legal residents with work authorization, or asylum seekers. The operation has seen a surge in lawsuits for wrongful detention in Minnesota.

Attempts by US citizens to observe or protest federal immigration raids have been met with surveillance, threats, arrests, and use of force including beatings, the use of chemical irritants, flashbangs, and LRADs. Journalists have been arrested after covering protests against ICE. Despite widely publicizing dozens of arrests of protestors, and referring to arrestees as