Bill > SR0021

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resolution relating to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Operation Metro Surge. Whereas, on January 5, 2026, approximately 3,000 federal agents, from both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), were deployed to Minnesota’s Twin Cities area as part of Operation Metro Surge, an ICE initiative to intensify the arrest and deportation of individuals not legally residing in the United States, and Whereas, on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a U.S. citizen, while she was in her car at a location where ICE agents were engaged in Operation Metro Surge, and Whereas, on January 24, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CBP agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, also a U.S. citizen, at another location where Operation Metro Surge activity was occurring, and Whereas, these and multiple other events pertaining to the methods of enforcing immigration law have triggered large protests both in and out of the State of Minnesota, as well as in Vermont, and Whereas, as Caledonian Record publisher, Todd Smith, perceptively wrote, “A government that kills, then lies, and then threatens its citizens is not protecting the nation. It is undermining the foundations that make it worth protecting in the first place. And if those who claim to be the law are permitted to kill without consequence, then the law no longer governs them — and soon, it will no longer protect anyone,” and Whereas, the current situation is intolerable and must be changed immediately, now therefore be it

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Nader Hashim (D)*,  Phil Baruth (D),  Scott Beck (R),  Randy Brock (R),  Thomas Chittenden (D),  Alison Clarkson (D),  Ann Cummings (D),  Martine Gulick (D),  Ruth Hardy (D),  Wendy Harrison (D),  Ginny Lyons (D),  Andrew Perchlik (D),  Robert Plunkett (D),  Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D),  Tanya Vyhovsky (D),  Anne Watson (D),  Dave Weeks (R),  Richard Westman (R),  Becca White (D), 

As adopted by Senate (on 02/06/2026)

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