US appeals court lifts order on immigration agents' tactics against protesters

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday lifted a lower court's order that had restrained federal immigration agents from deploying teargas or otherwise using

force against peaceful protesters in Minnesota, where tensions have mounted during a confrontation between the federal and local governments.



Some protesters against U.S. President Donald Trump's surges in immigration enforcement in the Minneapolis area sued his administration in December, saying their constitutional rights were being infringed.



The Republican president has sent thousands of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into the Minneapolis area in recent weeks to conduct deportation roundups, unprecedented in scale. The ICE agents have had numerous violent confrontations with residents, with one agent

fatally shooting a U.S. citizen in her car.