Trump administration ends Minnesota immigration operation
Border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Minnesota’s immigration operation after a deadly shooting sparked tensions and community backlash.
On June 16, the Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 15 people for allegedly conspiring to obstruct and injure police officers during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota from around January to June 2026.
At a news conference announcing the charges in Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said the alleged conspiracy was related to efforts by two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups that violently opposed law enforcement. “Antifa” is a collective term for various groups engaged in anti-fascist movements, and President Donald Trump designated it a major terrorist organization in September.
“These defendants were charged with what they did, not what they said,” Rosen said.
“They all participated in an agreement, a conspiracy, to disrupt legitimate immigration enforcement operations,” he added. “The conspiracy was not to interfere with their voices, but by force.”
The defendant’s attorney could not immediately be identified.
The indictment, which was unsealed on June 16, alleges the defendants attempted to shut down immigration operations by using “hard blockades” such as timber, leaf blowers and vehicles to impede the movement of officers, and “soft blockades” such as homemade shields that were used to get between officers when they resisted.
One of the defendants, Kyle Wagner, is also charged with abetting another person to commit a crime of violence. During a press conference on June 16, Rosen played a video that he said was of Wagner.
“My name is Kyle. I’m Antifa. I have so much anger inside me that I had to record this 15 times to get the message across,” the man in the video said.
“We’re no longer talking about peaceful protests. We’re no longer talking about having civil conversations,” the man said in the video, adding that he was speaking specifically to his followers.
“Get a gun and stop these people,” the man added.
