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A wider period of protests and federal enforcement in Minnesota, involving thousands of arrests in clashes with law enforcement and immigration enforcement operations.
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...
There is no ICE statement or case record mentioning anyone named “Saly” in the reporting provided; available official comments from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security address broad Operation ...
The legal observer movement in Minnesota is a volunteer-driven network of trained civilians who document and monitor federal immigration enforcement and other law‑enforcement actions to protect consti...
Yes — multiple news organizations and local reporting document Homeland Security/ICE teams conducting door‑to‑door operations in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area as part of a large federal surge; those o...
Minnesota does not broadly “deport” undocumented immigrants because removal is a federal function, and state and local officials in Minnesota have chosen policies and practices that limit cooperation ...
The available reporting shows documented use of hexachloroethane (HC)–type smoke grenades by federal forces during U.S. protest operations in 2020—most thoroughly documented in Portland—while official...
Reporting does not substantiate a clear-cut claim that the so-called “green gas” used in Minnesota is categorically “poisonous” or that it is expressly “forbidden” to the U.S. military; local court or...
A federal judge has already imposed limits on ICE and DHS tactics in Minneapolis, and that judicial pressure, combined with ongoing local lawsuits and national political stakes, sets the likely pathwa...
Minneapolis’s current reality — where some people federal authorities call “criminal targets” are not sitting in local jails for ICE to pick up — is the product of clashing legal authorities, judicial...
Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a large, highly publicized deployment — described by some officials as involving roughly 2,000 ICE and DHS agents — that produced more than 400 reported arr...
Local reporting and official statements show Minneapolis police have, on balance, tried to maintain distance from the recent surge of ICE operations while the federal government has pressed forward wi...
The federal government and Homeland Security officials have repeatedly described Operation Metro Surge as the "largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out," citing deployments of more t...
Operation Metro Surge has become the catalyst for a high‑stakes state‑federal legal confrontation in which Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul allege the Department of Homeland Security’s deployment o...
ICE agents were conducting a large enforcement operation in Minneapolis when an agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good; reporting indicates the immediate law-enforcement contact that led to the shooting...
No credible reporting in the provided sources indicates anyone was arrested at a Minnesota church for violating COVID lockdown orders; instead the coverage documents a January incident in which anti-I...
Minnesota communities report a sharp uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity that parents, educators and officials say has included agents operating on or near school and daycare ...
Federal agencies published partial, public records tied to Minnesota enforcement in December 2025–January 2026 — principally ICE and DHS press releases naming select arrestees and touting aggregate ar...
Multiple credible local and national outlets report that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other DHS agents have conducted enforcement operations in the Twin Cities region in January 2026 that b...
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...
Federal judges overseeing lawsuits tied to Operation Metro Surge have demanded documentary and testimonial proof tied to agents’ conduct — seeking operational records, eyewitness accounts and footage ...