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ICE published the names and alleged convictions/charges of specific individuals arrested in Minneapolis.
The claim is that ICE, via a DHS news release, named specific individuals arrested in Minneapolis “yesterday” and listed their convictions or charges. The relevant document is a DHS press release dated January 8, 2026, describing arrests said to have occurred in Minneapolis the prior day.
The DHS release, titled “DHS Highlights Worst of Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens Including Rapists, Pedophiles, and Drug Traffickers Arrested Yesterday in Minneapolis,” states that ICE announced arrests in Minneapolis and that officers arrested “criminal illegal aliens including rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers.” It then introduces a section with the line, “Among the worst of the worst arrested yesterday in Minneapolis include:”
In that section, DHS/ICE lists individuals by full name and country of origin, each paired with a description of prior convictions or, in some cases, both convictions and current charges. Examples include “Jose Alejandro Alvarado, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador convicted of sexual assault on a child” and “Said Abdulahi Elmi, a criminal illegal alien from Somalia… and charged with 20 other crimes,” clearly tying named individuals to specific criminal histories or charges.
A republication of the same content on EIN Presswire on January 9, 2026, attributes the text directly to the Department of Homeland Security and reproduces the identical list of named individuals and their associated convictions or charges. This confirms that naming these individuals and detailing their alleged offenses was part of DHS/ICE’s official public communication about the Minneapolis arrests.
Publicly available sources do not, by themselves, verify the factual accuracy of every listed conviction or charge, which would require checking underlying court records. However, the claim being assessed is narrower: whether ICE, in its public statement, named specific individuals arrested in Minneapolis and listed their convictions or charges. The evidence shows that this is exactly what the January 8, 2026 release did.
The communication also serves clear institutional incentives: it links federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis to a curated set of serious offenses, bolstering DHS/ICE’s portrayal of Operation Metro Surge as targeting the “worst of the worst” while criticizing state and local officials. As a matter of whether the described communication action occurred, the evidence is direct and uncontradicted.
On that basis, the claim that ICE named specific individuals arrested in Minneapolis “yesterday” and listed their convictions or charges is fulfilled and can be considered complete.