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Source: theguardian.com
<p>After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US</p><p>When federal agents fatally <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/white-house-alex-pretti-backlash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">shot</a> US citizen protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January during the nationâs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/minnesota-immigration-agents-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">largest</a> immigration-enforcement operation ever, it marked a turning point for the second Trump administrationâs mass deportation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">campaign</a>.</p><p>Donald Trump in his second term had sparked outrage and huge protests with federal immigration officers descending en masse to one Democratic-run city after another in what some leaders called militarized âinvasionsâ. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles-ice-protests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/chicago-fight-ice-raids" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/charlotte-north-carolina-ice-raids" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Charlotte</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/new-orleans-ice-crackdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">New Orleans</a>, then <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/minnesota-ice-shooting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Minneapolis</a> saw lines of masked and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/a-week-of-ice-and-outrage-in-minneapolis-the-turmoil-of-the-days-leading-up-to-alex-prettis-death" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">armored officers</a> swaggering into town to conduct street arrests, ambushes of day workers waiting in Home Depot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/home-depot-ice-raids-los-angeles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">car parks</a> for hire, and neighborhood sweeps. Adults and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">kids</a> were whisked off to detention and protests met with aggressive deployment of chemical spray, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/minneapolis-ice-observers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">teargas</a>, fists and batons. The killings in Minneapolis were the culmination of what appeared to many to be a federal shock force increasingly out of control while being defended by federal leaders â and public opinion broadly turned <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">against</a> this violence.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/immigration-tactics-detention-approach" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>