June 17, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – June 16, 2026

June 17, 2026 by George Bounacos

Large crowd of protesters filling a downtown Minneapolis street, many holding hand-lettered ICE OUT signs, January 2026.

Thousands filled downtown Minneapolis on January 23, 2026, demanding ICE leave a city where federal agents had killed one U.S. citizen and would kill another the next day. (Photo by Lorie Shaull, CC BY 4.0)

At the end of this month, Tennessee’s health department starts reporting sick children to ICE. The Children’s Special Services program is the last resort for the sickest children in the state, the ones on ventilators and feeding tubes and partway through chemo. The department told about 400 immigrant families that if their child keeps getting … Read more