On March 3, 2026, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the opening of criminal investigations into Gregory Bovino, former Customs and Border Protection chief patrol agent and Border Patrol commander-at-large, and multiple ICE agents for alleged unlawful conduct during Operation Metro …
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Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz issued the strongest judicial rebuke yet of ICE conduct on February 26, 2026, explicitly threatening criminal contempt proceedings against ICE officials who continued to defy court orders. In a written order, Schiltz stated unequivocally: “This court …
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U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of the District of Massachusetts issued a final ruling on the merits on February 25, 2026, finding that the DHS policy of deporting migrants to countries they had never lived in—without notice or any opportunity to contest the destination—violated both the …
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan found the federal government in contempt of court on February 24, 2026, after ICE repeatedly violated judicial orders governing the treatment of detained immigrants in Minnesota. The court had previously issued clear directives: ICE could not transfer detainees out …
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A former ICE attorney testified before Congress that the agency systematically trains cadets to violate the Constitution, including entering homes without judicial warrants and conducting searches without probable cause. The testimony described ICE’s training program as “deficient, …
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A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the IRS from sharing taxpayer data with ICE on February 24, 2026. The panel ruled that immigrant-rights nonprofits challenging the arrangement were “unlikely to succeed on the …
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By February 23, 2026, Operation Metro Surge was winding down with fewer than 1,000 federal agents remaining in Minnesota, down from a peak deployment of approximately 3,000—described by officials as the “largest DHS operation ever” conducted on domestic soil. Federal officials claimed …
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An investigation revealed ICE and CBP officers were coordinating enforcement operations using Zello, a free consumer walkie-talkie app previously linked to January 6 coordination, bypassing secure government communications systems. The use of an unsecured commercial app for sensitive law enforcement …
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DHS announced plans for a unified “matching engine” merging facial recognition and fingerprint databases across multiple agencies into a single searchable system. The combined biometric database would enable any DHS component to instantly cross-reference faces and fingerprints against …
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Pardoned Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been convicted of drug trafficking charges in U.S. federal court, received special treatment including ICE detainer removal and a taxpayer-funded transfer to a luxury hotel. Hernández had been convicted of facilitating the shipment of …
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DHS signed a $1 billion blanket purchase agreement with Palantir for immigration surveillance across ICE and CBP without competitive bidding. Palantir’s technology enables mass data integration across multiple government databases, creating comprehensive surveillance profiles of immigrants and …
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Tribal leaders reported that ICE detained multiple Native Americans during Minneapolis enforcement operations without providing names, records, or confirming whereabouts or citizenship status. The Oglala Sioux Tribe raised urgent concerns about members swept up in Operation Metro Surge who …
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ICE agreements with local police departments under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act exploded to more than 1,400, with over 1,100 new agreements signed in 2025 alone. Under Biden there had been 135 such agreements; at the end of Trump’s first term there were 150. The …
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DHS entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. after Congress failed to pass funding legislation, becoming the only federal agency affected while all others received full-year fiscal 2026 funding. Democrats withheld votes for DHS seeking reforms to immigration enforcement following the fatal shootings …
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The ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota filed an amended complaint in Tincher v. Noem on February 13, 2026, dramatically expanding the scope of the case with five new plaintiffs including the NewsGuild-CWA—the nation’s largest journalism union—and Status Coup News, an independent media outlet. The …
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Border czar Tom Homan announced at the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis that Operation Metro Surge would conclude, with a “significant drawdown” of the approximately 2,000 remaining federal agents. The operation, which began November 29, 2025, and surged to over 3,000 …
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In a sworn declaration filed in federal court, IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo revealed that the agency erroneously shared the confidential taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, violating privacy rules designed to protect taxpayer data. …
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U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a blistering order finding that ICE violated at least 96 court orders across 74 cases in Minnesota during January 2026 alone. Schiltz stated that ICE “has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than …
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Minnesota witnessed its largest general strike in nearly a century as tens of thousands of workers walked off the job and took to the streets to protest Trump administration immigration enforcement and the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The strike, organized by a coalition of 90 …
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Two anonymous ICE employees disclosed to Congress an internal DHS memo by acting ICE head Todd Lyons authorizing immigration agents to forcibly enter homes using only administrative warrants signed by ICE officials, bypassing the constitutional requirement for judicial warrants. The Associated Press …
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Two anonymous whistleblowers disclosed to the U.S. Senate that DHS had authorized and trained ICE agents to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants, based on a secret memo issued by Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons on May 12, 2025. The memo authorizes ICE agents to use administrative warrants …
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DHS launched Operation Catch of the Day, an immigration enforcement operation across Maine targeting what the agency described as “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.” ICE had a target list of 1,400 people, representing approximately 10 percent of all immigrants without …
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Hundreds of thousands of people flooded streets across the country in the “Free America Walkout,” a mass coordinated protest marking exactly one year since Trump’s second inauguration. The walkout, spearheaded by the Women’s March—the same organization that mobilized millions …
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DHS announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had made 3,000 arrests in Minneapolis during the six weeks of Operation Metro Surge, the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed on social media that ICE had “arrested over 10,000 …
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Anti-ICE protesters disrupted a Sunday worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026, chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good” in reference to Renée Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7 during Operation Metro …
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan ordered the immediate release of Garrison Gibson, ruling that ICE agents violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they used a battering ram to break into his north Minneapolis home on January 11, 2026, armed only with administrative paperwork rather than a judicial …
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The ACLU of Minnesota, American Civil Liberties Union, Covington & Burling LLP, Greene Espel PLLP, and Robins Kaplan LLP filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging systematic racial profiling and constitutional violations by ICE and CBP during Operation Metro Surge. The …
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Internal DHS documents revealed significant hesitation among federal agents about deployment to Minneapolis under Operation Metro Surge following the fatal shooting of Renee Good. A memo from Border Patrol’s Acting Assistant Chief Joshua Andrew Post sought 300 volunteer personnel (200 Border …
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A DHS whistleblower leaked the personal data of approximately 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents to ICE List, a volunteer-run accountability website, in what was described as the largest-ever breach of DHS staff data. The dataset included names, work emails, telephone numbers, roles, and resumé data …
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ICE agents detained at least five Native Americans in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, with tribal leaders and state officials condemning the detentions as racial profiling. Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained under a bridge near the Little Earth housing complex on Friday, …
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Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for January 8-9 “out of an abundance of caution” following the Roosevelt High School incident where Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed students and detained a staff member, and the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good. Starting …
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced results of Operation Salvo in Manhattan, a multi-agency operation resulting in 54 arrests of alleged Trinitarios gang members. The operation was launched following the July 19, 2025 shooting of an off-duty Supervisory CBP officer by gang members in a New York City …
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Hours after an ICE agent shot and killed US citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Vice President JD Vance announced on Fox News that ICE would be going ‘door to door’ in coming months as part of Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Vance claimed the administration had removed …
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ICE agent Jonathan Ross shoots and kills Renee Nicole Good, 37, during Operation Metro Surge immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis. Good, a substitute teacher and poet who graduated from Old Dominion University in 2020, was present as a legal observer—exercising constitutionally protected …
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Federal agents deployed chemical irritants outside Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis during student dismissal around 3:30 PM. Witnesses reported agents spraying students and staff, with Education Minnesota president Monica Byron stating agents were “pepper spraying students.” Video …
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The Department of Homeland Security deployed over 2,000 federal agents including ICE and Border Patrol to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in what Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons called the ’largest immigration operation ever.’ DHS Secretary Kristi Noem personally participated in the …
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the deployment of 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, calling it the “largest immigration operation ever.” ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons stated agents would go “door to door” to companies suspected of hiring …
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ICE announced its workforce more than doubled from 10,000 to 22,000 agents in less than a year, crediting the unprecedented recruitment campaign launched under the “Stronger Border, Stronger America” initiative. DHS received over 150,000 applications from what it called “patriotic …
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Keith Porter, a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer in Northridge, Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Porter was reportedly firing a rifle into the air to celebrate the holiday around 10:45 PM when the off-duty agent, who …
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ICE agents entered Hennepin County Medical Center’s emergency department without a judicial warrant during the holiday period, remaining at a patient’s bedside for over 24 hours and handcuffing the patient to the hospital bed. Agents gained access to staff-only areas including break …
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The Department of Homeland Security released a comprehensive year-end report on December 19, 2025, claiming that under President Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem the agency has achieved “the most secure border in American history” and “unmatched enforcement successes” through …
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched “Operation Buckeye” on December 16, 2025, in Columbus and throughout Ohio, officially characterizing the enforcement action as targeting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” with convictions for felony drug possession, …
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Seven people die in ICE custody in December 2025, with four deaths occurring within a four-day span from December 12-15, making it the deadliest month of Trump’s second term. The deaths occur as ICE holds a record 68,000+ people in detention, and 2025 becomes the deadliest year for ICE custody …
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller publicly attacked the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, suggesting America was better off under the 1920s national origins quota system that favored Western and Northern European immigrants over those from “third world countries.” Miller’s …
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Human rights organizations including the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and multiple civil rights groups released findings from interviews with more than 45 detained immigrants at Fort Bliss Camp East Montana in Texas, documenting widespread torture, sexual abuse, and coerced deportations. Sworn …
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ICE data obtained through FOIA litigation revealed that approximately 75,000 of the 220,000 people arrested between January 20 and October 15, 2025—representing one-third of all arrests—had no criminal history whatsoever. The data, released by the Deportation Data Project (a joint initiative of UCLA …
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias issues formal warnings to the Department of Homeland Security and multiple car rental companies that federal immigration agents’ practice of tampering with, swapping, or removing license plates during immigration enforcement operations violates …
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched and intensified “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis and St. Paul beginning in early December 2025, deploying approximately 100 federal agents from across the country to target the Somali immigrant community in the Twin Cities …
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Amnesty International released a damning report titled “Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State” documenting human rights violations that constitute torture at Florida’s Everglades Detention Facility (“Alligator Alcatraz”) and Krome North Service …
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A leaked VA memo reveals the Department of Veterans Affairs is compiling a comprehensive database of all non-citizen employees, contractors, volunteers, and affiliates to share with ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies. The directive, issued November 25, requires all VA offices nationwide …
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