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Attorney general for the U.S. state of Minnesota
Yes: multiple, documented fraud schemes and alleged schemes have been uncovered across Minnesota’s social‑services and pandemic‑era programs, producing dozens of indictments, convictions, criminal cha...
State and local facilities handle federal detainer requests differently: state prisons in say they notify and coordinate transfers with ICE and document transfers, while many county jails, constrained...
’s established policy is not to honor ’s administrative detainer requests that ask the jail to hold people beyond their otherwise-scheduled release; the county will only comply when ICE provides a jud...
Documented court records and Justice Department filings tie specific Somali-named defendants to large fraud schemes in Minnesota — most notably the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition case in which mul...
sheriffs and the have not, in the reporting provided, issued a single uniform new legal advisory specifically telling Minnesotans whether they may or may not carry firearms to protests; instead the gu...
Federal immigration agents from ICE are operating in Minnesota as part of a campaign called “Operation Metro Surge,” and DHS says ICE arrested “more than 400” noncitizens during the effort; Minnesota ...
Federal immigration officers generally cannot force entry into the nonpublic areas of a private home in Minnesota without a judicially issued warrant; ICE’s so‑called “administrative” or agency-issued...
and state records show has taken non‑citizens from prison custody into federal immigration custody, but the scope and legality of those transfers are disputed: DHS and ICE characterize many removals a...
Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people in multiple Minnesota fraud schemes, most prominently the Feeding Our Future child‑nutrition case that authorities say involved at least $240–250 mill...
county sheriffs have pointed to concrete legal risks — including the absence of state statutory authority to detain people on civil detainers, exposure to civil liability for unlawful arrests or deten...
has been the focus of sprawling federal and state fraud investigations into multiple social-services programs, with prosecutors saying dozens have been convicted and investigators probing programs tha...
Reporting from state and national outlets, advocacy groups and legal filings documents multiple instances in which people identified as U.S. citizens were stopped, handcuffed or detained by ICE/CBP ag...
No credible local news outlets or court filings among the reporting provided documented any discovery of connected to immigration enforcement activities in during 2025–2026; the available coverage ins...
When ’s official governor pages return “Verifying your browser” or other verification errors, the most direct fallback is archived copies of the governor’s press releases in ; the governor newsroom an...
Hennepin County and the Minnesota Attorney General launched a public evidence portal to collect photos, video and other materials related to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good after federal autho...
’s federal complaint (Case No. 0:26-cv-00190) alleges that a set of federal and state officials took or approved measures that injure Minnesota and exceed lawful authority, invoking the and other fede...
) maintains internal components and memos that shape how enforcement locations are selected, but public-facing explanations of the specific criteria and the underlying data are partial and unevenly av...
Reporting reviewed does not identify any Minneapolis legal-services or immigrant-rights nonprofits that explicitly told reporters they received increased foundation or donor-advised-fund (DAF) grants ...
Multiple layers of authority can investigate a sitting Minnesota governor: state law-enforcement and oversight bodies led by the Minnesota Attorney General and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, fed...
has already pursued a judicial route — filing suit with and the BCA to block federal agencies from destroying evidence — and obtained at least a temporary federal court order preventing from “destroyi...