What Happened
On the morning of Jan. 12, 2026, Christina Rank, 25, a paraprofessional who had worked for seven years with students with disabilities at the Concord Education Center in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, saw ICE agents parked in the school’s lot as part of Operation Metro Surge, a federal immigration enforcement push underway in the Twin Cities. She approached and asked if they were ICE. When the agents left, she followed behind them in her car; as they turned back into the lot, her car and an ICE vehicle collided. Agents pulled her from her car and arrested her.
Rank was held for about 12 hours at the ICE facility at Fort Snelling before being released; her mother said she wasn’t allowed to see or speak with her during that time. She was later formally charged with a felony for assaulting or impeding a federal officer — one of 16 people arrested on similar charges during Operation Metro Surge, according to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi.
