( January 20, 2026, 2:21 PM EST) -- MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal government parties accused in a putative class complaint of violating the constitutional rights of protesters and observers in Minnesota filed a notice of appeal on Jan. 19, three days after a federal judge in that state ruled that federal agents conducting immigration enforcement activities as part of “Operation Metro Surge” and responding to protests opposing the operation may not arrest or detain peaceful protesters, use pepper spray or other nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against peaceful protesters and may not stop or detain “drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with” those federal agents....