Federal agents in Minnesota have arrested, and sent to Texas facilities, dozens of legal immigrants — refugees who had cleared strict vetting before being allowed to enter the United States, reports Miriam Jordan of The New York Times.

A local advocate estimates that at least 100 people, including children, have been detained.

Tracy Roy, legal director at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, said, "This has never happened, that you arrive as a refugee, and that on day 366, if you are still not a green card holder, you are deportable."

Sarah Thamer of Minnesota Public Radio News reports on the alarm the operation is causing among refugees in the state.

Also in Minneapolis, American citizens continue to be swept up in the immigration enforcement efforts, reports Conor Wight of CBS News Minnesota. Luis Escoto, a U.S. citizen since 1992, tearfully recounted his experience being detained as his wife (also a U.S. citizen) was surrounded by federal agents: "I love this country more than my life. If you ask me to give my life for it, I would give my life for my country."

Meanwhile, tensions between federal agents and residents in Minneapolis have grown within the past week, report Thomas Fuller and Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times.

Jason P. Houser, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief of staff and Customs and Border Protection counterterrorism official, writes in a USA Today op-ed, "Minnesota should be understood ... as a warning about what path we are on as a nation. When enforcement is driven by messaging instead of mission, when optics outweigh judgment and when leadership substitutes spectacle for strategy, the risk to officers, civilians and public safety increases exponentially."

And former acting ICE Director John Sandweg spoke with Politico about where the agency stands.

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LOCAL IMPACTS — The March 17 expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis would mean a risk of deportation for more than 400 Somali migrants living in Minnesota, reports Kyeland Jackson of The Minnesota Star Tribune. "These decisions place long-standing Minnesota residents — who have lived, worked, and raised families here legally — at immediate risk of losing their lawful status and being forced into uncertainty," a group of Minneapolis-area state legislators stated.

CONTESTED — The United States says Venezuela’s current instability offers no "feasible" way to allow a group of migrants sent there the opportunity to contest their deportations, report Zoe Tillman and Robert Burnson of Bloomberg. Justice Department officials told a judge that holding a video hearing for the group "would pose insurmountable legal and practical obstacles."

WELCOME, THEN WORRY — Three Afghan women in Manhattan, Kansas, who once found welcome in the United States now navigate a much more complicated situation after November's tragic shooting of two National Guard members, reports Robert Samuels of The Washington Post. The three women are Hazara, an ethnic group persecuted by the Taliban.