Operation Metro Surge, conducted between December 2025 and mid-March 2026, resulted in 4,030 arrests in Minnesota. ICE labeled approximately 1,300 arrests (35 percent) as "collateral," meaning the detainees were not intended targets. Data revealed 63 percent of those arrested had no criminal convictions or pending charges. On February 13, ICE agents detained a 52-year-old Ecuadorian man after stopping a vehicle in an elementary school parking lot while searching for someone named Helen; he was released four days later after a judge ordered his release when ICE did not challenge facts in his habeas petition.