Overview
- ICE confirmed a Minneapolis-focused enforcement push called Operation Metro Surge and said arrests include noncitizens such as Somali nationals.
- President Trump called Somalis 'garbage' and said he does not want them in the country, and he announced an end to Somali TPS in Minnesota even as immigration lawyers note TPS is not state-specific.
- PolitiFact rated Gov. Tim Walz’s claim that he 'put people in jail' as false, emphasizing that federal investigators and prosecutors led the cases.
- Prosecutors report 59 convictions across pandemic-era social-services schemes they say stole more than $1 billion, with Feeding Our Future among the cases.
- Twin Cities faith leaders and some Republicans, including State Sen. Jim Abeler, publicly defended Somali Minnesotans as a valued part of the community as Treasury reviews unproven claims of funds reaching Al‑Shabaab.