Early on the morning of January 7th, the activist and registered nurse Michael Cavlan received an alert on his phone warning him about Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity near his house in Minneapolis. The previous day, the Department of Homeland Security had announced that it would be deploying 2,000 immigration agents to the city to take part in Operation Metro Surge, a campaign of mass detention and deportation that the Trump Administration advertised as the largest D.H.S. undertaking ever. On that day, the ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renée Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and an American citizen who was, like Cavlan and other activists, monitoring ICE’s presence. Over the course of the operation, more than 3,000 federal agents were sent to Minneapolis, nearly 4,000 immigrants were detained, and two American citizens were killed by agents. The surge formally ended in February, but the human—and moral—cost has lingered. Investigations into the agents responsible for the deaths have stalled, prompting tension between federal and state powers. In June, the federal government charged fifteen Minnesotans with impeding or assaulting federal officers. At the link in our bio, Emily Witt reports on the violence in Minneapolis, and how the city is resisting and rebuilding with its characteristic earnestness and determination. Photographs by Philip Cheung (@philipcheungphoto) for The New Yorker.
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