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Metropolitan area in Minnesota, United States
Yes — , ranging from major engineered road tunnels like the to stormwater and sewer conduits, historic waterpower bores and natural sandstone caves; reporting and municipal sources document multiple d...
The narrative of drug bust that involved underground tunnels, large quantities of drugs and 96 arrests is not supported by the reporting provided: the only subterranean narcotics tunnel described in t...
Available reporting does not show a reliable national percentage of Somali Americans on welfare; advocates say “most Somalis are not on welfare” , while some critics point to concentrated poverty and ...
is operating at an enlarged scale in as part of a December-launched enforcement campaign——whose stated purpose is to apprehend and deport people in the country illegally, often framed by the administr...
’s televised address responding to activity in urged Minnesotans to record immigration-enforcement encounters — “ in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record,” a line printed verbatim in ...
Most reporting and census-based summaries say the vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota are U.S. citizens or legal residents: estimates put Minnesota’s Somali-descended population between about 76,000...
between and National Guard is highly unlikely to produce a clear battlefield-style “victor”; instead, any clash would most likely be a political and legal standoff shaped by jurisdiction, rules of eng...
A flurry of recent local and partisan reporting ties large outbound cash movements at several airports to couriers of Somali descent, but there is no direct, corroborated mainstream account in the pro...
Yes — in the last week federal and local law enforcement executed multiple high-profile drug enforcement actions in the that officials and court filings tie to the seizure of hundreds of pounds of met...
A Hmong man identified as Saly was detained by federal immigration officers in the Twin Cities area during a January enforcement operation; photos and videos circulated showing him brought out of an a...
Available reporting does not give a single, definitive number for how many Somali Minnesotans in the Twin Cities are on “some form of welfare.” Census and local reporting place roughly 80,000–84,000 p...
Large, coordinated protests across the have been organized by a mix of local progressive groups — notably , , , , (as an affiliate rapid‑response arm), and the — with backing and public endorsement fr...
Christina Rank, a 25-year-old paraprofessional at Concord Education Center in Inver Grove Heights, was stopped and taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an incident that...
Minnesota is consistently reported as the U.S. state with the largest Somali population (World Population Review and multiple analyses show Minnesota at about 61,000–64,000 Somali residents in recent ...
The preponderance of reporting says the — — received the single largest, most heavily publicized surge of and related federal agents in January 2026, with outlets citing deployments in the range of ro...
Yes — multiple local, national and federal outlets report that DHS and ICE have deployed a large surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities and that agents have been conducting door‑to‑door enforcemen...
Video and contemporaneous reporting indicate the man pulled from a St. Paul home in his underwear and a blanket was identified by community sources and local reporting as a U.S. citizen and — accordin...
Estimates of how many Somalians (Somali Americans/Somali-origin residents) live in Minnesota vary widely in reporting: U.S. Census–based sources and data aggregators give figures in the 61,000–64,000 ...
No single individual “brought” Somali immigrants to the U.S. in 2025; arrivals have resulted from U.S. refugee, asylum and humanitarian programs and longer-term migration patterns shaped by conflict a...
The public statements by and have clearly , but the record in major reporting shows those appeals were framed as calls for peaceful demonstration and documentation rather than explicit instructions to...