Government Accountability

Inside Trump’s Minnesota Immigration Crackdown: Surveillance Overreach Threatens American Liberty

By National Security Desk | January 30, 2026

Under the guise of national security, the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration raids in Minnesota reveal a dangerous expansion of government surveillance that risks violating civil liberties and American freedoms.

On a cold Minneapolis morning, Luis Martinez’s routine drive to work was abruptly halted by masked federal agents wielding technology straight out of a surveillance state playbook. Cornered and questioned aggressively about his citizenship, Martinez faced an invasive facial scan—his biometric data captured without consent—before being released only after producing his U.S. passport. Is Expanding Government Surveillance Worth Sacrificing Our Freedoms? This unsettling encounter encapsulates the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota—a campaign portrayed as targeting serious criminals yet increasingly reliant on expansive biometric surveillance tools and sprawling data networks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now operates with...

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