ICE Director Todd Lyons said the agents are going “door to door.”
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In Minnesota, federal immigration authorities are conducting “the largest immigration operation ever”, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Newsmax on Tuesday. He spoke of an effort undertaken by several agencies targeting suspected employers of illegal aliens and investigations that include fraud and potential human trafficking.
Agents are going “door to door” to locations that are suspected of being linked to illegal activities, Lyons said on “National Report.” The agencies hard at work are ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations, he said.
The current mammoth operation goes beyond investigating the alleged employment of illegal aliens, Lyons said. Investigators are concentrating on “potential human smuggling, human trafficking cases,” and “these fraud cases as well.”
🚨 JUST IN: HEAVILY armed ICE agents just conducted a raid in Minneapolis and picked up an Ecuadorian man wanted for MURDER
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 6, 2026
THIS is who Tim Walz is trying so hard to protect
Sorry Tim Tim — your violent imported voters are going HOME! pic.twitter.com/Xb38xyqmKd
“States like Minnesota that have a strong sanctuary city policy and sanctuary protections do attract other illegal aliens to come there to take advantage of welfare, public assistance, SNAP benefits,” he said, calling those programs “a magnet” that can allow a “criminal element” to “hide in plain sight.”
Lyons praised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was in Minnesota during the operation. He said authorities captured individuals he described as serious suspects.
“She ran an awesome, successful operation: got a suspected murderer and a wanted rapist that was hiding in plain sight in Minneapolis,” Lyons said.
Still, though ICE agents are doing a good job, they are up against great odds, Lyons said. One factor is that the officers are working in sanctuary jurisdictions, which makes it harder for them to remove “criminal illegal aliens” from communities, he added.
🚨 WOW! ICE is ALREADY filling up their detention centers in Minnesota as 2,000 agents stage a BLITZ in the Twin Cities
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 6, 2026
We’re going to need a LOT more deportation planes out here!
LET’S GO!!!! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/eY2hjGPfxV
“They’re up there taking the fight to these sanctuary jurisdictions that allow these criminal, illegal aliens to roam the street and take advantage of the public assistance that should be there for every taxpaying American,” he said.
Lyons also weighed in on a high-profile debate over whether federal immigration agents should be banned from donning masks, saying public disclosure of identifying information has put personnel at risk.
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