It’s time for the legislature to take action to support our communities and this bill is one step forward. Metro Surge set many small businesses in SD51 back and the dramatic loss of income hurts in ongoing ways. Support with basic housing assistance will help them recover. youtu.be/_0lAKTZcX0Y

For many reasons, we need to make sure Hennepin County Medical Center continues to serve our community. Trauma care that is needed by MN residents, training for health care providers and special services like the poison control center are vital. Federal actions are causing huge declines in funding.

Today, our 2026 session begins and I’m grateful for being together with my colleagues, especially Sen Hoffman. Gratitude for being able to work on the issues important to Minnesotans is mixed with grief at not having Speaker Emerita Hortman with us. I’m glad we will honor her and her family today ❤️

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Unfortunately, the sculpture was destroyed by Jake Lang, who was charged with assaulting an officer with a bat during Jan 6. Pardoned by Trump, he's now being charged with felony destruction of property. Two veterans groups paid for the sculpture he destroyed. www.kare11.com/article/news...

A beautiful ice sculpture on the MN state capitol plaza. A crystal clear ice sculpture with a crystal clear message for protecting our democracy and constitutional rights: "Prosecute ICE" ICE agents who violate laws & constitutional rights should be prosecuted as anyone else would be.

Operation Metro Surge is not making Minnesota safer. Today's announcement is a step in the right direction, but we need a faster and larger drawdown of forces, state-led investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and an end to this campaign of retribution.

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

“This is a reckless operation. It's tearing communities apart, and it's traumatizing our neighbors,” Rep. Kelly Morrison said after visiting the Whipple Federal Building. She also described the atmosphere inside as chaotic, disorganized and unsafe.

Thank you, @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social , I hope you can speak to leadership in Congress to make sure they clearly understand that this is happening, there has been no slowdown and it is not right. It isn't acceptable for people to be treated like this in Minnesota or elsewhere.

JUST IN: The five-year-old Columbia Heights Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who have been in an ICE detention facility in Texas, are on their way home.

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

More than 110 lawmakers from 27 states came together for a Day of Solidarity with Minnesota communities. States have both the authority and the obligation to protect civil rights, demand accountability, and act together when our constitutional rights and democratic principles are threatened.

Visited the very beautiful memorial commemorating Alex Pretti. I appreciate the care of neighbors and friends who have left candles and flowers along with tributes to the wonderful person who was such a good caregiver to everyone he knew.

I was proud to see Richfield Mayor Supple testify today along with St Louis Park Mayor Mohamed about the impact of illegal ICE activity on their communities. Mayor Supple conveyed the impact on trust and safety in her community and others across our state along with enormous negative economic impact

We live in a metropolitan area of the United States. People who are going about their lives like other Americans are being taken away for no reason and trauma is being inflicted at schools, hospitals, neighborhoods. It’s appalling that complaints are made about their dining options being affected.

Today, in a massive show of support, 1,025 organizations, including immigrant justice, human rights, civil rights, faith, and labor organizations, sent a letter to members of Congress to express horror, outrage & deep grief about the recent shooting deaths by federal agents in Minneapolis.

“Operation Metro Surge has been an unmitigated disaster.” Those were words of a Republican candidate and attorney as he dropped his bid for Minnesota governor yesterday. Where are the voices of our state’s Republican elected leaders? Silence is complicity.

Imagine being a congressman from Minnesota and caring so little about what’s happening here that you just copy and paste talking points. If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?

A statement released by the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

In honor of Alex and Renee. May our communities feel connected and strengthened despite distance and the cold temperatures this day.

The killing of Alex Pretti is another devastating event that hurts all of us in our community. It’s senseless and ICE must leave our state NOW. My senate colleagues and I have shared the statement below ❤️

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts

ICE detained St. Paul resident ChongLy Scott Thao in his underwear. The suspect whom agents were looking for was already in prison — and has been there since Sept. 4, 2024. bit.ly/4qxjGeJ

Here is a literal preschooler wearing a Spider-Man backpack, just like all of our kids, as the hand of a much larger masked ICE agent holds onto his backpack, as if he were a flight risk.

To any colleagues who don't see a problem with what ICE is doing in Minnesota: What's it going to take? When is enough, enough?

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"'Our operations are lawful, targeted and focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community,' Bovino said..." Again, Liam is **five**. Five years old.

Terrorizing our kids is not going to make our communities safer. ICE needs to end this surge in Minnesota – and I refuse to vote to send more funding to DHS and ICE when they continue to trample on the rights of Minnesotans and make our communities less safe.

2 children, one of them an elementary student confirmed to be in a Texas detention facility. Incredible

An assault on our democracy and the rule of law. Speaking out against what our government is doing is not a crime in America—not now, not ever.

Patient health is the number one priority. Health care workers should never be forced to choose between doing their job and protecting their patients from masked agents. Any ICE presence in health care settings endangers everyone. My statement with other legislators: senatedfl.mn/lawmakers-re...

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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

🚨BREAKING: @ag.state.mn.us just announced that the state (along with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul) is suing the Department of Homeland Security to end Operation Metro Surge and get ICE out of Minnesota. ICE OUT NOW!

The Native American Caucus condemns the illegal ICE detention of Oglala Sioux relatives and a Red Lake Nation descendant, and interrogation and harassment of countless community members. Deportation of people who have existed on these lands is not only impossible, it is absurd.

They’re targeting and invading Minnesota. Cutting off all of our federal funding and flooding our state with federal agents with no purpose. They’re here to terrorize, cause chaos to justify their unlawful cruelty. Enough.

Attacks on our immigrant communities are compounding the harm that Minnesotans are enduring thru federal funding freezes. Childcare providers and families report growing fear and uncertainty about their daily lives… 1/2

I issued a statement earlier today expressing my support for the Attorney General’s suit to block the Trump freeze of childcare funding and I’m glad to see that a judge has put a temporary restraining order in place tonight. senatedfl.mn/senator-meli...

Great news: we have secured a temporary pause to Trump’s latest assault on the most vulnerable Minnesota families. My team and I will be in court working to permanently block Trump’s illegal and deeply cruel actions.

Tomorrow we observe a Day of Unity in honor of Renee Good, who was killed by ICE. 10AM - STATEWIDE MOMENT OF SILENCE 4-5:30PM - VIGIL OF ACTION AND MOURNING, MN Capitol In the face of such extreme violence, Minnesotans stand up for our neighbors. We will seek accountability and justice.

Statement from the [Jimmy] Carter Center

As a member of the Minneapolis delegation I am in strong support of this statement and agree there must be accountability and ICE must leave our cities, our Minnesota.

Incredible.

The shooting in Minneapolis today is horrific. The truth will come out and justice must be served. My prayers go out to the family, this is heartbreaking.

Announcing a freeze of funding on social media is irresponsible and dangerous. Disruption to child care affects families across the state. As more information becomes available, I will continue to support and work with the state agency and the providers who make access to child care possible.

Thinking about Kari and how lucky I feel to have known and to have served with her. She was a very special person who helped many with her commitment to service. ❤️