Minnesota’s Attorney General Isn’t Backing Down

More To The Story : Earlier this year, parts of Minneapolis resembled a war zone. The Minnesota city had become the violent epicenter of President Donald Trump’s immigration raids as thousands of masked agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol roamed the streets in what was known as Operation Metro Surge. Thousands of immigrants, many of whom had no criminal record, were detained. Children were arrested. High schoolers were pepper-sprayed. And two US citizens—Renée Good and Alex Pretti—were shot and killed by immigration agents. Following weeks of protests, the White House reversed course and ramped down immigration enforcement. But hundreds of agents are still there as state officials like Attorney General Keith Ellison are left to clean up the mess. On this week’s More To The Story , Ellison talks with host Al Letson about the economic damage from the Trump administration’s ICE raids and persistent fears within immigrant communities, his congressional confrontation with Sen. Josh Hawley over a Covid-19 fraud scheme, and why he refuses to back down from the what he describes as the “Trump onslaught.” Producer: Josh Sanburn | Editor: Kara McGuirk-Allison | Theme music: Fernando Arruda and Jim Briggs | Copy editor: Nikki Frick | Digital producer: Josh Sanburn | Deputy executive producer: Taki Telonidis | Executive producer: Brett Myers | Executive editor: James West | Host: Al Letson Listen: How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back ( Reveal ) Read: Top Trump Official Says FBI Won’t Investigate Killing by ICE Agent ( Mother Jones ) Watch: Minnesota and Immigration Enforcement Officials Testify Before Senate Committee (C-SPAN) Read: Transcript of Feeding Our Future/Keith Ellison Audio Recording Donate today at Revealnews.org/more

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Minnesota’s Attorney General Isn’t Backing Down is an episode from Reveal by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.

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This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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