As scores of federal immigration agents leave the state and Operation Metro Surge winds down, Minnesotans are taking stock of what has happened and what comes next.
Tausha Menaquale was at Glam Doll Donuts in Minneapolis today, near the site of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting three weeks ago.
“I feel bad for all of the immigrant-run businesses here that have been affected, the families that have been torn apart,” said Menaquale, 36. “The trauma that people have experienced isn’t something that goes away.”
Whittier Alliance Executive Director Anna Schmitz said she doesn’t think “anything’s over yet.”
“It’s good news that it seems that agents will be leaving, and at the same time they are leaving a pretty huge wave of economic devastation in their wake.”
- Some Minnesotans are paying for permanent reminders of the past several months.
- Operation Metro Surge has cost Minneapolis more than $200 million, city officials announced this week.
- Two federal agents have been placed on leave for making “untruthful statements” about the events that led to a nonfatal shooting in north Minneapolis last month, DHS said.
- 911 transcripts shed new light on Pretti’s shooting and the chaos that followed.
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