Months After Operation Metro Surge, Federal Agents Return To Minneapolis To Target Daycares For Suspected Fraud

CBS Minnesota

April 28, 2026 / 7:45 AM CDT

Teams of federal agents once again swarmed sections of Minneapolis early Tuesday morning, multiple officials confirmed to CBS News, exercising search warrants at several childcare centers for suspected fraud.

No one was arrested in the raids — a stark contrast from last winter's immigration crackdown during Operation Metro Surge — but the sweeping law enforcement activity did appear to signal a refocused effort on the part of federal authorities to investigate the billion-dollar COVID-era fraud schemes in Minnesota that had once drawn the Trump administration's attention and ire.

"Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation," a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

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