Overview
- State officials said Guard units are mobilized and staging to support local law enforcement, not deployed to city streets, with plans to use reflective vests if activated.
- A federal court order restricted federal officers’ use of crowd-dispersal tools against peaceful protesters and barred initiating traffic stops of lawful demonstrators.
- DHS says Operation Metro Surge is targeting serious offenders and cites arrests including a man with 24 convictions, while urging compliance with more than 1,360 ICE detainers and claiming about 470 releases.
- Minnesota’s Department of Corrections called DHS assertions "categorically false," said it honors detainers and counts 207 non-U.S. citizens in state prisons, and MPR reporting found many DHS-listed arrests were prison-to-ICE transfers made before the surge.
- Protests and counter-protests continued in Minneapolis with some scuffles reported, and the Justice Department is investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged efforts to impede federal immigration enforcement.