Minneapolis leaders call the ICE surge a ‘siege’. My reporting from there concurs

After covering Trump's immigration policies from Chicago and LA, the Twin Cities operation feels like a marked escalation

The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board described the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities as a military occupation". Local leaders have used words like siege" and invasion". After a week of reporting in Minneapolis and St Paul, I wouldn't know how else to describe the scene.

I've been covering the administration's immigration policies since Donald Trump's inauguration on 20 January last year. I was in Chicago in January last year, when the administration assigned hundreds of federal agents to conduct enhanced targeted operations" in the city. I was in Los Angeles last summer, when agents began seizing workers at car washes and garment warehouses, grabbing bicyclists and raiding churches.