The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead. On Wednesday, border czar Tom Homan announced the operation is over. Here is a look at some of the key moments during the surge.
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People participate in an anti-ICE protest outside of the Governors Residence, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. People take part in an anti-ICE protest outside the Governors Residence in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. People take part in an anti-ICE protest outside the Governors Residence in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. The Trump administration has announced the end of a massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after two and a half protest-filled months, 4,000 arrests and two fatal shootings by immigration officers. Two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed by federal officers in Minneapolis. Here is a look at some key moments during Operation Metro Surge, which the Department of Homeland Security called the “largest immigration enforcement operation ever.” Operation Metro Surge is focused on the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, home to the nation’s largest Somali community. Trump has claimed immigrants from Somalia were “completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota.” He later referred to Somali residents as “garbage” during a Cabinet meeting.Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the Somali community were “unprecedented for a United States president.” According to U.S. Census Bureau data, an estimated 260,000 people of Somali descent were living in the U.S. in 2024. That includes about 84,000 residents in the Minneapolis area, most of whom are American citizens.to push through a crowd of protesters who blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood. When agents approached a city-owned senior housing complex, a group of protesters blew whistles to sound the alarm and confronted the agents, who responded with pepper spray.would become commonplace throughout the Twin Cities in the following weeks, with a widespread network of residents working to help immigrants, warn people of approaching agents or film immigration officers’ actions to share with the world.are charged in connection with an ongoing Minnesota housing services fraud investigation, with authorities saying they stole money instead of helping Medicaid recipients find stable housing.. Eighty-two of the 92 defendants in the child nutrition, housing services and autism program schemes are Somali Americans, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota.Both Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel announced an increase in the immigration operation in Minnesota.Noem claims the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” carried out against ICE officers, and Vice President JD Vance later claimed the officer fired in self-defense because Good was trying to hit him with her vehicle. But that explanation has been panned by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey,filmed by bystanders challenged the administration’s narrative. It’s unclear in the videos if the car makes contact with, who shoots first while standing in front of the vehicle and then twice more while standing at the side of the car, an arm’s length from the driver’s side window.The 3 1/2-minute-long video filmed by a bystander was posted by the Department of Homeland Security to X. It shows two officers walking toward Good’s car as it blocks part of a road.shows one officer ask Good to get out of the car and another tries to open her door. The officer who is filming circles around to the front of the vehicle. Good reverses briefly — placing the filming officer in front of the driver’s side of the vehicle — and then turns her steering wheel toward the passenger side of the vehicle. An officer orders her out of the car as her wife, who is standing outside the vehicle, shouts, “drive, baby, drive!” Officials say the non-fatal shooting came after the officer was attacked by two other people with a shovel and a broom handle while he was trying to arrest the Venezuelan man. Protesters and federal officers continued to square off near the site of the shooting, with officers firing tear gas into the crowd while protesters threw snowballs and chanted, “Our streets.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Victor Manuel Diaz appeared to have killed himself, but the death remained under investigation.ICE said the death occurred as staff members tried to keep him from killing himself, but a fellow detainee said at least five officers were restraining the handcuffed inmate and one had an arm around his neck. A preliminary investigation by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office found Lunas Campos, 55, died from asphyxia from chest and neck compression and said the death would likely be classified a homicide.a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video of the protest shows a group of people interrupting services by chanting “ICE out,” and “Justice for Renee Good.”Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stevnik told reporters that federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car in the family’s driveway, and then told him to knock on the door to his home to see if other people were inside, “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”Jan. 22: Trump administration officials announce that a prominent civil rights attorney and at least two others involved in the protest that disrupted a church servicePretti was a U.S. citizen, and like Good had no criminal record. He was a licensed gun owner with a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and he was wearing a holstered gun the day he died.show Pretti with only a phone in his hand as he steps between an immigration agent and a woman on the street after the agent shoved the woman. The officer shoves Pretti in the chest and pepper sprays him and the woman. At least seven officers begin to force Pretti to the ground, bringing his arms behind his back as he appears to resist. An officer holding a canister strikes him near his head several times. Agents appear to disarm him. A first shot is fired by a Border Patrol officer, and after a pause the same officer fires several more times into Pretti’s back.in connection with the Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul. Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are among those arrested.The announcement is unusual — immigration officials did not announce formal ends to similar operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere. ___ Multiple Associated Press reporters contributed to this story.Boone is a correspondent who covers breaking news, the courts, accountability issues and more for The Associated Press. She is based in Boise, Idaho.
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