| 2026-09-09 | St. Paul Asylum Seeker With Work Permit and No Criminal Record Sent to Guantánamo's Camp Six
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | ICE Officer Castro Pleads Not Guilty to Six False-Statement Counts; Unsealed Indictment Says He Fired Through a Closing Door
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken
1 src United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-28 | Boelter Notifies Court He Will Argue the Hortman Killings Were a Justifiable Taking of Life in a Citizen's Arrest
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Independent Tracker Records the 5,000th ICE Detainee Flown Out of MSP Since November 2025
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor
5 src Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · Interfaith Alliance |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | CoreCivic Signs $536M, 5-Year Contract to Reopen Appleton MN's Prairie Correctional as 1,600-Bed ICE Facility
3 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Kevin Ramirez Mancia, U-Visa Petitioner Held Four Months in Freeborn County Jail, Wins Federal Habeas Release
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-23 | Crow Wing County, MN: Residents Demand Termination of ICE/USMS Jail Agreement and Two 287(g) Pacts at June 23 Board Meeting
2 src U.S. Marshals Service · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-11 | Vance Boelter Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to the Hortman Killings and the Hoffman Shootings
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-16 | Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Charges ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with Two Counts of Second-Degree Assault — First State Criminal Charge Against Federal Immigration Agent During Operation Metro Surge
4 src Mary Moriarty · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-14 | HSI Special Operations Group Surveils St. John's Church in St. Paul, Runs License-Plate Checks on Meeting Attendees' Vehicles
3 src Homeland Security Investigations · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan · Direct Action Minnesota | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-08 | ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-15 | HSI Deploys Four Undercover Agents Into a 200-Person 'Workers Assembly to Defeat ICE' at Minneapolis's United Labor Center
3 src Homeland Security Investigations · Jacob Marquis · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-15 | HSI Opens Project Whipple Shield, Using Warrantless Administrative Summonses Under Customs Authority to Take Years of Union and Nonprofit Financial Records Under a 'Domestic Terrorist Financing' Theory
7 src Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Communications Workers of America · AFL-CIO · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | Homan Announces End to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota
3 src Tom Homan · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tim Walz · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-01 | HSI Undercover Agent Attends TCDA 'Art Club' Meeting at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Roseville; Debriefed With a Photo Array for Attendee Identification
3 src Homeland Security Investigations · Jacob Marquis · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-26 | GOP Candidate Chris Madel Quits Minnesota Governor Race, Calls Operation Metro Surge an 'Unmitigated Disaster'
5 src Jonathan Ross · Renee Good | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Serves Grand Jury Subpoenas to Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and AG Ellison Over Immigration Enforcement
4 src Tim Walz · Jacob Frey · Keith Ellison · Pam Bondi · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | Five Minnesota Physicians Hold Capitol Press Conference on ICE Surge's Health Toll, Flanked by Two Physician-Senators
4 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | Federal Agents Tear-Gas Jackson Family Vehicle in North Minneapolis; Six-Month-Old Loses Consciousness, Hospitalized
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | Alberto Castaneda Mondragon Hospitalized at HCMC With Catastrophic Head Injury After ICE Arrest; Lawsuit Alleges Agents Beat Him
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Subpoenas I-9 Employment-Eligibility Records for 7,000+ Hennepin Healthcare Employees
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · J.D. Vance · Jacob Frey | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents to Minneapolis in 'Largest Immigration Operation Ever'
3 src Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | DHS Announces Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Largest Immigration Enforcement Operation in U.S. History
6 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Tom Homan · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | ICE Escalates Operations Targeting Somali Immigrants in Minnesota Following Trump's Attacks on Community
7 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Tim Walz · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2025-06-14 | Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and Husband Assassinated, Senator John Hoffman and Wife Wounded
4 src Tim Walz | | confirmed |
| 1985-08-17 | Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking
3 src National Guard |
| confirmed |