BORTAC Agents Detain a Man Outside the Whipple Building

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Arrest at Minneapolis ICE Detention Center
U.S. Border Patrol Agents Arrest at Minneapolis ICE Detention Center.

U.S. Border Patrol officers with the BORTAC team make an arrest at the Whipple building near Minneapolis. The Whipple building had been used as an ICE detention center and been a place of protest since December 2025. Find more photos like this on my Operation Metro Surge: Ice in Minneapolis page.

Photo taken in January 2026.

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