Chaos reigns in Minneapolis as rioters and left-wing politicians attempt to stop federal agents from conducting immigration enforcement efforts.
For weeks, the federal government has been apprehending criminal illegal aliens who are present in the Twin Cities. This effort, dubbed Operation Metro Surge, has been met with outrage and opposition from left-wingers since it was launched in December.
Democratic leaders have denigrated ICE officers with toxic rhetoric; activist groups have circulated methods to illegally interfere with ICE operations; and Minneapolis residents have destroyed law enforcement vehicles and obstructed federal agents.
Last night, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that a federal agent was attacked by a group while attempting to conduct a traffic stop of an illegal alien.
This morning, President Donald Trump said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to quell the unrest “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
To date, DHS has arrested over 2,000 in connection with Operation Metro Surge.
On Wednesday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, “Despite violence against [federal agents] and a lack of cooperation from sanctuary politicians, our law enforcement will not stop their efforts to get criminals out of our country.”
DHS unveils the ‘worst of the worst’ arrested in Minnesota
While Operation Metro Surge has been going on since late last year, the operation became national news last week after the ICE-involved shooting that resulted in the death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Good was reportedly obstructing ICE on the morning of Jan. 7 when an altercation occurred that resulted in an ICE agent shooting and killing Good. Federal authorities have said the ICE agent acted in self-defense after Good weaponized her vehicle against the agent.
Since then, anti-ICE protests have broken out, federal agents have encountered heavy obstruction from local residents, and Minnesota has once again become the focus of the national media. As the situation has developed, DHS began publishing lists of who they have arrested in Operation Metro Surge.
According to DHS, the list includes criminal illegal aliens from Liberia, Thailand, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, Nigeria, and Laos. Further, DHS said individuals from that group have been convicted of armed robbery of a business, burglary, indecent exposure, criminal sexual conduct, drug possession with intent to distribute, and willful reckless driving.
Among the list is Meng Khong Yang. DHS described Yang as “a criminal illegal alien from Laos with TWELVE criminal convictions including indecent exposure, possession of, manufacturing, and selling methamphetamine, selling cocaine, dangerous drugs, burglary, and fraud – impersonation.”
Additionally, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin obtained a list from ICE which documents even more individuals who have been picked up by DHS in Minnesota. According to Melugin, the list includes individuals convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy, sodomy of a girl under age 13, sexual assault of a child, homicide, and manslaughter.
NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley also published a list of gang members who have been arrested in Minnesota, including members of MS-13.
In a statement published Wednesday, McLaughlin said “another day, another scourge of sexual predators, violent assailants, domestic abusers, and drug traffickers arrested from the streets of Minnesota by our law enforcement. We are in Minnesota to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”
Luke Sprinkel
Luke Sprinkel previously worked as a Legislative Assistant at the Minnesota House of Representatives. He grew up as a Missionary Kid (MK) living in England, Thailand, Tanzania, and the Middle East. Luke graduated from Regent University in 2018.
