Anxious customers, absent workers: businesses adapt to ICE surge

At an Eden Prairie restaurant, owners describe how immigration enforcement has altered daily operations.

By: Rachel Hoppe

Outlets: Eden Prairie Local News

Published: January 27, 2026

Words: 964

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Eden Prairie businesses say they are feeling the effects of heightened federal immigration enforcement across Minnesota.

Some business owners report fewer customers and employees missing work out of fear for their safety. Those fears intensified after about 3,000 federal immigration agents arrived in Minnesota in early December as part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation known as Operation Metro Surge.

The future of Operation Metro Surge — the initiative that brought thousands of …

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