WINONA, Minn. — Winona police remain in the dark whether federal deportation agents made any arrests on two recent missions Winona. “We didn’t have any information,” a police spokesperson said. The ICE immigration agency had notified Winona Police Chief Tom Williams about plans to send a detachment to Winona on January 16 and 17 but were secretive about time and place and who was targeted for arrest. Apparently empty-handed from the mission, the detachment planned to return January 23 and 24. Again there was no follow-up report. ICE is highly secretive about its operations and prefers to aboid public accountability Even advance courtesy calls, like Williams received, are rare.
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