Our support Center of the American Experiment remains unapologetically supportive of Operation Metro Surge. The mission of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) effort has been to locate, apprehend, and deport...
A Minnesota student earned a college degree in high school, spotlighting the power of PSEO
Maxwell Fjeld’s story, shared in The Hechinger Report, illustrates the transformative potential of Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program. By completing his associate degree while still in high school, Fjeld not only saved time and money...
Media and politicians can’t resist false narrative of 5-year-old ICE arrest
A photo of a five-year-old boy sits at the summit of the mountain of lies told by local politicians and the Minnesota media about the actions of ICE during Operation Metro Surge. Despite Homeland Security aggressively debunking the claim that ICE detained a...
Judicial insurrection?
Another judge’s ruling in Minnesota has made national headlines. From Bill Melugin of Fox News: NEW: Multiple sources tell me & colleague @davidspunt that the federal magistrate in Minnesota who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is...
Removed
We’ve been following the case of Jeffrey Lopez-Suazo, accused of ramming an ICE vehicle back on November 25. Lopez was charged (criminally) in federal court with assaulting a federal officer and illegal immigration. Lopez, age 26 of Honduras, has been...
Crazy local government spending is increasing property taxes and hurting affordability
Property taxes are rising across Minnesota: Why? Federal policy plays a role. So, too, does state government policy, particularly in the form of unfunded mandates. But local governments themselves must shoulder some of the blame in too many cases. Too often,...
‘A family’s worst nightmare’
The abduction The abduction of a seven-year-old girl in Zimmerman yesterday afternoon began what the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s Superintendent Drew Evans described as “a family’s worst nightmare.” It ended in the best possible way about nine hours later...
Habeas Corpus floods the zone
In classic Saul Alinsky/Cloward-Piven-style, immigration lawyers have overwhelmed the local federal district court with habeas corpus filings to bring normal court business to a halt. Habeas corpus (lit. produce the body) filings demand emergency relief to have...
Competing “pressers” illustrate a dangerous lack of coordination between local and federal law enforcement leaders in Operation Metro Surge
Yesterday morning a group of local law enforcement leaders gathered at the State Capitol for a press conference drawing attention to their concern that a small number of federal agents may be racially profiling as part of the immigration enforcement detail...
When teachers’ unions turn schools into political stages
Classrooms should be places where students are not pressured or guided to support one side of current political disputes, but teachers’ unions have long struggled to maintain clear discipline in upholding this standard. A recent email circulated by the Wayzata...










