The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the results of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, which led to the arrest of several individuals described as criminal illegal aliens involved in fraud, theft, and drug trafficking. According to DHS, these arrests took place despite a lack of cooperation from state and local officials.
DHS stated that since President Trump took office, Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have released nearly 470 criminal illegal aliens into American communities by not cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The department has called on both officials to prioritize public safety and comply with ICE detainers for more than 1,360 individuals currently in custody in Minnesota.
“Another day and more perpetrators of fraud, thieves, and drug traffickers arrested from the streets of Minnesota by our brave law enforcement,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “We are in Minnesota to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey refuse to let us into their jails and instead chose to release criminal illegal aliens back into Minnesota neighborhoods to victimize more Americans. Despite violence against them and a lack of cooperation from sanctuary politicians, our law enforcement will not stop their efforts to get these dirtbags out of our country.”
Among those arrested during Operation Metro Surge were Khin Zaw Than from Burma, convicted of vehicle theft, obstructing police, possession of burglary tools, drug possession, and driving under the influence; Juan Gonzalez-Escamilla, who has been removed from the U.S. thirteen times and convicted on multiple charges including driving under the influence, obstructing police, fraud, and impersonation; Juan Pablo Torres Cheme from Ecuador, convicted of drug trafficking; Ying Li, convicted of prostitution; and Fadhily Abubakari Mshihiri from Tanzania, convicted of larceny.
