From Democratic Party leaders to the nation's leading advocacy organizations to even the most centrist lawmakers in Congress, the calls are mounting for the Homeland Security secretary to step aside after the shooting deaths in Minneapolis of two people who protested deportation policy.

New headline on this story. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A reminder that the ICE surge in Minnesota is affecting towns outside the Twin Cities, especially in southern Minnesota. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

President Trump has reshuffled the leadership of his immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, but it’s not clear changes at the top can solve a more basic problem: the immigration agents flooding the Twin Cities are generally less experienced in urban policing and crowd control than other police.

Important story from my colleague @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social

Our @mprnews.org liveblog is up and running Wednesday morning with news around the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. It's a good, easy way to keep up on what's happening. www.mprnews.org/live-updates

Here's a look at the @mprnews.org daily coverage today on the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. www.mprnews.org/live-updates

MPR News host Nina Moini spoke with Attorney Eric Lee, who heard the protest from the center over the weekend, and Sam Doiron, an attorney with the Texas-based group RAICES, about conditions inside the detention center.

Just before the incident, Omar called for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign. “ICE cannot be reformed,” she said.

Alex Pretti's younger sister issued a statement Monday memorializing her big brother’s kindness and criticizing “disgusting lies” told in the wake of his death.

Here's the start to our Tuesday coverage: www.mprnews.org/live-updates

Here's our liveblog from today. It'll give you a good sense of our reporting. The @mprnews.org newsroom is essentially reporting/writing/producing for 3 front pages daily: online, radio, social media. And those front pages are changing during the day. We're on it. www.mprnews.org/live-updates

People released from the Whipple Federal Building often don't have their phone, their ID or a ride home, said Natalie Ehret. The group she leads, HavenWatch, sits outside the building ready to help.

In a video, attorney Chris Madel says he can’t support what he calls retribution against Minnesota. Madel has provided legal support to Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who fired the fatal shots at Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

The change will subject people coming into the building to enhanced screening. However, state law protects the ability of people with valid gun carry permits to have firearms inside the building.

Gov. Walz did his first sit-down interview with media since he dropped out of the race for Governor (Jan. 5) and therefore since the first ICE killing (Renee Good, Jan. 7). Watch his conversation with MPR News host Clay Masters. www.youtube.com/live/qnD3G7D...

Here's the @mprnews.org liveblog for today on the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. Already newsy www.mprnews.org/live-updates

The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association is asking to meet with President Donald Trump amid the ongoing surge of federal agents in the state. And Minnesota’s largest union representing law enforcement officers wants an emergency summit of local, state and federal officials.

The Star Tribune's Laura Yuen: "A quiet, pervasive fear that has taken root in the Twin Cities, forcing some people of color who are not even immigrants to change our behaviors. We take extra precautions. We carry the passport. And we question our belonging." www.startribune.com/yuen-my-pare...

When the subzero weather hits in Minnesota, people discover this @mprnews.org piece from 2018. It's a wonderful story to read on a day like today. www.mprnews.org/story/2018/0...

Pity the national reporters who flew in last night and are lined up outside the pickle bar in Nisswa in -9 waiting to talk to day drinkers.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis. Family members say he was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.

Vigils were held across the state to remember Alex Pretti after he was fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday in Minneapolis. Many also gathered to protest increased federal immigration enforcement happening in Minnesota. For our latest coverage visit www.mprnews.org/live-updates.

Long day for the @mprnews.org team. Very proud of them once again. You can find much of the day's work here: www.mprnews.org/live-updates

“There was ample opportunity to be able to safely hand that child off to adults...There was another adult who lived in the home that was there saying, ‘I will take the child. I will take the child.’” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is a lovely read with delightful visuals. Enjoy.

In a new lawsuit, Mike Lindell’s MyPillow company cites an investigation over his 2020 election claims as causing continued business hardship.

Here's where to find all of the @mprnews.org work on the immigration enforcement surge: www.mprnews.org/ice-in-minne...

My @mprnews.org colleagues today produced a ton of great journalism today around the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. Here's a link to our daily liveblog. It's an easy way to get a quick look at much of what happened Thursday. www.mprnews.org/live-updates

@mprnews.org reporting www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours." sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

Mukhtar worked for years as an @mprnews.org reporter and earned a reputation for journalism excellence.

Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.

Publicly available videos and documents raise questions about whether ICE did enough to try to save Renee Macklin Good's life.

MPR News and APM Reports built a second-by-second timeline from the moment Macklin Good was shot until she was transported to HCMC, more than 20 minutes later. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

My @mprnews.org colleagues are delivering exceptional journalism online, on the air and on social media around the immigration enforcement surge. Here's where you can find it all: www.mprnews.org/ice-in-minne...

This is what I keep telling people who aren't from the Twin Cities. Much of the roots of the organized opposition they see now came out of the many days following George Floyd's murder where residents built connections with one another and patrolled their own streets because the MPD were AWOL.

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Another journalist assaulted by ICE in Minnesota.

As the ICE surge continues in Minnesota, many patients are delaying care regardless of their citizenship status. “They are afraid to come into the hospital,” Dr. Janna Gewirtz O’Brien, president-elect of the Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

As absenteeism rises in Minnesota with the surge of ICE agents, some parents are helping patrol neighborhoods and get kids safely to school. And for those who are too afraid to leave, they deliver groceries, help with laundry and check in on their well-being.

"Viral video shared online showed him unconscious which led many to conclude he was killed, but his sister Consuelo Henriquez confirmed to MPR News that he is alive and being held in a detention center in El Paso, Texas." Via @samstroozas.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Anna Brauch said an ICE agent grabbed her by handcuffs, and used all his strength to yank her repeatedly around the car. She told him: “You're breaking my hands, you’re breaking my hands.” He told her: “I don’t fucking care. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.” (6) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Health care professionals at Twin Cities hospitals and clinics contacted MPR News and said the Trump administration's immigration and enforcement policies are causing many undocumented patients to withdraw into isolation, especially Latino and Somali families.