Lack of judicial warrant thwarts ICE arrest in Minnesota

Описание: (29 Jan 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota - 28 January 2026
1. Various of agents during an immigration enforcement operation

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) ICE officer involved in the immigration enforcement operation:
“This person, they saw us and they ran. Twice deported, convicted of domestic abuse and released. That’s who we’re here for, you know? That’s what we’re here for. But, you know, they’d rather call the police on us than to help us. Go figure.”

3. Various of agents during an immigration enforcement operation

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kari Rod, Brooklyn Center resident:
“They’re never the loud house, right? They’re never the people shooting off fireworks in the middle of the night. You know, all of those things that can make neighbors hard. They’ve been there for a long time as far as I’ve known.”

5. Agents during an immigration enforcement operation

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kari Rod, Brooklyn Center resident:
“And the fact that federal agents are coming into my community and taking someone away when 70% of the time, currently, they are not criminals. I don’t trust them. I don’t trust a single thing they said about who they are. From my interactions, I know them way better than anyone else does. Any one of those federal agents.”

7. Agents during an immigration enforcement operation

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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kari Rod, Brooklyn Center resident:
“The fact that ICE has been haunting our neighborhood since June, and they took our neighbor in the yellow house who’s been here for 30 years and deported him to Laos. On June 7 they took him and left behind his son who’s 8 and his other son who’s 13, and a 20-year-old daughter and a 25-year-old daughter, and a 3-year-old little girl. And they took him away from them, and now that family is struggling. That’s not happening again. And we watched that one happen, and we didn’t know what to do then.”

9. Various of agents and neighbors during and after an immigration enforcement operation:

10. SOUNDBITE (English) ICE officer involved in the immigration enforcement operation:
“You don’t know what you’re talking about. When you tell me what law school you went to, then you come talk to me. I’ve been to law school. So you tell when you know what the hell you’re talking about, then you can come tell me. Ah, shut the hell up. Street lawyers, they know every goddamn thing."
STORYLINE:
On Wednesday afternoon in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said they had failed to apprehend the man they were looking for because he ran into a house and the agents lacked a judicial warrant to get inside.

“Twice deported, convicted of domestic abuse, and released. That’s who we’re for,” he told the AP as another officer loudly knocked on the door, saying in Spanish, “Carlos open the door!”

There’s been considerable controversy over the power of the warrants for arrest of migrants considered illegally present or otherwise deportable, which are issued by the Department of Homeland Security, versus those issued by a judge. The key difference is whether agents can forcibly enter a private property to make an arrest, as they were captured on video doing in Minneapolis earlier this month.

As a handful of activists blew their whistles around him, the first agent in Brooklyn Center added: “They’d rather call the police on us than to help us. Go figure.”



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