Over 3,500 people were detained during Operation Metro Surge. Here’s where they went.

By: Alyssa Chen

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: June 16, 2026

Words: 2,074

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Most immigrants arrested in Operation Metro Surge were sent to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, after being detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota.

Nearly half of them were eventually deported, mostly to Mexico and Ecuador.

Only two people were deported to Somalia, according to the data, even though the ostensible reason for the immigration enforcement surge of federal agents to Minnesota in the winter was to target Somali …

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