ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers [View all]

Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, sometimes with warrants and sometimes without, and they are frequently present during patient care.

Their presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs.

“A part of me wants to go on the news with my face and scream this at the top of my lungs,” an HCMC nurse said. “But I am very much right in the middle of this.”

Community organizers from Unidos MN, an immigrant advocacy nonprofit, told reporters last week that federal immigration officers were present inside the hospital without a judicial warrant. The officers were reportedly at the bedside of a patient receiving medical care for over 24 hours.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/14/ice-agents-at-twin-cities-hospitals-alarm-medical-staff