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ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis

HeadlineDec 09, 2025

In Minnesota, students and staff at Augsburg University in Minneapolis say federal immigration agents pointed guns at a crowd that gathered to protest the arrest of an undergraduate student on Saturday. In a statement, the university wrote that the ICE agents lacked a signed judicial warrant, which is required for them to enter private buildings. It was just one of several reports of ICE agents physically threatening and wrongfully detaining people swept up in what ICE is calling “Operation Metro Surge,” targeting Minnesota’s Somali community, which President Trump described in a racist tirade last week as “garbage.”

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