Measuring the Economic Damage of Minnesota’s ICE Surge Is Hard
Operation Metro Surge led to over 4,000 arrests, but local groups in Fargo-Moorhead now provide food, rides, and legal help to immigrants facing fear and economic hardship.
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It is difficult to calculate the economic damage caused by the wave of ICE in Minnesota The first estimates are based on limited data and approximate calculations By: Alyssa Chen-MN Reformer Emerging statistics on the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota — $203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis, $106 million in lost wages in Twin Cities — are based on limited data and a good dose of approximate calculations.
Measuring the economic damage of Minnesota’s ICE surge is hard
Emerging statistics on the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota — $203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis, $106 million in lost wages in the Twin Cities — are based on limited data and a healthy dose of back-of-the-envelope calculations. Anecdotal evidence from Minnesota businesses struggling from dramatic revenue losses and immigrants sheltering at […]
As ICE surge winds down, F-M residents continue outreach
MOORHEAD — While the federal government has said it is scaling back immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, immigrants in the Fargo-Moorhead area are still fearful, according to community leaders. The Trump administration's border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Feb. 12 the end of Operation Metro Surge, the administration's name for the heightened immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. However, Fowzia Adde, executive director of t…
The Trump Administration is ENDING It’s ICE Raid Surge In Minnesota
Border czar Tom Homan has announced that President Donald Trump has agreed with his proposal to conclude a federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Homan’s announcement came less than three weeks after Trump deployed him to Minnesota to run immigration operations there. Homan said that a “small footprint” of personnel will stay in the area “for a period of time” to transition command back to a local field office, and to ensure “agitat…
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