December 2025
This deadly operation included more than 3,000 ICE and CBP officers deployed in the Twin Cities and throughout the state of Minnesota. The administration heavily targeted Somali and Southeast Asian refugee communities as an attempt to link these established immigrant communities to the fraud investigations involving a small handful of people. This operation was characterized by brutally violent arrest tactics and an overwhelming community response from Minnesotans in opposition to violent immigration arrests. DHS agents shot at least three people during this operation, two of these shootings were fatal. DHS officers shot and killed Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti on camera while they were engaged in constitutionally protected observation of immigration enforcement. So far, the operation has resulted in more than 4,000 arrests.
Raids in Minnesota included controversial and unconstitutional tactics such as breaking into private homes without a judicial warrant and directing small children to lead agents into their homes to arrest their adult parents. DHS also prioritized arrests of refugees as part of “Operation PARRIS” which would require that these people’s grant of refugee status be “re-vetted”. While the administration has announced a drawn-down of deployment in the wake of uproar over the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, hundreds of agents remain and widespread raids continue.
There was no National Guard deployment in Minnesota.