Posted on 01/05/2026 11:26:45 AM PST by DFG
The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Twin Cities area as it escalates its federal crackdown amid a widening fraud scandal in Minnesota, multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the plan told CBS News.
The crackdown could involve roughly 2,000 agents and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation branch and Homeland Security Investigations, the agency's investigative arm tasked with fighting transnational crimes, the officials said. They requested anonymity to discuss operations that have not been publicly announced.
The plan is for the agents and officers to oversee a 30-day surge in operations in the Twin Cities area, making the region the first major target of the Trump administration's expanded immigration crackdown in the new year, officials said. Agents deployed from Homeland Security Investigations are expected to probe alleged cases of fraud, building on last month's inspection of dozens of sites in the Minneapolis area.
Officials said U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino, who has overseen controversial immigration roundups in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans, is expected to arrive in Minnesota to help lead immigration enforcement efforts, along with an unknown number of U.S. Border Patrol personnel.
The deployment, which began Sunday, represents one of the largest concentrations of DHS personnel in an American city in recent years. The move greatly expands the federal law enforcement footprint in Minnesota at a time of heightened political and community tension there.
According to senior law enforcement officials, the surge includes several hundred additional agents from Homeland Security Investigations, as well as hundreds of officers from ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations, which carries out immigration arrests and deportations.
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Somali’s?
Will they be staying at Hilton or Holiday Inn Express? LoL
This is the way to make an example of wrongdoing.
It will not stop all future stealing but it will have a positive influence.
Not everyone is eager to go to jail for the rest of their life.
Trump's team goes where fraud and illegals hang out... Good for our side.
Happy to hear this, Minneapolis has been without law & order for too long.
Send agents to a city council meeting, ripe target environment.
Then, to the state Capitol & office buildings, another den of illegals.
👍
I hope we’ve learned our lesson, viz. sent our agents heavily armed. Forget water hoses and K-9 units. Go straight to plan B.
I hear Minneapolis is lovely this time of year.
Lol.
I kope they start arresting people from the top down (Walz, Omar) but arrest them all.
Yup—treat it as occupation of an enemy urban area.
“Was Nick Shirley the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Minneapolis?
Sweet Nick, make me immortal with a kiss...”
with credit to Christopher Marlowe....
Its much, much bigger than the Somali.
Really looking forward to the government videos.
Also looking forward to the citizen videos. Some of the rioters actually film each other breaking the law and confronting the Feds.
Quite a few girliemen whining.
ALL DEMOCRATS TO BURY THESE SCANDALS?
GREAT
More likely from the bottom-up. What better way to get a RICO case going than to have the lower-level fraudsters willing to turn over information on their organizers in exchange for lighter sentencing.
Hilton Hotels refuse service to DHS, ICE agents in Minneapolis
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-hilton-hotels-refuse-service-to-dhs-ice-agents-in-minneapolis
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