MINNEAPOLIS – Omar Jamal, a longtime leader in the local Somali community, was detained Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in downtown Minneapolis.
According to a Facebook post by his attorney, Abdiqani Jabane, Jamal is being held at the Freeborn County jail in Albert Lea, which is being used to hold ICE detainees.
It was not yet clear what prompted Thursday’s action. On Saturday morning, ICE spokeswoman Erin Bultje directed questions to an agency email address, but an inquiry sent the night before had not yet yielded a response…