A St. Paul resident says federal agents knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

And on Sunday, in St. Paul’s Frogtown, video showed federal agents leaving a front yard of a home. A post on Reddit titled it as Border Patrol Chief “Greg Bovino has officially kicked off door to door raids.”

ICE and Border Patrol spokespeople did not respond to a request for information Monday about whether are they going door to door.

Vice President JD Vance noted on Fox News on Wednesday: “I think we’re going to see those deportation numbers ramp up as we get more and more people online working for ICE, going door-to-door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country and if you want to come back, apply for the proper channels.”

On Wednesday, an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good, 37, in her vehicle in Minneapolis, which has drawn continued protests.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement. More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, according to Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

Videos shared on social media, along with photographs, show the prevalence of federal agents in the Twin Cities and St. Paul recently.

Man detained at Snelling Avenue gas station

Bovino was present Sunday when a man was taken into custody from a vehicle stopped at a gas station on St. Paul’s Snelling Avenue at Portland Avenue.

A Getty Images photographer at the scene reported that federal agents smashed the man’s car window before dragging him out when he didn’t present citizenship documentation. Video from Ford Fischer with News2Share showed agents roughly handcuffing the man with his face on the pavement, and carrying him away as people in the area yelled, honked and blew whistles.

U.S. Border Patrol agents take an activist into custody following an altercation at a gas station on Jan. 11, 2026 in St. Paul. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Information about the man and his condition wasn’t made available Monday.

“As the federal occupation of Minnesota intensifies, we have seen and heard of countless incidents of violence being perpetrated by ICE here in Ward Four and in the surrounding neighborhoods, including the attack at Speedway yesterday,” City Council Member Molly Coleman, who represents the area, wrote on social media Monday. “What we saw at Speedway — what we’re seeing across the region — continues to make clear what we’ve long known: ICE has no place in our community.”

An activist was also taken into custody in the gas station’s parking lot. The man’s girlfriend told Fox 9 he was released Sunday night.

Border Patrol chief at Midway Target

U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino walks through a Target store Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Paul. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Also on Sunday, an Associated Press photographer took a photo of Bovino in the Target in St. Paul’s Midway on University Avenue. Video from Fischer showed Bovino leaving the restroom area in the front of the store and walking out as people cursed at him to leave.

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego posted on X (formerly Twitter), “What US citizen wants to go shopping on a Sunday and see armed masked men walking around? Target on a Sunday morning is not a war zone. Treating it like it is creates the tension you see here.”

Bovino responded on X: “Calm down there, pardner. Went in to use the restroom like any member of the public or law enforcement. In talking with Minneapolis residents and legal immigrants at Target, and a myriad of other locations, they say the opposite of you. Don’t be tone deaf.”

North End resident describes ICE asking about Asian neighbors

City Council Member HwaJeong Kim, who is a volunteer with the Immigrant Defense Network, said she talked to the North End resident in her ward who posted on social media last Wednesday about ICE agents coming to her door and asking about Asian neighbors.

The resident wrote the officer who knocked didn’t display his badge and a second had a badge but was standing back and she had difficulty reading it. She said she was shown a picture of a person and asked if she knew the person or their whereabouts.

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“ICE agents said they needed to know for safety reasons,” she wrote, adding that she was then asked to identify Hmong and Asian households. She wrote that she did not point out her neighbors’ houses and they left.

Kim said she’s hearing from neighborhood networks about people being taken into custody.

“They took someone walking on the sidewalk this morning in my ward before 9:30 this morning,” Kim said Monday. “… Rolled up, took them, gone. … We already knew that they were doing it, and now they’re just not even hiding. … If you are Black, if you’re Brown, if you are Asian, Latina, even Indigenous, if you are just not white, at this point, you are a target.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.