Trump halts Minnesota ICE surge

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."

February 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."

February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

"The Trump administration said on Thursday that it was ending its deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota..."

last week Homan said they'd reduce the number, but NYT here says today's statement is that the deployment is ending full stop by next week. we'll see

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Border Czar Says Minnesota Enforcement Surge Is Ending

www.nytimes.com

February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."

February 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM

by Richard W. Painter

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Nicole Bedera

@nbedera.bsky.social

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because:

1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it.

2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM

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Mike Elk

@mikeelk.bsky.social

ICE "withdrawing" from Minnesota, but using those agents to already intensify deportations in Pittsburgh & elsewhere.

paydayreport.com/ice-withdraw...

ICE "Withdrawing" from Minnesota, but Intensifying in Pittsburgh & Elsewhere

Immigrants’ rights activists are also concerned that the withdrawal of thousands of federal agents from Minneapolis could simply lead to a transfer of these agents to intensify ICE operations in other...

paydayreport.com

February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM

Reposted by Stephen Pimpare, Rosemary A. Joyce

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Jeff Rueter

@jeffrueter.bsky.social

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.

In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

A screenshot of People Over Papers’ ICE reporting map. The map resets at 4 am ET every day. In Minnesota, over 100 reports have been filed today, with the overwhelming majority in and around the Twin Cities.

Stay safe. Fuck ICE.

February 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM

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Nandita Sharma

@nsharma101.bsky.social

Thank you, brave people in Minnesota who stood up against Trump's "mass deportation" policies!

This would not have happened without you.

We need to ensure that Trump's personal goon squad receives the same un-welcome that the great people in Minnesota gave!

Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Block Funding Bill as Homeland Security Shutdown Looms

www.nytimes.com

February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM

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by Dean Baker

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Sebastian Karcher

@adam42smith.bsky.social

If you're not hearing about DOJ career staffers quitting and blowing whistles left & right, you're not listening, from this week, e.g.: www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
(ICE is indeed rotten to the core; that's where 'abolish ice' -- hardly a new slogan -- comes from)

More frustrated prosecutors at the U.S Attorney's office in Minnesota call it quits

Turmoil continues at the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis. This week another attorney was removed from a special assignment dealing with immigration cases after telling a judge she hates her job.

www.npr.org

February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM

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The Sacramento Bee

@sacbee.com

As ICE ends its Minnesota immigration sweeps, tensions over similar actions in California linger, a lawsuit filed Thursday shows.

CA lawmaker sues, demands information on Sacramento courthouse immigration arrests

As ICE ends its Minnesota immigration sweeps, tensions over similar actions in California linger, a lawsuit filed Thursday shows.

bit.ly

February 13, 2026 at 6:50 AM

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