Jessica Tezoquipa

Border czar Tom Homan calls Operation Metro Surge a success, announcing a withdrawal of Inmigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents from Minneapolis and an end to the operation. Agents will be redeployed elsewhere, Homan stating, “We have a lot of work to do across this country to remove public-safety risks,” according to the Star Tribune. 

Homan claims “victory” in Minneapolis, stating, “as a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals.” Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on the official White House website, “At President Trump’s direction, Tom Homan’s commitment to draw down forces in Minneapolis today follows these achievements and the new, unprecedented cooperation from state and local officials in Minnesota. Commitments like these from elected officials to work with the President and federal law enforcement produce tremendous outcomes that help keep Americans safe.” Homan also expressed gratitude towards Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey for calling for peaceful protests and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara for cooperation and “efforts to maintain law and order in the streets,” he stated at an early news conference. 

After two months, of the four thousand people ICE claimed were “dangerous criminal illegal aliens,” only 14% had criminal records. Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis 200 million dollars for the month of Jan. 2026 alone, according to the city of Minneapolis Emergency Operations Center’s preliminary impact assessment, which focused on four sectors: food, livelihood, shelter and mental health services, as well as five million dollars in police overtime.

Nick Shirley, as well as other personalities, has been bringing attention to California on sites like X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube. They have been recording outside of day care and people’s homes, demanding to see the children inside and threatening to label them as a “Somalian money laundering scheme.” As well as investigating locations on California’s public voter rolls and posting videos on YouTube claiming that not a single location could verify voter rolls in an attempt to expose voter fraud. Shirley is an independent journalist and social media influencer who created the video “I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal” which garnered 3.9 million views and brought online attention to Minneapolis in relation to Immigration Enforcement.

Mehmet Cengiz Oz, otherwise known as Dr. Oz, is claiming that the “Russian Armenian mafia” is running “sham hospice businesses” to steal federal healthcare funds. Unlike Shirley or other online personalities, he has political power, as he is the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and has said the agency will withhold 300 million dollars from California because it’s using it for “non-emergency healthcare for illegals.”
These tactics are very similar to what brought federal attention to Minnesota, and have already brought President Trump’s attention to California, saying, “California, under Gov. Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that’s possible??? The Fraud Investigation of California has begun,” he wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 6.