The Department of Homeland Security’s Minnesota-focused enforcement campaign has been underway for several weeks, and the agency says it’s resulted in more than 400 arrests so far. The Minnesota effort,

NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they attempted to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

ICE operations have begun in Minnesota with 100 federal agents converging on the twin cities with their presence, prompting backlash, protests and threats. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez shares a look at the new arrests across Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

Protesters held a noise demonstration outside Homewood Suites by Hilton in Edina on Thursday, one of several local hotels where federal immigration agents are staying.

Several Twin Cities communities have released statements to put residents at ease as federal agents are in the metro actively conducting federal immigration operations.

Information shared by ICE late Thursday contradicts the story being told by a Minnesota woman detained by federal law enforcement earlier this week in Minneapolis.

Democratic Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who survived a political assassination attempt this summer inside his Brooklyn Park home, took to social media to decry an ICE raid at his neighborhood coffee shop on Friday.

The Minnesota Attorney General shared a legal opinion that clarified which local authorities can enter into 287(g) agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.