Bring Me The News is running daily updates on major breaking news and raids for the duration of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” immigration operation in Minnesota.
A force of around 3,000 federal agents are reported to have been deployed, with the Trump administration choosing to bring its most intense anti-immigrant operations to Minnesota despite more than half of U.S. states having larger undocumented populations, according to recent estimates.
Below are the latest ICE raids and breaking news on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
7:20 p.m. – Arrest in Northeast Minneapolis
Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne says an arrest was made in the Waite Park neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis, with agents detaining someone “delivering food to their family.”
4:30 p.m. – Earlier ICE activity at St. Paul grocery store
Footage from this afternoon shared to social media shows ICE inside Sun World Supermarket, an Asian grocery store in St. Paul, where they escorted a man out and placed him in a vehicle…