❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has swept up criminal illegal aliens, including killers and child molesters.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, criminal illegals, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D).
📍WHEN & WHERE: January 2026, Minnesota.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Many of these public safety threats were released from Minnesota jails. We are calling on Governor Walz and Mayor Frey to honor the more than 1,360 detainers of the illegal aliens in Minnesota jails.” – Tricia McLaughlin
🎯IMPACT: The operation aims to enhance public safety by detaining and deporting dangerous foreigners.
Illegal immigrants detained in Minnesota by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of Operation Metro Surge include many with serious criminal backgrounds, including convictions for pedophilia, homicide, and drug trafficking.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin emphasized the importance of these arrests, stating, “Many of these public safety threats were released from Minnesota jails. We are calling on Governor [Tim] Walz and [Minneapolis] Mayor [Jacob] Frey to honor the more than 1,360 detainers of the illegal aliens in Minnesota jails.”
She added that, “Despite horrific smears and violent assaults against them, our officers continue to put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”
Some of those arrested last week were Jose Eliborio Ocampo-Leon, convicted for criminal sexual conduct with a victim under the age of 16, Rudy Alexander Pineda-Aguilar, convicted for criminal sexual conduct, and Gerardo Sanchez-Acuna, convicted of drug trafficking.
On a website detailing the “worst of the worst” illegal immigrants it has detained, DHS provides a more expansive selection of foreign criminals, including many convicted of gruesome crimes such as strongarm sodomy of a girl, rape with a weapon, and sex offenses against disabled victims.
Several have convictions for homicide, with Gilberto Salguero Landaverde of El Salvador among those standing out as having been convicted of three counts of homicide.
Nevertheless, state Democrats, including Walz and Frey, have argued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Minnesota as “a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government” that is making residents less safe.
Walz characterized ICE agents, whom he has previously compared to the Gestapo, as “going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live,” and “kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.” Meanwhile, Frey has publicly called on ICE to “Get the f**k out of Minneapolis.”
Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith have also attacked ICE, with the former saying, “We need ICE out of Minnesota, they are not making us more safe,” and the latter saying, “Get the f**k out of my town, leave us alone, you are making us less safe, and you need to leave.”
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