Progressive Politics

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43813508

Feb. 20, 2026

After nearly three months, the largest anti-immigrant operation in U.S. history has officially “ended” — beaten back by a massive, sustained, and well-organized resistance involving hundreds of thousands throughout the state of Minnesota and across the country.

At its peak, the surge involved 3,000 federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol — a 2,000% increase over the normal deployment in the state, and more than twice the size of the combined police forces in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes Minneapolis and St. Paul.

These agents have functioned as a hostile paramilitary force to carry out “retribution” against Minnesota and the immigrant communities that U.S. president Donald Trump calls “garbage” and “animals” who have “destroyed Minnesota.”