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(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, organizers estimated, as thousands gathered, despite Arctic temperatures, in downtown Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Friday’s protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

“Roughly 100 clergy” were arrested, according to Trevor Cochlin of Faith in Minnesota, a progressive advocacy group and one of the organizers the protest at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. They were protesting the deportation of immigrants from the facility. Authorities have not said how many people were detained at the airport.

Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Jeff Lea said the protesters were arrested outside the main terminal because they went beyond the reach of their permit for demonstrating and disrupted airline operations.


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The Rev. Elizabeth Barish Browne traveled from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to participate in the rally in downtown Minneapolis.

“What’s happening here is clearly immoral,” the Unitarian Universalist minister said. “It’s definitely chilly, but the kind of ice that’s dangerous to us is not the weather.”

Protesters have gathered daily in the Twin Cities since Jan. 7, when Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Federal law enforcement officers have repeatedly squared off with community members and activists who track their movements.

Sam Nelson said he skipped work so he could join the march. He said he’s a former student of the Minneapolis high school, where federal agents detained someone after class earlier this month. That arrest led to altercations between federal officers and bystanders.