Brian Laird on WNYC.

We'll talk about the Minnesota situation now in a national legal context.

Across the country, of course, federal immigration agents are expanding enforcement in ways that

are raising urgent legal questions, especially after, but also before federal agents killed

Alex Prattie and earlier Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, incidents where video evidence

contradicts the Trump administration's accounts.

Here's the breaking news this morning.

This is a New York Times version.

The headline is,

Judge orders ICE Chief to appear in court over potential contempt.

That's ICE's acting director, Todd Lyons.

The Times article says,

In a remarkable display of frustration, the chief federal judge in Minnesota ordered the head of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement ICE to appear in court on Friday

to explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating court orders arising from the Trump

administration's aggressive immigration

crackdown in the state.

It says in a brief ruling issued the judge Patrick J. Schlitz of Federal District Court in Minnesota

said he recognized that ordering ICE's acting director Toddons, to personally defend himself in court was,

quote, an extraordinary step, but Judge Schlitz, who was appointed by President George W. Bush,

said it was necessary because, quote, the extent of ICE's violation of court orders,

violation of court orders, is likewise extraordinary. With that, we welcome

Michelle Hackman, immigration policy reporter at the Wall Street Journal, who's going to unpack this

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