The Department of Homeland Security has described what is unfolding in Minneapolis as the largest operation in the agency’s history. About three thousand agents are now estimated to be in the area. They outnumber the city’s police officers by five to one. In a lawsuit filed against the Trump Administration, Minnesota officials describe a city overtaken by roving packs of ICE agents who approach “random people,” largely, it seems, “based on race and ethnicity.” D.H.S. has said that these actions target criminals, and that, if law enforcement and local officials collaborated with ICE, “the violent riots wouldn’t exist.” In response to protests, and to the “corrupt politicians” who support them, President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. Immigrants in the area, including the mayor of St. Paul, are now carrying their passports whenever they leave their homes. According to Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in a six-week span, agents have arrested three thousand people. There are reports that troops from Alaska’s 11th Airborne Division, who have been trained for cold-weather operations, are on standby to descend on Minneapolis. Protesters roam the streets, warning immigrants of ICE’s presence. They have been met with tear gas and rubber bullets. Agents have been recorded saying things like “This is your warning,” and “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?,” and, in the case of the agent who shot Good, “Fucking bitch.”