“Operation Metro Surge” — the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota last winter — left two citizens dead, more than 4,000 people arrested and communities roiled with protests. The city’s education system, one teacher said, became “hunting grounds” which saw agents “follow brown children home.”
The resulting climate of fear from the three-month operation disrupted the critical window when students prepare for state standardized tests, educators said. The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments measure academic proficiency across grades 3 through 8 and high school.
