There have been protests and confrontations in some US cities about how a government crackdown on immigration is being carried out. There's big focus on the city of Minneapolis, find out more here.

Despite the weather, thousands of protesters showed up to express their frustrations against federal agents and the Trump administration.

Minnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.

The demonstrators braved frigid temperatures in Manhattan following the death of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis.

Two activists arrested in connection to a protest at a church where the leader of a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office serves as a pastor were released from custody on Friday afternoon.

Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of sanctioned Iranian official Ali Larijani, lost her position at Emory University as activists called for review of her immigration status.

A protest has taken place in an East Sussex town after the government began housing asylum seekers at a military site. Plans were announced in October to accommodate up to 500 male asylum seekers in an army training camp on the outskirts of Crowborough. The first 27 men arrived at the site in the early hours of Thursday morning.