On a day with the windchill struggling to reach 0F, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE. “ICE Out of Minnesota!” "MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS – IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!" "Immigrants are not the problem" The march began at Latino marketplace Mercado Central at Lake and Bloomington ending at Karmel Mall at Lake and Pillsbury. This follows weeks of racist attacks by the President on the Minneapolis Somali community & politicians.
This photo is part of the ICE IN MINNEAPOLIS series covering “Operation Metro Surge”. The operation, which began in late December 2025 and intensified in January 2026, has drawn widespread local and national attention amid protests and confrontations.
On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renée Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent on Portland Ave — a killing that sparked immediate large scale protests. Less than three weeks later, on January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and Minneapolis resident, was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Nicollet Avenue. Between those incidents, federal agents also injured another man in North Minneapolis.
