Minnesotans travel to D.C. to press for ICE funding cuts after Operation Metro Surge

By: Madison McVan

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: February 17, 2026

Words: 1,031

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Salah Mohamed was 21 the first time he visited Washington D.C. It was 2003, and he arrived on a bus full of Minnesotans traveling to the nation’s capital to protest the Iraq War.

The second time was last week, when he sat across the table from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to plead for accountability for the behavior of immigration agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge, which took the lives …

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