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State law enforcement agency in U.S. state of Minnesota
Federal officials and local outlets report widely differing tallies of immigration arrests in since the Trump administration launched a high‑profile enforcement push late in 2025; official spokespeopl...
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...
Available reporting and public-data sources in the provided set do not contain any figure that directly answers “How many people of Somali descent were incarcerated in Minnesota prisons from 2020 to 2...
The landscape in is mixed: most state prisons and many county jails cooperate with detainers, but some county jails—most notably —do not honor administrative detainers unless backed by a judge, and ot...
Available public reporting does not provide a verifiable, up‑to‑the‑minute count of “ presently in ”; open claims range from specific tallies tied to DHS/ enforcement lists to state corrections data t...
Federal immigration officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have the authority to operate in Minnesota under federal law as a federal agency charged with enforcing immigration sta...
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...
The public record shows has primarily issued press statements, “Worst of the Worst” web postings and operational summaries to describe arrests and deadly encounters in , including characterizations of...
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...
is not systematically "forcing" and to hunt down released immigrants by uniformly refusing to hand people directly to federal authorities; the situation is a mix of legal constraints, varying county p...
state officials define and count “” using a point-in-time inventory of people in state prisons and a state survey of local jails, finding roughly 207 non‑U.S. citizens in state prisons and 94 in count...
There is no definitive public evidence in the reporting provided that has committed an illegal act by “actively letting” people with detainers go when federal agents request custody; instead the recor...
Federal disclosures around amount to public / tallies, press releases and “worst of the worst” arrest lists — while officials have released custody counts, court records and video footage to rebut DHS...
A recent in , branded , has produced high-profile arrests and sharp political conflict: the and tout thousands of arrests of “the worst of the worst,” while Minnesota officials and local reporting dis...
: ’s state corrections system and some local officials provide forms of cooperation with as required by federal law, while many county jails and elected city leaders limit or refuse broader access sou...
The short answer: no credible reporting shows personally ordered prisons to “,” but federal agencies (DHS/) assert that ’s have resulted in hundreds of noncitizens not being held on ICE detainers and ...
for people transferred from jails and prisons into custody fall into four visible categories: routine custody transfers (often coordinated with Minnesota DOC), releases after judicial or administrativ...
There is no reporting among the provided sources that specifically identifies a “” refusing to honor detainers; the public dispute instead centers on state and larger county practices in Minnesota, wi...
There is no clear evidence in the provided reporting that an elected sheriff resigned; the dominant news items instead describe county sheriffs collectively voting in Commissioner and calling for his ...