{"id":66356,"date":"2026-02-14T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/what-is-it-about-minnesota-that-made-it-a-target-for-trumps-ice-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:54:51","slug":"what-is-it-about-minnesota-that-made-it-a-target-for-trumps-ice-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/what-is-it-about-minnesota-that-made-it-a-target-for-trumps-ice-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic-leaning midwestern state where federal agents killed two citizens is in many ways anathema to the administration<\/p>\n<p>Since the federal immigration surge began late last year, Minnesotans have offered varying theories for why their state was targeted by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a midwestern state that hasn\u2019t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972, including the three times it voted against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/14\/why-minnesota-ice-crackdown-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic-leaning midwestern state where federal agents killed two citizens is in many ways anathema to the administration Since the federal immigration surge began late last year, Minnesotans have offered varying theories for why their state was targeted by the Trump administration. It\u2019s a midwestern state that hasn\u2019t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since &#8230; <a title=\"What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/what-is-it-about-minnesota-that-made-it-a-target-for-trumps-ice-crackdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}