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Officials denounced the Trump immigration crackdown in Minneapolis at an unofficial congressional hearing, while the president said he no longer saw a need to send in military forces.
President Trump appeared to back down on Friday from his threat to send military forces into Minneapolis. But Democratic officials and activists told members of Congress that it felt as though they were already living under a military occupation.
Convoys of agents from federal immigration agencies have swarmed the city in the first two weeks of 2026, spreading fear and violating constitutional rights, officials said in testimony at an unofficial hearing in the Minnesota Senate Building. They accused the Trump administration of profiling residents of color, ripping apart immigrant families and wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens as part of a campaign of political retribution.
“There is no modern precedent for this level of federal overreach,” Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who represents part of Minneapolis, told a panel of more than two dozen fellow Democratic members of Congress, describing the actions as violent and lawless.
It was Trump and ICE Agents that created the situation in Minneapolis. Swarming thousand of agents is meant scare and instill fear, instead the people in Minneapolis are fighting back and Trump hates it.
President Trump appeared to back down on Friday from his threat to send military forces into Minneapolis. But Democratic officials and activists told members of Congress that it felt as though they were already living under a military occupation.
Convoys of agents from federal immigration agencies have swarmed the city in the first two weeks of 2026, spreading fear and violating constitutional rights, officials said in testimony at an unofficial hearing in the Minnesota Senate Building. They accused the Trump administration of profiling residents of color, ripping apart immigrant families and wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens as part of a campaign of political retribution.
“There is no modern precedent for this level of federal overreach,” Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who represents part of Minneapolis, told a panel of more than two dozen fellow Democratic members of Congress, describing the actions as violent and lawless.
It was Trump and ICE Agents that created the situation in Minneapolis. Swarming thousand of agents is meant scare and instill fear, instead the people in Minneapolis are fighting back and Trump hates it.



