Hi, everybody. It's Cheryl Atkinson. Welcome to another edition of full measure after hours.

This week, I was on site during the last week of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, the largest and

most controversial illegal immigration crackdown in U.S. history.

What a fascinating experience I just had reporting for you in Minneapolis on Operation Metro Surge,

the largest crackdown on illegal immigration in U.S. history and probably the most controversial.

My crew and I got to go along with ICE agents as they fanned out into community neighborhoods

looking for illegal immigrant criminals.

People who entered the U.S. illegally have been arrested for additional crimes in Minnesota,

but leading up to this operation, they were being released into their communities instead of the

counties alerting ICE who would have deported them. And that's pretty much where the debate lies.

ICE insists it's much safer when communities cooperate and notify them of arrests of arrests of

illegal immigrants without turning the alleged criminals back into the community.

They say that because Minnesota wasn't doing this, the counties were not cooperating,

that ICE agents were forced to hunt down dangerous criminals in a way that they said put agents

at risk, as well as protesters in the community, which drew agitators and

demonstrators who can be seen on video often becoming violent, attacking and assaulting ICE

agents. The agents arguing the local police were frequently doing little to nothing to keep the

situation under control so that inflamed things as well.

And you probably know there were two shooting deaths as a result of all of this.

Not long after that came an end to Metro Surge.

In a moment, we'll talk about the number of arrests they made,

and then interestingly extrapolate how many crimes may have been

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