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   From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   While Border Czar Tom Homan said that most of the 3,000 federal agents   
   involved in Operation Metro Surge will be leaving Minnesota, some   
   officers will remain amid the lingering anti-ICE unrest — including   
   those investigating fraud and the storming of a St. Paul church by   
   anti-ICE agitators.   
      
   Alpha News has been the only Minnesota media organization granted a   
   behind-the-scenes look at the work ICE officers do in the state.   
      
   Alpha News senior reporter Liz Collin first rode along with officers in   
   September 2025. This week, Collin and her crew were back at the Whipple   
   Federal Building to see how things have changed.   
      
   This time, they were asked to wear bulletproof vests and face coverings.   
   And it’s easy to understand why, least of all since there are now   
   barricades outside spray-painted with “F–k ICE” — along with anti-ICE   
   agitators shouting obscenities at just about anyone going in or out of   
   the federal building.   
      
   About 150 officers are stationed at the St. Paul field office. The   
   office covers Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.   
      
   Despite the chaos in the streets, Sam Olson, who serves as the field   
   office director, told Collin that the surge has helped improve public   
   safety in Minnesota.   
      
   “Just from the arrests that we made — and I see some of the reports —   
   the arrests that had criminal histories were very significant. There’s   
   people that have been convicted for sex crimes, significant assaults,   
   manslaughter, all of these things and that we were able to take into our   
   custody and some we’re going to be able to remove from the U.S.,” Olson   
   explained.   
      
   This follows the evidence that Homan detailed, including how in just 10   
   weeks, more than 4,000 illegal aliens were arrested, and more than 3,300   
   missing, unaccompanied children were located in Minnesota.   
      
   Back in September, Olson told Collin that the lack of cooperation from   
   some county jails makes everyone less safe. But now, unhinged public   
   interference has made the already dangerous situation even worse.   
      
   “I remember when I first started, I would just every morning go to   
   Hennepin County and then Ramsey County and interview aliens right at the   
   jail … Now, we don’t have any space at the jail. There’s really no   
   communication. If somebody is booked in that’s here illegally, they   
   don’t contact us,” Olson said in September. “We’re out here on the   
   street sitting and waiting with seven or eight officers just for one   
   person. We could flip that around, we could have seven or eight people   
   at Hennepin County jail that we’re assuming custody of with two of our   
   officers.”   
      
   Now, however, things have changed.   
      
   “I think the biggest thing has changed is that those lines of   
   communication are open. We’re having conversations with a lot of the   
   sheriffs, a lot of the police departments. And I think that’s the   
   biggest thing that we’ve asked for,” Olson said.   
      
   Olson also pointed out that cooperation with local law enforcement   
   outside of jails has been another game changer.   
      
   “When there’s a call for help when there’s people … violating a state   
   or   
   local ordinance and that has helped. When Hennepin County was here and   
   they helped with putting up some of the fencing out there, keeping some   
   of the the agitators out of the street, that was a big help and when   
   people did violate the local laws, they took an action and that was very   
   helpful. After the lines of communication got opened up and we talk   
   almost daily with a lot of the area law enforcement, I think that has   
   been very helpful,” Olson explained.   
      
   What has not been helpful, Olson said, has been the sometimes shocking   
   rhetoric that has gone on for months.   
      
   For example, Gov. Tim Walz previously referred to ICE agents as the   
   “Gestapo” and made a reference about being at war with the federal   
   government.   
      
   Walz also encouraged people to “witness” and record ICE officers so they   
   could be prosecuted for “atrocities.”   
      
   Likewise, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan made public comments on social media   
   telling protesters to put their bodies on the line in taking action   
   against ICE.   
      
      
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