Crowd Surrounds ICE Agents During Enforcement Operation In Minneapolis

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carrying out an operation in Minneapolis on Monday found themselves surrounded by anti-ICE rioters, according to video posted by local media.

ICE is surging into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations surfaced suggesting around $1 billion in fraud, with the Treasury Department investigating whether some of the proceeds from the scheme went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab. WCCO reporter Jonah Kaplan postedvideos of the standoff on X Monday.

“Dozens swarm @ICEgov agents operating in South Minneapolis,” Kaplan posted. “Officers now ordering people off the streets in increasingly volatile situation.”

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Kaplan later posted a second video showing agents using paintball guns in an attempt to control the crowd prior to the arrival of Hennepin County sheriff deputies.

Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said during a Dec. 7 interview that city police would not cooperate with a federal immigration enforcement operation launched in the wake of the growing fraud scandal in Minnesota. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz