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Noem announces the arrest of over 10,000 illegal migrants in Minneapolis


WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks to reporters after participating in a TV interview outside of the White House on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Earlier this morning on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a warning that he may enact the Insurrection Act in response to rising tensions between protesters and federal agents in Minneapolis. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday that over 10,000 illegal migrants have been arrested in the Minneapolis area.

“PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” Noem wrote on the social media platform, X. “We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.”

She said that 3,000 of the illegal migrants arrested are murderers, rapists and pedophiles.

Noem added that massive fraud in Minnesota is also being investigated.

“There is MASSIVE Fraud in Minneapolis, at least $19 billion and that’s just the tip of iceberg,” her post concluded. “Our Homeland Security Investigators are on the ground in Minneapolis conducting wide scale investigations to get justice for the American people who have been robbed blind.”

Noem announced last week that more ICE agents would be sent to Minneapolis for more immigration crackdown.

Protests have ramped up across the state due to the amount of ICE agents coming in.

Minnesota was also in the news after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video of himself going to multiple daycare centers that looked vacant.

He alleged that millions of taxpayer dollars were funding these daycare centers, meaning there was fraud.