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Reports of ICE “raiding” Somali restaurants in the Twin Cities are turning Minneapolis into a pressure cooker, but the labels are doing more work than the facts. While activists scream “raid” to signal collective punishment, the reality on the ground is Operation Metro Surge—a 2,000-agent federal deployment aimed at dismantling a massive fraud network. Since December 2025, feds have been tracking the money from the 250 million dollar Feeding Our Future scandal, and those trails often lead through businesses used as front operations. It is not an “occupation” of a community; it is a follow-the-money operation that is finally holding scammers accountable after years of local failure.
