With throngs of people in Minnesota protesting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge, President Donald Trump and some of his allies repeatedly described the protesters as paid. "The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists," he said Jan. 18 on Truth Social.

Organizers in Minnesota encouraged people to close their businesses, skip school and not show up for work as part of an anti-ICE protest on Jan. 23.

DOJ says Minnesota churchgoers were "intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized" by anti-ICE agitators. They also added that at least one woman was hurt in the confrontation.

A crowd of at least 150 people gathered at the Brockport First Baptist Church to protest ICE’s actions in Minneapolis.“I went to [protests] for the Vietnam War. And this is nothing like that. Because this is the whole country and the whole world,

Tom Homan will oversee ICE operations in Minneapolis after the deaths of two U.S. citizens shot by federal immigration officers.

Rock ‘n’ roll legend Bruce Springsteen released a protest song Wednesday condemning the violence occurring at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis.

Texas state police deployed eye irritant toward protesters outside a federal detention facility where a Democratic congressman met with a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father who were detained in Minnesota.

Minnesotans have been protesting an immigration enforcement campaign in the Twin Cities that the Department of Homeland Security is calling “Operation Metro Surge.” Since it began in December, federal agents have shot and killed two Minneapolis residents, Renee Macklin Good on Jan. 7 and Alex Pretti on Saturday. Both were 37 and U.S. citizens.