City leaders from Minneapolis and St. Paul are holding a news conference Tuesday afternoon to respond to reports that the Trump administration is planning an operation targeting Somali immigrants.

According to reporting from the New York Times, the Trump administration is “launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, according to an official with knowledge of the operation and documents obtained by The New York Times.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and police Chief Brian O’Hara, along with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, are set to speak at 1 p.m.

Earlier Tuesday at an unrelated news conference in Minneapolis, Gov. Tim Walz said that “my expectation is today we will probably see a

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