Operation Metro Surge was an operation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the stated purpose of apprehending undocumented immigrants and deporting them. Beginning in December 2025, it initially targeted the Twin Cities, and later expanded to all of Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called it "the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out".
Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota
DHS officers posed as concerned citizens, joining Signal groups and taking photos of community meetings
Records Reveal How Homeland Security Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters
Spokane police documents show a DHS task force officer tracing protesters’ cars, identities, and whereabouts without alleging any wrongdoing.
Collection: ICE and CBP Operations in Minnesota and Other States
This collection examines the law, facts, and calls for accountability after ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota turn deadly.
Dilley Immigration Processing Center
The South Texas Family Residential Center (also called Dilley Immigration Processing Center) is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas. First opened in December 2014, under Barack Obama, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America.[2] United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed the detention center in June 2024, citing cost savings to add more beds in other facilities as the Biden administration implemented new border restrictions. It reopened the following year, in 2025.[3]
Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.
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DHS deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit
The Department of Homeland Security’s deportation efforts under Trump have energized and validated some hate groups.
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.
ICE agents wrongfully detained U.S. citizen in Minneapolis for looking Somali, city leaders say
Minneapolis city leaders say a U.S. citizen was wrongfully arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents because he looks Somali.
How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens • Stateline
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect, share and analyze information. Twenty-five years later, that infrastructure has merged with a digital world capable of generating vast amounts of data about Americans — and artificial intelligence is making it easier to connect and analyze that information. The result is a surveillance system far more powerful than anything imaginable in 2001, raising new questions about privacy, policing and civil liberties.
2025 Prairieland ICE detention center incident
On the evening of July 4, 2025, a civil disturbance and shooting occurred at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, United States, during one of a series of protests against mass deportations and mass incarcerations carried out during Donald Trump's second presidency.
Opinion | A terrifyingly common ICE tactic targets lawful green card applicants
Arresting legal immigrants at their immigration appointments has become part of a new and terrifyingly common strategy for immigration enforcement.
Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records
The Trump administration has cited a more than 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents to justify aggressive tactics. But court records reviewed by The Times show the majority of the alleged assaults in the areas where ICE and Border Patrol have been most active resulted in no injuries.
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the chilling effect it has on all travelers."
They Walk Among Us - Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance released “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents,” an analysis of sexual and violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patrol agents. It report documents 59 cases of violent and/or sexual criminal acts by DHS employees.
ICE emergency guides
Immigration in the US. See also ICE observer guides: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
Know Your Rights: Five Things Parents Detained by ICE Should Know
How to Find a Loved One After a U.S. Immigration Arrest
What To Do If ICE Stops You In a Car, On a Bus, Or In a Train ~ L.A. TACO
What to Do If a Federal Immigration Agency Kills Your Loved One ~ L.A. TACO
What To Do If ICE Comes Knocking ~ L.A. TACO