Local View: With End of Operation Metro Surge, Let Healing Begin in Minnesota

Local View: With end of Operation Metro Surge, let healing begin in Minnesota

We are local elected officials from different counties — urban and rural alike — united by an urgent reality: Operation Metro Surge caused profound harm to our communities, undermined public safety, and inflicted trauma that will endure long after it has ended. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel swept through our neighborhoods with alarming speed and aggression. Families were separated without warning. Parents feared going to wor…

Commentary: The end of Operation Metro Surge is only the start of healing our communities

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ICE down to 1,000 people in Minnesota as surge ends; will be below 500 later this week

Homeland Security has now withdrawn the vast majority of immigration officers it had surged to Minnesota, leaving fewer than 1,000 ICE personnel still there.

The end of Operation Metro Surge, in data

President Donald Trump’s border czar announced the imminent end to Operation Metro Surge, the surge of 3,000 immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota, on Feb. 12. At the time, Tom Homan said that agents from other states would be sent home or deployed elsewhere within a week, and a “small footprint” would remain for “a period […]

Lawyers filed over 1,000 lawsuits challenging immigrant detentions during Operation Metro Surge

Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge, federal judges in Minnesota have repeatedly ruled—hundreds of times—that immigration agents illegally arrested and detained people and must release them.

We Need Immigrants: ICE Doing More Harm Than Good

The controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis, dubbed “Operation Metro Surge,” is officially ending. This operation fueled pu