Reflecting on the immigration enforcement surge and what comes next

MPR News with Angela Davis · Jun 9, 2026 · 47m

This past Saturday marked five months since Renee Good was shot and killed on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

The federal officer was one of about 4,000 immigration and border enforcement agents sent to Minnesota during the immigration crackdown the White House called “Operation Metro Surge.”

The focus was to deport — in the words of President Donald Trump — the “really bad criminals.”

By the time the surge wound down weeks later, several thousand people had been detained. Many were deported. Most had no criminal record. Many more immigrants stopped…