US EditionMinnesota Resistance Movement Says Drawdown Is ‘Hard-Fought Community Victory’
Homeland Security cut 700 ICE agents from Minneapolis operation amid persistent community resistance and mutual aid networks protecting immigrant neighborhoods.
- Federal officials announced on Feb. 12 that U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan proposed ending Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, with agents either returning to duty stations or reassigned as the drawdown continues next week.
- Rising tensions after Jan. 7 and Jan. 24 led DHS to launch Dec. 1, 2025, and Homan announced on Feb. 12 that Operation Metro Surge will draw down.
- Neighbors and volunteers responded with mutual aid and organizing as immigrant residents sheltered in place, immigrant-owned businesses closed or shifted to takeout, and a teacher reported just one of 26 students showing up.
- Attorney General Keith Ellison urged ICE to provide a full accounting and FBI investigations, while Gov. Tim Walz proposed $10 million in one-time emergency relief for affected businesses.
- Even as reporters depart, community leaders warn the siege continues with 700 ICE agents cut but thousands of remaining federal officers using Palantir and surveillance tools, while the full toll may take months to surface.
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Metro Surge Nears End After Community Resistance, Not State Cooperation
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN RECORDER — Border czar Tom Homan announced on Feb. 12 that Immigration and Customs’ “Metro Surge” would soon wrap up operations, stating that DHS has arrested around 4,000 undocumented immigrants. The operation has faced nationwide criticism due to the violence it has brought to Minneapolis streets, including the deaths of two Minnesota residents at the hands of DHS agents.
Minnesota Native activists on front lines of ICE resistance
As the sun set over Coldwater Spring on Wednesday, a ceremonial fire burned as a Dakota elder shared a song of prayer and healing, surrounded by a small group of people. Around the fire, four tipis stood with the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looming in the background. The tipis on a sacred Dakota site near Fort Snelling are one of the most visible signs of a movement by members of the Native community to push back against the Immigrati…
Border Czar Says End in ICE Operation Surge in Minnesota Not an Entire Pullback
White House border czar Tom Homan has said that the decision to end the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota doesn’t indicate that agents will be leaving in their entirety, coming hours after he announced a pullback from the state. In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday, Homan said that “hundreds of agents” will carry out investigations into allegations of federal entitlement fraud in…
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