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City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE detained two people at the Target in Richfield, Minnesota on January 8, an event captured on video and reported by multiple outlets . Multipl...
Videos and local reporting show federal agents detaining two people at the Richfield Target on Jan. 8–9, 2026, which prompted protests demanding Target bar ICE from its property without judicial warra...
Operation Creep was a multi‑agency undercover sting in Bloomington, Minnesota, that resulted in 16 arrests of men alleged to have sought sex from a decoy they believed to be a 17‑year‑old; local polic...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly framed the Richfield Target detentions as law-enforcement actions tied to an alleged assault on federal officers, while local elected officials, witnes...
The ACLU of Minnesota’s new federal lawsuit accuses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents of repeatedly violating Minnesotans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights during rece...
Official U.S. government data do not provide a reliable, single-number answer to how many people held by are U.S. citizens; independent investigations and news compilations put the count of documented...
Yes — multiple reputable news outlets, legal filings and government documents document instances in which U.S. citizens were detained, questioned or briefly held by immigration agents from ICE or rela...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a short on‑the‑record explanation to at least one outlet saying Border Patrol arrested a U.S. citizen during an immigration enforcement operation at the Rich...
There is widespread reporting of U.S. citizens being detained—sometimes forcibly and on video—during recent ICE and Border Patrol operations in multiple states, but none of the provided sources corrob...
Local elected officials and community leaders have publicly denounced the Richfield Target arrests as an excessive, warrantless use of force and a racially targeted federal overreach, citing bystander...
Multiple bystander videos published and reviewed by local outlets show Customs and Border Protection (CBP)/Border Patrol agents entering the Richfield Target and physically detaining two employees at ...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Target or other major retailers implemented new, formal policies restricting federal agents’ access to store property after the Richfield incident; c...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or related federal immigration teams were captured on video taking two people into custody at the Target store in Richfield around 2 p.m.; ...