Operation Metro Surge showed the hidden public safety cost of immigration crackdowns

By: Thaddeus L. Johnson, Diane Goldstein

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 751

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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As Minneapolis surveys the fallout from Operation Metro Surge, the true cost of heavy-handed federal immigration enforcement is coming into focus. Recent reporting has put the price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars, driven by increased police overtime, lost wages and declining business activity.

But those figures don’t capture deeper disruptions to public safety that are harder to measure and slower to repair.

In January, federal authorities flooded the Twin Cities …

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