Operation Metro Surge: 3,000 Federal Agents Deployed to Minneapolis, Trump Threatens Insurrection Act

The Trump administration deployed more than 3,000 federal agents — including over 2,000 ICE officers and hundreds of Border Patrol personnel — to the Minneapolis–St. Paul area in what DHS called the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. The operation coincided with ICE agent Jonathan Ross killing U.S. citizen Renée Good on January 7, 2026. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced DOJ found no basis for a criminal investigation into Ross, while at least six Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned in protest after receiving directives to investigate Good's widow's First Amendment-protected activity. On January 15, President Trump threatened on Truth Social to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act against Minnesota protesters, a legal authority no president has invoked without state request since 1965.