said around the 2000s provisions were expanded, removing a cap for Indigenous-owned businesses, eliminating some paperwork still required by other minorities and authorizing no-bid awards to tribally owned or Alaska Native corporations.
While other affirmative action programs have been ended by the current administration, 8(a) was not affected.
“The weird thing is that the Trump people would never go in with Indigenous peoples as a matter of principle given their political stance against what they call DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion],” Fletcher said in an email.
“But the legal position these tribes are in makes this kind of contracting very attractive to them.”
Fletcher said tribes are not publicly traded corporations, so they don't have to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and "generally don't have to share information in terms of public accountability to anybody."
And for matters of national security, public requests for information can be ignored, he said.
Pass-through entities
Akima, a business portfolio of NANA Regional Corporation, which is owned by 11 Iñupiaq villages in Northwest Alaska, holds multi-million dollar contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, including in relation to detention services at the Guantanamo Bay naval base.
NANA and Akima did not respond to requests for comment by time of publishing.
An April 10, 2025 statement on NANA's website said "Since 2013, NANA and our affiliated companies have secured federal contracts in support of U.S. government-owned detention facilities. We have robust internal policies and compliance programs in place to ensure operations align with legal and ethical expectations."
In the statement, board chair Piquk Linda Lee was quoted, “NANA does not deviate from our Iñupiat Iḷitqusiat values in the pursuit of contracts. Our values are fundamental to who we are as people and as professionals. They guide everything we do at NANA – upholding the dignity and wellbeing of every person.
“While we are limited in what we can share publicly about specific customers and contracts, we remain committed to transparency for our shareholders and accountability in all that we do.”
Fletcher said other Alaska Native corporations, the Mississippi Choctaw, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw and some tribes in Oklahoma also do logistics work for the federal government, Fletcher said.
He said often these tribal corporations operate as pass-through or "strawman" entities.
“They will never do any of the work. They just happen to have that legal advantage of being eligible for no-bid contracting with no monetary cap on it,” Fletcher said.
Writer and environmentalist Winona LaDuke from White Earth Reservation in Minnesota said the situation today reminds her of the early '80s.
"They were trying to peddle nuclear waste and like 16 of the 20 recipients of the initial grants were Indian tribes,” she said.
“That was because there was a lot of money involved — no-strings money — and poor people with a lot of pressure on them.”
Winona LaDuke is from White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. (Submitted by Winona LaDuke )She said turning Indigenous people into corporations is a colonization process.
"Then you make them dependent upon the destruction of the world that they value," she said.
LaDuke said she thinks some of the contracts taken by some Alaska Native corporations are "morally reprehensible.”
She said tribes like the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin should pay more attention to their business operations in the future because if their citizens had not "sparked an outrage," they might still have the ICE contracts.
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Matthew L.M. Fletcher, ’97, is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes in the areas of federal Indian law, American Indian tribal law, Anishinaabe legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, federal courts, and legal ethics. He sits as the chief justice of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. He also sits as an appellate judge for the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, and the Tulalip Tribes.
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Aaniin Boozhoo Gaa-waabaabiganikaag
Niminwendam Waabaminaan!
Gichi-Manidoo-Giizis!
Aaniish inaa akawe ninga-gaagiizomaag aadi-zookaanag.
Weweni-sago-na
Greetings White Earth Nation I am Happy to See You!
It is already January the Great Spirit Moon!
Everyone Be Safe.
Many moons ago, our Anishinaabe ancestors journeyed here from the eastern edge of Turtle Island, North America following the waters from the Atlantic coast on up through the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, through Mashkiki-Ziibiing, meaning Medicine River but the colonizers deemed it Bad River like many other sacred places we have. Mashkiki Ziibiing is the heart of Turtle Island. I have ancestors from there; Bad place was never bad to us; it was made “bad” only by those who did not understand its power strength to us.
Our relatives remain scattered along that great water road, bound together by blood, memory, and
language. We were taught long ago that no force could ever erase us as
long as we continued to speak our words and tell our stories, passing
them down from gichi-aya'aag gagwewinan gagwejitoonan miinawaa
gagwewidamawinan – teachings that are carried and remembered,
abinoonjiinyag, elders to children hand to hand, breath to breath, and
generation to generation.
We are still here because our ancestors knew this.
Our old teachings were written on wiigwaas, birchbark scrolls, and actually some of those sacred
records have found their way home again to Gaawaabaabiganikaag Ishkoning, White Earth Nation
a few years ago. That return did not happen by accident. It came at the
right time, because we now walk in the era of the Seventh Fire which is
being ignited by our children and grandchildren, the Oshki Ogimaag who
came here just to do just that.
It is said they are the ones who will heal us all and take us out of Historical Trauma. They are igniting the Eighth and Final Fire as we speak and it is prophesized they are the ones who will take us up and out of Historical Trauma. My grandma said, “Those 8th Fire babies weren’t created like us or our ancestors they come here as healers not affected by their elders’ history.”
Each fire marks a chapter of our Anishinaabe history, before the arrival of the gichi-mookomaanag,
long knife people (White race) - to these modern days, reminding us of
what our people endured and how we survived. These teachings slow us
down, steady our hearts, and remind us who we truly are as Anishinaabeg.
White Earth State Forest/Tamarac Refuge
We have been working hard for the return of the 160,000-acre White Earth
State Forest to the White Earth Band of Anishinaabe. White Earth
Nation’s goal is the management and return of the White Earth State
Forest to protect the resources in an environmentally positive manner
for the benefit of present and future generations and to ensure the
forest lands on the White Earth State Forest are managed in an
environmentally sensitive, sustainable, and economically viable manner.
And manage the forest land in balance with the conservation of natural,
aesthetic, and our own
Anishinaabe cultural values.
We have made great strides in clarifying the White Earth Band’s treaty rights and regulatory
authority in the entirety of the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, including both the portion located
within the White Earth Nation and the portion within the 1855 Treaty
Territory. The Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge encompasses
approximately 42,724 acres. A little over half of the Refuge (24,162
acres) is located within the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe’s Reservation, and the rest of the Refuge is located within the
1855 Treaty Territory
wherein the Band retains hunting, fishing and gathering rights.
Elder Tiny Homes
In an increasing need for Elder housing, White Earth Builders completed
and turned over the keys to Elder Tiny Homes in Rice Lake (10),
Naytahwaush (6), White Earth (4) and Pine Point (2). These homes were
proudly manufactured by Dynamic Homes of Detroit Lakes, a company owned
by Ho-Chunk Inc., the award-winning economic development corporation of
the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
White Earth Buys Land Near Moorhead
The White Earth Band recently purchased 280 acres east of Moorhead at
the intersection of Interstate 94 and Highway 336 at a local land
auction. This purchase is part of our broader efforts to support the
long-term economic and cultural sustainability of our people. As
stewards of our own future, we are continuously exploring opportunities
to diversify our economic initiatives, which may include but are not
limited to housing, education, environmental preservation, business
development, and cultural enrichment.
Bison Program
The White Earth Bison Program continues to move forward with our goals
and initiatives. The program recently expanded its herd with the arrival
of 45 new bison, which includes yearlings, mature cows and two cow and
calf pairs. The program welcomed its first calf to its breeding herd
near Naytahwaush. This historic birth marks a new chapter in our ongoing
efforts to restore the bison to Anishinaabe lands. We are very excited
about continuing to move this program forward and anticipate further
requests related to the program. Whether those requests are for
meat/con-
sumption or for any ceremonial purposes or items (hides, bones, skulls,
etc.) we look forward to doing our best to accommodate these requests
and leading in a good way.
Waabigwan Mashkiki Celebrates Historic Grand Opening
On May 24 in Moorhead, Minn., we made history as the first tribal
cannabis dispensary to operate off-reservation in the state of
Minnesota. This moment is not only a step forward for White Earth but a
strong message of sovereignty and vision for all of Anishinaabe Country.
A second dispensary was opened on July 2 in St. Cloud, Minn. This is
only the beginning. As we move forward ahead of any tribe in Minnesota,
we remember that true growth takes patience.
White Earth Public Transit Building
A groundbreaking ceremony was held this spring for a new Transit building in Waubun.
This building will house a bus wash bay, mechanic bays, bus storage, indoor transfer and
passenger waiting area, administrative offices and dispatch center. Transit looks forward to
serving the people of White Earth and surrounding areas with your transportation needs. The
building is expected to be completed in early or late fall of 2026.
Severe Thunderstorm Damage
A powerful wind storm swept through the White Earth Reservation on the evening of June
20, leaving widespread damage in its wake. The severe thunderstorm
brought down trees, disrupted power lines, and left many residents
without electricity—some for days. White Earth
Emergency Management, in partnership with White Earth Public Safety and White Earth
Conservation, led efforts to assist affected residents. Emergency generators were delivered to
Elders and individuals with medical needs, and water was provided where service had been disrupted.
Highway 59 Homes
It’s with deep pride and hope for our future that I share exciting news about a new initiative
that is not only rooted in economic growth, but in service to our people: Highway 59 Homes.
This new tribally owned business is more than a home dealership—it’s a bold step forward
in our mission to create opportunity, stability, and prosperity for our
families. Located in Waubun, this project is a product of the Nation’s
business arm, Mississippi Pillager LLC, and it stands as another example
of what we can accomplish when we invest in ourselves. Highway 59 Homes
will offer high-quality, affordable manufactured homes.
These aren’t just structures—they are fresh start for young families, a dignified downsizing option for our elders and a real path to home ownership for those who’ve long waited for the chance.
Child Care Building/Library
A brand-new Child Care building located near the White Earth RBC
building opened for business. This beautiful learning facility will
provide more opportunities for our children in their early stages of
development. These children are our future. In addition to the new
building, the library was relocated on site and is expected open to the
community in the summer.
Wild Rice
We had another record breaking year for purchasing wild rice! The 2025
manoomin harvest season has been a remarkable year for our community.
White Earth purchased a total of
320,699 pounds of manoomin from ricers, making this the largest year for rice purchasing in
our history. This year, White Earth compensated ricers with a total payout of $1,747,299. WENR
purchased 176,895 pounds of rice at $5 per pound, amounting to $884,475, and 143,804
pounds at $6 per pound, totaling $862,824. These figures not only highlight the economic
significance of the Manoomin harvest but also underscore the importance of making sure this
valuable food source is accessible to our tribal membership.
In addition, several major infrastructure projects were also completed this year at Lower Rice Lake through a collaborative effort involving several programs. At Ponsford and Bush Landings, wood corduroy walkways with gravel overlays were installed, providing improved access to the water’s edge. Boulders were strategically placed at the start of each walkway to prevent damage from ATVs and UTVs. Parking areas were also expanded to improve traffic flow and accommodate more vehicles. The old channel at Big Bear Landing was reopened after years of overgrowth, allowing ricers to travel directly from the parking area to the lake. All four landings are now equipped with poles that will support solar-powered lights and navigation flags.
Ojibwe Language Immersion
As council we are really pushing for our future Ojibwe
Gaawaabaabiganikaag Language immersion school. Our Language and Culture
Director Rob Tibbetts is making headway. I talked to him recently at the
Naytahwaush Sobriety Powwow; he said, “Yes, but it will be very
difficult.” So as council I will keep you updated with his progress. Rob
is our Spiritual Advisor at many of our programs and events also.
White Earth Health System and 638 Process
We are excited our Health Board will be running our own health clinics on June 1, 2026.
(Self-Governance) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (ISDEAA), Public Law 93-638, which allows tribes to
assume control and management of IHS health programs, offering greater
flexibility than Title I contracts, though often used alongside it for
broader self-determination in healthcare delivery. It’s a key legal
framework for tribal self-governance, enabling us as White Earth Nation
(WEN) to operate federal health services directly, moving from federal
administration (IHS) to our own control.
As we enter into 2026, I’d like to thank everyone for your support and the most successful year ever - 2025! Looking back last year we dealt with land issues, addressed housing concerns, moved forward with our Waabigwan Mashkiki business, expanded our Bison heard, created Highway 59 Homes, bought land in Moorhead for the future casino - plus so much more! I am excited for us as Gaawaabaabiganikaag Ishkoning- White Earth Nation.
Chi-miigwech bizindawiyeg miinawaa anooj
ninda-gikinoo’amaadiwin
Gigawaabamininim naagaj.
Thank you for listening and continuing to learn together.
Take it easy.
See you all later.
Chairman Michael Fairbanks
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar considering run for Minnesota governor after Tim Walz ends reelection bid, sources say
What difference a day makes EH
Tim Walz scraps Minnesota re-election campaign amid state fraud scandals
Walz had announced bid for 3rd term, but pandemic-era fraud cases hurt his record
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is ending his bid for a third term, less than four months after announcing his re-election campaign.
Walz, who was part of the Democratic U.S. presidential ticket last year as Kamala Harris's running mate, said in a statement Monday that he could no longer devote the energy necessary to win another term, even as he expressed confidence that he could win.
He cited ongoing attention on the fraud cases and described an "extraordinarily difficult year for our state," while also noting the accomplishments of his first seven years in office.
U.S. President Donald Trump and other Republicans have relentlessly focused on a fraud investigation into child-care programs in Minnesota in social media posts and interviews on right-wing cable news shows.
Trump’s administration announced last week that it was freezing child-care funds to Minnesota and demanding an audit of some daycare centres after a series of fraud cases involving state government programs in recent years.
"Donald Trump and his allies — in Washington, in St. Paul and online — want to make our state a colder, meaner place," Walz said, referring to the Trump administration withholding funds for the programs.
"They want to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbours. And, ultimately, they want to take away much of what makes Minnesota the best place in America to raise a family."
The bitterness between Trump and Walz has continued long after the 2024 campaign.
After former Democratic state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in June, part of a violent spree where a suspect is also charged with shooting State Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife on the same day, Trump declined to call Walz to express his condolences on behalf of the White House, saying it would be a "waste of time."
On Saturday, Trump shared a social media post on Truth Social that alleged a wild conspiracy theory implicating Walz in Hortman's death. Both Walz and Hortman's children condemned the post and urged him to take it down.
"Dangerous, depraved behaviour from the sitting president of the United States," Walz said in his own social media post in response. "In covering for an actual serial killer, he is going to get more innocent people killed."
From high school to politics
Harris picked Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election, citing his history across a range of experiences in advocating for working families.
Walz, who grew up in the small town of West Point, Neb., was a social studies teacher and high school football coach before he got into politics. He also served in the U.S. national guard for 24 years.
On Monday evening, Harris wrote on social media that Walz is "always guided by what's best for the people of Minnesota," and "his decision not to seek re-election reflects that same selfless commitment to the people he serves."
Walz flipped a Republican seat in rural Minnesota in 2006 to represent the state in U.S. Congress. He was viewed as a moderate Democrat who supported gun rights and was elected to the House of Representatives six times before leaving to run for governor in 2018.
During that campaign, Walz got a warm welcome from Democratic voters due to his folksy charm, and his attack line against Trump and his running mate, JD Vance — "These guys are just weird" — spread widely. But he drew mixed reviews for his lone debate against Vance.
Defends Somali community from Trump attacks
Through nearly two terms as governor, Walz navigated a closely divided legislature. In his first term, he served alongside a Democratic-led House and Republican-controlled Senate that resisted his proposals to use higher taxes to boost money for schools, health care and roads. But he helped broker compromises.
After the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, Walz pleaded for calm but also stood out as a white political leader who expressed empathy toward Black Americans and their experiences with police violence.
In his second term, Walz worked with Democratic majorities in both legislative chambers to chart a more liberal course in state government, aided by a huge budget surplus.
Minnesota eliminated nearly all of the state abortion restrictions enacted in the past by Republicans, protected gender-affirming care for transgender youth and legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Walz and his fellow Democrats also enacted free school meals for all students and a paid family and medical leave program that went live on Jan. 1.
But he has been plagued by a $300-million US pandemic food fraud scheme revolving around the non-profit Feeding Our Future, for which 57 defendants in Minnesota have been convicted.
Most of those defendants were Somali American, but Walz and other Democrats have criticized Trump and his allies for statements that appeared to blame the entire diaspora for actions committed by just dozens of people.
Minnesota immigration crackdown met by organized oppositionThe Minneapolis-St. Paul area is home to about 84,000 residents of Somali descent, and the Trump administration's efforts to deport unauthorized American residents have included operations in the state.
Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin, another Minnesotan, said Monday that Walz "entered public life for the right reasons and never lost sight of them."
At the Republican Governors Association, spokesperson Courtney Alexander blasted Walz for "failed leadership" and argued that the eventual Democratic nominee "will need to defend years of mismanagement and misplaced priorities."
Around a dozen Republicans are already running in the party's primary to determine a gubernatorial candidate. The list includes a number of current and former state legislators, as well as MyPillow founder and chief executive Mike Lindell, a 2020 election denier who is close to Trump.
A total of 36 states hold gubernatorial elections in 2026, a midterm election year.
With files from CBC News
Sen. Amy Klobuchar considering run for Minnesota governor after Tim Walz ends reelection bid, sources say
Updated on: January 5, 2026 / 1:07 PM CST / CBS Minnesota
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Thursday, 31 May 2018
Perhaps folks should read paragraph 83 of my lawsuit against the Crown real slow and ask Jean Chrétien about it ASAP N'esy Pas?
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:11:23 -0400
Subject: Attn Debra Hilstrom, Keith Ellison, Matt Pelikan and Mike
Hatch I called all four of you correct? These are some of the issues
that one of you and I may argue someday EH Chuck Brown?
To: sean.broom@mail.house.gov, debra@debrahilstrom.com,
info@mattpelikan.com, mhatch@blackwellburke.com,
sen.patricia.torres.ray@
Press@bankofengland.co.uk, djtjr@trumporg.com, Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov,
Attorney.General@ag.state.mn.
motomaniac333@gmail.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
http://www.startribune.com/
Keith Ellison running for attorney general, opening congressional seat
Former Attorney General Mike Hatch, state Rep. Hilstrom also filed to
run for attorney general.
By Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune
Mike Hatch
Phone: 612.343.3289
Email: mhatch@blackwellburke.com
Representative Keith Ellison *, c/o Mr. Sean Broom, District Staff Assistant
Email: sean.broom@mail.house.gov
Phone: 612.522.1212
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:23:31 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the
markets to crash Methinks I should remind folks of the Bank of Canadas
long lost mandate, Harper's Bankster bail out 10 years ago and Trudeau
The Younger's recent Bankster Bail-In plan
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:49:05 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the
markets to crash Methinks I should remind folks of the Bank of Canadas
long lost mandate, Harper's Bankster bail out 10 years ago and Trudeau
The Younger's recent Bankster Bail-In plan
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From: "Justin, Neal" <Neal.Justin@startribune.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:06:36 +0000
Subject: RE: Gosh I wonder if Garrison Keillor and his old buddies in
the Star Tribune remember mean old me?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I'd like to know what you want to talk about.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 2:05 PM
To: Justin, Neal <Neal.Justin@startribune.com>; Klingensmith, Michael
<Michael.Klingensmith@
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<Chuck.Brown@startribune.com>; Lebedoff, Randy
<Randy.Lebedoff@startribune.
Subject: Re: Gosh I wonder if Garrison Keillor and his old buddies in
the Star Tribune remember mean old me?
FYI I just called these guys and left voicemails as well and told them
to expect the email below after your newsroom lady had no time to
listen to me and you did not bother to call me back. I would more than
happy to explain to Randy Lebedoff and Chuck Brown
http://www.startribunecompany.
On 2/16/18, Meitrodt, Jeff <Jeff.Meitrodt@startribune.com
> Could you be a little more direct?
> This is a pretty long email chain. What’s the gist? If there’s a story
> here, what is it?
> I am out rest of day but am checking my email.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 2:05 PM, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/16/18, Justin, Neal <Neal.Justin@startribune.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry, I don't know what this means or what you're referring to. Doyou
>>> have
>>> some ties to Mr. Keillor or MPR?
>>
>>
>> FYI I just called these guys and left voicemails as well and told them
>> to expect the email below after your newsroom lady had no time to
>> listen to me and you did not bother to call me back. I would more than
>> happy to explain to Randy Lebedoff and Chuck Brown
>>
>> http://www.startribunecompany.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"
>> <fin.minfinance-financemin.
>> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:12:45 +0000
>> Subject: RE: Gosh I wonder if Garrison Keillor and his old buddies in
>> the Star Tribune remember mean old me?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
>> correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
>> comments.
>>
>> Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
>> électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
>> commentaires.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:13:23 +0000
>> Subject: Re: Gosh I wonder if Garrison Keillor and his old buddies in
>> the Star Tribune remember mean old me?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
>>
>> Kveðja / Best regards
>> Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:23:24 -0300
>>>> Subject: ATTN FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers Have you talked to
>>>> your buddies Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly about the wiretap tapes YET?
>>>> To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov,
>>>> bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>> Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov,
>>>> jcarney@carneybassil.com, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, birgittaj@althingi.is,
>>>> shmurphy@globe.com, redicecreations@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> FBI Boston
>>>> One Center Plaza
>>>> Suite 600
>>>> Boston, MA 02108
>>>> Phone: (617) 742-5533
>>>> Fax: (617) 223-6327
>>>> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>>>>
>>>> Hours
>>>> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
>>>> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
>>>> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any
>>>> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
>>>> office at (617) 742-5533.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
>>>> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
>>>> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
>>>> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
>>>> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
>>>> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com,
>>>> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, wolfheartlodge@live.com, shmurphy@globe.com,
>>>> >> jonathan.albano@bingham.com, mvalencia@globe.com
>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>>> PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bostonglobe.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>>
>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must ask
>>>> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>
>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>>> cards?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>
>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>
>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>> United States Senate
>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>
>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>>> tapes.
>>>>
>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>>
>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> To: "Rob Talach" rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing
>>>> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>>>>
>>>> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean
>>>> a lot to you
>>>>
>>>> http://www.checktheevidence.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
>>>> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
>>>> Bernadine Chapman??
>>>> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca,
>>>> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
>>>> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
>>>> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca,
>>>> webo@xplornet.com, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
>>>> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1@parl.gc.ca,
>>>> Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca,Cleme
>>>> >> oig@sec.gov, whistleblower@finra.org, whistle@fsa.gov.uk,
>>>> david@fairwhistleblower.ca
>>>> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
>>>> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.
>>>> Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>>> Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca,
>>>> ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/
>>>>
>>>> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/
>>>>
>>>> From: Gilles Moreau Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
>>>> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
>>>> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
>>>> Constable Peddle???
>>>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>>>>
>>>> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
>>>> Director General
>>>> HR Transformation
>>>> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
>>>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>>>>
>>>> Tel 613-843-6039
>>>> Cel 613-818-6947
>>>>
>>>> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
>>>> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
>>>> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
>>>> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>>>>
>>>> tél 613-843-6039
>>>> cel 613-818-6947
>>>> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>
>>
>>
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Subject: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
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Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar considering run for Minnesota governor after Tim Walz ends reelection bid, sources say
Updated on: January 5, 2026 / 1:07 PM CST / CBS Minnesota
Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is seriously considering a run for governor in the wake of Tim Walz's decision Monday to end his bid for a third term.
Sources close to Klobuchar tell CBS News she is getting outreach encouraging her to run, but that she has not made a final decision yet.
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"Governor Walz led our state ably through COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd, two of the most difficult moments in our state's history. He signed balanced budgets, worked to find compromise in divided government, and — working with Melissa Hortman and Kari Dziedzic — signed historic legislation into law in 2023 that will benefit Minnesotans for generations to come," Stephenson said.
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Minnesota leaders react after Gov. Tim Walz announces he's ending reelection bid
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January 5, 2026 / 9:46 AM CST / CBS Minnesota
"Tim Walz is a remarkable leader, and Minnesota has benefitted immensely from the compassion he brought to his decades of public service," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison noted that the two of them have had similar paths to public office: they were elected to Congress in the same year, and both were elected to statewide office in 2018. https://www.naag.org/attorney-
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(443) 560-0640Area of Responsibility: Maryland
- Baltimore - OPEBaltimore - Community Relations Officer
40 South Gay Street, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
Area of Responsibility: Maryland
- Baltimore - HSIHSI Maryland
40 South Gay Street
3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 962-2620
Recruiting: HSIBaltimoreRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (410) 962-3469Area of Responsibility: Maryland
- Batavia - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Buffalo (Batavia)
Buffalo Federal Detention Facility
4250 Federal Drive
Batavia, NY 14020
(585) 344-6600 - Boston - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Boston
15 New Sudbury Street, Room 425
Boston, MA 02203
(857) 416-3701Area of Responsibility: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
- Boston - HSIHSI Boston
10 Causeway Street
Room 722
Boston, MA 02222
Phone: (857) 557-2762
Recruiting: HSINewEnglandRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (617) 565-7422Area of Responsibility: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
- Brooklyn Heights - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Detroit (Cleveland)
925 Keynote Circle, Room 201
Brooklyn Heights, OH 44131
(216) 749-9955 - Buffalo - HSIHSI Buffalo
250 Delaware Ave
Suite 814
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: (716) 464-5900
Recruiting: HSIBuffaloRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (716) 464-6087Area of Responsibility: New York state
(minus New York City surrounding areas) - Buffalo - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Buffalo
250 Delaware Avenue, Suite 773
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 464-6000Area of Responsibility: Northern and Western New York
- Buffalo - OPEBuffalo - Community Relations Officer
130 Delaware Avenue, Ste 300
Buffalo, NY 14202
Area of Responsibility: Western, Central & Northern New York State
- Buffalo - EROBuffalo Field Office
250 Delaware Avenue, Floor 7
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 464-5800Area of Responsibility: Upstate New York
Email: Buffalo.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Burlington - EROBoston Field Office
1000 District Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803
(781) 359-7500Area of Responsibility: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Email: Boston.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Centennial - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Denver
12445 East Caley Avenue
Centennial, CO 80111-6432
(983) 212-0405Area of Responsibility: Colorado, Idaho (ERO) , Montana, Utah, and Wyoming
- Centennial - OPEDenver - Community Relations Officer
12445 E. Caley Ave
Centennial, CO 80111
Area of Responsibility: Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
- Centennial - ERODenver Field Office
12445 E. Caley Avenue
Centennial, CO 80111
(720) 873-2899Area of Responsibility: Colorado, Wyoming
Email: Denver.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Chantilly - OPEWashington – Community Relations Officer
14797 Murdock Street
Mail Stop 5216
Chantilly, VA 20598-5216
Area of Responsibility: District of Columbia and Virginia
- Chantilly - EROWashington Field Office
14797 Murdock Street
Mail Stop 5216
Chantilly, VA 20598-5216
(703) 633-2100Area of Responsibility: District of Columbia and Virginia
- Chaparral - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, El Paso (Chaparral)
Trial Attorney Unit
26 McGregor Range Road
Chaparral, NM 88081
(915) 834-5200 - Charlotte - HSIHSI Charlotte
3700 Arco Corporate Drive
Suite 300
Charlotte, NC 28273
Phone: (704) 679-6140
Recruiting: HSICharlotteRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (704) 679-6143Area of Responsibility: North Carolina, South Carolina
- Charlotte - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Atlanta (Charlotte)
5701 Executive Center Drive, Suite 300
Charlotte, NC 28212
(704) 248-9605 - Chicago - OPEChicago - Community Relations Officer
101 W Ida B. Wells Parkway
Chicago, IL 60605
Area of Responsibility: Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin
- Chicago - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Chicago
55 E. Monroe Street
Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 260-9513Area of Responsibility: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin
- Chicago - EROChicago Field Office
101 W Ida B Wells Drive
Suite 4000
Chicago, IL 60605
(872) 351-3990Area of Responsibility: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas
Email: Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Conroe - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Houston (Conroe)
Montgomery Processing Center
806 Hilbig Road
Suite 2-201
Conroe, TX 77301
(936) 520-5870 - Dallas - ERODallas Field Office
8101 N. Stemmons Frwy
Dallas, TX 75247
(972) 367-2200Area of Responsibility: North Texas, Oklahoma
Email: Dallas.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Dallas - OPEDallas - Community Relations Officer
8101 N. Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75247
Area of Responsibility: North Texas and Oklahoma
- Detroit -Detroit Field Office
985 Michigan Avenue
Suite 207
Detroit, MI 48226
Area of Responsibility: Michigan, Ohio
Email: Detroit.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Detroit - HSIHSI Detroit
477 Michigan Avenue
Suite 1850
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: (313) 226-0500
Recruiting: HSIDetroitRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (313) 226-6282Area of Responsibility: Michigan, Ohio
- Detroit - OPEDetroit - Community Relations Officer
477 Michigan Avenue, Ste 1850
Detroit, MI 48226
Area of Responsibility: Michigan and Ohio
- Detroit - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Detroit
Rosa Parks Federal Building
985 Michigan Avenue, Suite 1010
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 771-6500Area of Responsibility: Michigan and Ohio
- Dilley - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, San Antonio (Dilley)
South Texas Family Residential Center
300 El Rancho Way
Dilley, TX 78017
(830) 378-6500
- El Paso - EROEl Paso Field Office
11541 Montana Ave
Suite E
El Paso, TX 79936
(915) 225-1901Area of Responsibility: West Texas, New Mexico
Email: ElPaso.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- El Paso - HSIHSI El Paso
11541 Montana Avenue
Suite H
El Paso, TX 79936
Phone: (915) 856-2315
Recruiting: HSIElPasoRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (915) 857-6083Area of Responsibility: New Mexico, northwest Texas
- El Paso - OPEEl Paso - Community Relations Officer
11541 Montana Avenue
El Paso, TX 79925
Area of Responsibility: West Texas and New Mexico
- El Paso - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, El Paso
11541 Montana Avenue, Suite O
El Paso, TX 79936
(915) 856-2316Area of Responsibility: West Texas and New Mexico
- Elizabeth - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Newark (Elizabeth)
Elizabeth Detention Facility
625 Evans Street, Room 135
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
(908) 282-5755 - Eloy - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Phoenix (Eloy)
Eloy Detention Center
1705 East Hanna Road
Eloy, AZ 85131
(520) 464-3032 - Fairfax - OPRSpecial Agent in Charge – East
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 877-1510Serving the following states and territories: ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, DC, PR, USVI
- Florence - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Phoenix (Florence)
Florence Detention Center
3250 N. Pinal Parkway Avenue
Florence, AZ 85132
(520) 868-3310 - Fort Snelling - OPESt. Paul - Community Relations Officer
1 Federal Drive, Ste 1340
Fort Snelling, MN 55111
Area of Responsibility: Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota
- Fort Snelling - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Minneapolis-St. Paul
1 Federal Drive, Suite 1800
Fort Snelling, MN 55111
(612) 843-8935Area of Responsibility: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota
- Fort Snelling - EROSt Paul Field Office
1 Federal Drive
Suite 1601
Fort Snelling, MN 55111
(612) 409-7799Area of Responsibility: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
Email: StPaul.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
- Fort Snelling - HSIHSI Minneapolis/St. Paul
1 Federal Drive
Suite 1340
Fort Snelling, MN 55111
Phone: (612) 843-8800
Recruiting: HSIStPaulRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (612) 843-8921Area of Responsibility: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
- Greenwood Village - HSIHSI Denver
5445 DTC Pkwy
Suite 600
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: (303) 721-3000
Recruiting: HSIDenverRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (303) 721-3003Area of Responsibility: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
- Guaynabo - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Miami (San Juan)
7 Tabonuco Street
Room 300 (Suite 313)
Guaynabo, PR 00968
(787) 706-2352 - Harlingen - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, San Antonio (Harlingen)
1717 Zoy Street, Annex
Harlingen, TX 78552
(956) 389-7051 - Harlingen - EROHarlingen Field Office
1717 Zoy Street
Harlingen, TX 78552
(956) 389-7884Area of Responsibility: South Texas
- Harlingen - OPEHarlingen - Community Relations Officer
1717 Zoy Street
Harlingen, TX 78552
Area of Responsibility: Harlingen
- Hartford - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Boston (Hartford)
Ribicoff Federal Building
450 Main Street, Room 483
Hartford, CT 06103-3060
(860) 240-3615 - Honolulu - HSIHSI Honolulu
595 Ala Moana Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 529-1900
Recruiting: HSIHonoluluRecruitment@hsi.dhs.gov
Fax: (808) 532-4690Area of Responsibility: Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands
- Honolulu - OPLAOffice of the Principal Legal Advisor, Honolulu
300 Ala Moana Boulevard
Suite 7-220
Honolulu, HI 96850
(808) 529-1900Area of Responsibility: Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Saipan
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