ICE director to face D.C. grilling over Minnesota surge

ICE Director Todd Lyons will testify Tuesday at a 9 a.m. CT U.S. House Homeland Security Committee oversight hearing alongside CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow, with the Minnesota‑centered ICE surge squarely on the agenda. The panel is chaired by Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, who says he wants answers on officer training and claims he hopes the session will "calm down the rhetoric" even as Twin Cities footage shows agents battering down doors, shooting residents, and dragging people from cars and bus stops. Lyons will also face hostile questioning from Democrats such as Rep. Shri Thanedar, who has a bill to abolish ICE, and Rep. LaMonica McIver, herself charged with impeding federal officers during a detention‑center incident, underscoring just how polarized this circus will be. For Minneapolis–St. Paul, this is the first time the top ICE brass will be on the record in a formal hearing since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the wave of habeas petitions, and federal judges’ orders freeing detainees and rebuking ICE tactics here. Expect members to wave around the same cooked-up "worst of the worst" numbers local reporting has already gutted, even as Minnesota officials and residents keep pushing for hard answers on how many of these raids are actually legal and how many are political theater.