In December 2025, federal immigration authorities began Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. The operation later expanded significantly, with the United States Department of Homeland Security announcing plans to deploy roughly 2,000 federal agents and officers across the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area (AP News, 2026). Federal officials presented the operation as an effort to enforce immigration law and investigate allegations of fraud. As enforcement intensified across the Twin C

At the U.S.-Mexico border, politics exert significant influence over migrant families. In the ongoing debate over immigration policies, opinions often overshadow the lives of migrants entirely. However, through the perspective of a humanitarian working at the Kino Border Initiative — an institution that provides direct aid to migrants and their families — we are reminded that compassion should not be viewed as a partisan value, but a human one. For years, the United States ha