Whenever US federal immigration agents pull up to a location in Minneapolis, people take their whistles out, start blowing them and start filming.

In December 2025, the US government sent more than 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge. They joined more than 700 agents already present in the state – their mission to find and deport people the Trump administration calls “worst of the worst illegal alien criminals.”

The residents of the  metropolitan area known as the Twin Cities – Minneapolis and Saint........

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