Overview
- At a Capitol forum led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Robert Garcia, Renee Good’s brothers urged Congress to rein in federal agents and pursue stronger accountability, as the House passed a stopgap that funds DHS through Feb. 13.
- A federal judge on Feb. 2 issued an emergency order blocking Secretary Kristi Noem’s memo that sought to require advance notice for congressional inspections of ICE detention facilities.
- Immigration officers in Minneapolis detained activists who were following agent vehicles, with an Associated Press photographer witnessing arrests as Gov. Tim Walz and school leaders described rising fear in school communities.
- Local officials reported ICE activity near the Jersey City–Hoboken border, and videos showed masked officers placing a detained man into an unmarked van without prior notification to local police.
- Minnesota’s corrections chief said Operation Metro Surge has produced more than 3,000 arrests since December and pressed for a sizable drawdown and a transparent joint probe into the killings of Good and Alex Pretti, while Tom Homan has not set a timeline.