What official federal records or detainee manifests exist for ICE/CBP operations in Minnesota in December 2025–January 2026?

1. What the agencies themselves have put on the record: press releases and public claims

ICE and DHS issued multiple public statements during the “Operation Metro Surge” that name individual arrests and provide aggregate totals — for example, ICE press releases identified named suspects arrested during targeted operations in Minnesota and DHS claimed more than 2,500 arrests since Dec. 1 in its public briefings ^{[1] [5] [2] [3]} — these communications function as partial official records but are selective by nature ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Searchable, individual-level tools: the ICE detainee locator and ICE statistics pages

A federal online tool exists to locate people currently held by ICE (the Online Detainee Locator System), which families or attorneys can use to find specific detainees and which the government cites as the official avenue for locating those in ICE custody ^[4]; separately, ICE’s Detention Management pages and periodic biweekly detention-statistics releases provide agency-wide counts and facility compliance materials but are not organized as a day-by-day Minnesota “manifest” of every arrest in the surge ^{[6] [7]}.

3. Independent aggregations and their limits: datasets that stop short of Dec–Jan completeness

Non‑governmental projects and watchdogs publish historical ICE datasets and curated arrest/detention records (for example the Deportation Data Project), but the most recent public data releases documented in reporting run through mid‑October 2025, leaving a gap for December 2025–January 2026 in those consolidated public databases ^[8].

4. What local and national reporting found about named lists and totals

State and local coverage reports ICE and DHS claiming thousands of arrests and cite agency lists of certain convicted individuals (one local report noted a publicly listed set of 212 convicted individuals tied to the operations), but multiple outlets and the Department itself acknowledged that names for all detained people have not been published as a single manifest for the operation ^{[9] [3]}.

5. Legal challenges and transparency demands that seek fuller records

Minnesota officials and civil‑liberties groups have filed lawsuits and public records demands aimed at stopping the surge and forcing federal transparency, contending that federal agencies conducted militarized operations and withheld full details — the state’s complaint and the ACLU litigation explicitly request information about targeting, stops and detentions and frame the absence of a full public manifest as part of the transparency problem ^{[10] [11]}.

6. Conflicting narratives and how they shape what gets released

Federal messaging emphasizes arrests of high‑risk convicted offenders and posts selective names and case details ^{[5] [2]}, while state and civil‑liberties sources stress unlawful stops of citizens and non‑disclosure of comprehensive detainee lists ^{[10] [11]}; those divergent priorities explain why official releases are episodic (promoting enforcement outcomes) rather than exhaustive manifests intended for independent verification ^{[1] [3]}.

7. Bottom line: what official records or manifests actually exist for Dec 2025–Jan 2026

Official records that do exist for the Minnesota surge include ICE/DHS press releases naming particular arrestees and touting aggregate arrest counts, ICE’s Online Detainee Locator for finding individuals currently in custody, and ICE’s routine detention data and management pages that report biweekly totals and standards; public, comprehensive detainee manifests listing every person arrested in Minnesota during December 2025–January 2026 have not been published in one consolidated, agency‑released manifest according to reporting and local officials ^{[1] [5] [2] [3] [4] [6] [8] [10]}.