{"id":66986,"date":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/how-daily-routines-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul-have-changed-amid-3000-federal-immigration-agents-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:56:42","slug":"how-daily-routines-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul-have-changed-amid-3000-federal-immigration-agents-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/how-daily-routines-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul-have-changed-amid-3000-federal-immigration-agents-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"How daily routines in Minneapolis and St Paul have changed amid 3,000 federal immigration agents \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have been sheltering at home. Protests have become part of the daily rhythm. Community networks continue to patrol and document agents\u2019 interactions<\/p>\n<p>In St Paul, Minnesota, Brittany Kubricky pulled into a school parking lot. Normally, she was there just to pick up her daughter. But today, two of her daughter\u2019s schoolmates also climbed into the backseat. Their mother had been sheltering at home for weeks, afraid of a run-in with federal immigration agents. So friends coordinated school pickup for her.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Trump administration launched Operation Metro Surge, deploying a reported 3,000 agents to Minnesota to target undocumented immigrants with criminal records, officials said. But in two months, agents have instead detained thousands of people, regardless of legal status, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/aliya-rahman-citizen-ice-arrest-9.7047853\">US citizens pulled out of their cars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182\">taken from their homes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sc_d6O2C4pk\">picked up while working<\/a>. Agents have also killed two Minneapolis residents \u2013 and US citizens \u2013 Renee Good and Alex Pretti, while they were monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/22\/minneapolis-st-paul-daily-routines-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have been sheltering at home. Protests have become part of the daily rhythm. Community networks continue to patrol and document agents\u2019 interactions In St Paul, Minnesota, Brittany Kubricky pulled into a school parking lot. Normally, she was there just to pick up her daughter. But today, two of her daughter\u2019s schoolmates also climbed &#8230; <a title=\"How daily routines in Minneapolis and St Paul have changed amid 3,000 federal immigration agents \u2013 in pictures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/how-daily-routines-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul-have-changed-amid-3000-federal-immigration-agents-in-pictures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How daily routines in Minneapolis and St Paul have changed amid 3,000 federal immigration agents \u2013 in pictures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}