Angie Craig says DHS told her there are fewer than 500 ICE agents in Minnesota — and that she’s taking everything DHS says with a grain of salt. There were around 150 ICE agents here prior to the surge.

Senior reporter @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social spent last week helping out the @minnesotareformer.com in her hometown of the Twin Cities. She reflects on what she learned there — and what it could mean for Portland. buff.ly/fcEH2zK

Commentary: The noteworthy increase in domestic migration into Minnesota is offset by a sharp decline in international migration and a continued slow pace of natural population growth, raising concerns about long-term demographic trends.

Excellent reporting from @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social @oregoncapitalchronicle.com on what Oregonians and the rest of the country can learn from Minnesota. Forever our #sisterstate …we love you Minnesota (+ journalism at its best)! @minnesotareformer.com oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/19/r...

The amended complaint in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against federal immigration authorities features sworn declarations from more than 80 people, including people who have been followed home by federal agents and shot with rubber bullets.

“Operation Metro Surge,” the incursion of 3,000 federal immigration agents into Minnesota in what the Department of Homeland Security called “the largest DHS operation ever,” began in December, when Minnesota became the focus of President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.

Most of the petitions were filed by a newly mobilized army of volunteer lawyers with little or no experience with immigration law — corporate litigators, divorce lawyers, estate planners and criminal defense attorneys minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/19/l...

Lawyers filed over 1,000 lawsuits challenging immigrant detentions during Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/19/l...

A veteran Pacific Northwest journalist came to Minnesota to see his granddaughter. He arrived the day Alex Pretti was killed and immediately put his reporter cap on and went to work. Read his dipatch. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Minnesota prosecutors demand evidence from federal government in Alex Pretti killing minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/18/m...

Minnesota prosecutors demand evidence from federal government in Alex Pretti killing minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/18/m...

Commentary: The state and counties cannot take over providing the necessary care, treatment and support to the thousands of people with mental illnesses currently using or needing these services. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/18/o...

Minnesota Legislature gavels in, honors Melissa Hortman, absent for first time in 20 years.

Journalist Georgia Fort pleads not guilty to felony charges stemming from church protest minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/j...

Commentary: They suggest making protein a priority at every meal and eating a mix of animal and plant proteins — despite research that shows that animal protein is associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/t...

After Minnesota church protest, states move to crack down on disruptions minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/r...

Minnesotans travel to D.C. to press for ICE funding cuts after Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/m...

Minnesota House Republican leaders don’t want to talk about immigration enforcement.

What we and the rest of America can learn from Trump’s retreat minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/m...

‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

Small business owners squeezed by Trump tariffs await Supreme Court decision minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/16/r...

FBI won’t provide Minnesota investigators with evidence in Alex Pretti killing, state says minnesotareformer.com/briefs/fbi-w...

Victims of shoddy care providers said they are now suffering from state’s crackdown on Integrated Community Supports, with some losing their access to housing as payments are withheld. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/16/m...

Partisan politics will likely impede significant legislation in the closely divided Minnesota Legislature.

As Trump administration pushes for more detentions, immigrants’ options for parole shrink minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/16/r...

Don Lemon, Cities Church protestors plead not guilty in federal court in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/d...

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have made untruthful statements under oath in their account of a Jan. 14 car chase that ended with one of the agents shooting a man in the leg, a senior Homeland Security official said Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice, citing evidence inconsistent with its earlier allegations, dropped felony charges against two men accused of assaulting a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent before the agent shot one of the men in the leg.

Commentary: What can we learn from Trump's retreat? Minnesota 1, Trump 0 minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/m...

Greater Minnesota, too: ‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

It's a natural extension of churches’ spiritual worldview—backed by scripture—that compels believers to help the vulnerable, reports @minnesotareformer.com . sojo.net/articles/new...

“It felt like we were being occupied by the federal government,” Attorney General Keith Ellison said. US senators denounce immigration agents’ use of force in deadly Minneapolis shootings minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/r...

Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...

Border Czar Tom Homan announces end to Operation Metro Surge, claiming success minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/b...

A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer. “I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...

Churches have become a key piece of the immigrant defense movement in the Twin Cities, coordinating grocery deliveries and rent assistance for immigrant families hiding at home.

US House in bipartisan vote defies Trump, agrees to end his tariffs on Canada minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/r...

A failed effort to indict opposition lawmakers. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/r...

High-speed car chase involving federal agent ended with multi-car crash at Nina’s in St. Paul.

Danny Powerstorm said he has spotted federal agents parked outside his neighbourhood before dawn. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/i...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said at a fraud subcommittee meeting that the exodus of federal prosecutors, who left after prosecutors moved to investigate Renee Good's partner rather than the shooting itself, will set back the fight against fraud. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/10/k...

When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras that they could use to monitor ICE activity in the area. The system has helped neighbors interrupt around a dozen immigrant arrests, Guntly says.

The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.

Republicans on US House Homeland panel defend immigration tactics at tense hearing minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/10/r...

Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday said that he expects the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota to wind down soon.

VA chaplains in Massachusetts told not to mention slain nurse Alex Pretti minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/10/v...

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The ongoing immigration surge has created a climate of fear — not just for the criminals and undocumented immigrants they claim to be targeting — but for ordinary families trying to maintain the routines and normalcy of childhood. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/10/t...

Health care workers want ICE out of hospitals, and blue states are responding minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/09/r...