Lawyers filed over 1,000 lawsuits challenging immigrant detentions during Operation Metro Surge

By: Max Nesterak

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: February 19, 2026

Words: 1,780

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge, federal judges in Minnesota have repeatedly ruled — hundreds of times — that immigration agents illegally arrested and detained people and must release them.

Among them: a man from Ecuador who’s lived in the United States for more than 20 years and was arrested outside his suburban home without a warrant; a Colombian woman pursuing an asylum claim who was taken into custody without a warrant during a …

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