Metro Surge by the Numbers

Minnesota 50501 recently gave us Operation Metro Surge by the numbers. As they put it:

Overall, not a very effective operation and these dummies suck at their jobs.

 

So just using DHS's own numbers, that's 1.25 people detained per agent on the streets — for 2.5 months. And that's even if you believe those detention numbers: how many of those are people who were released within hours, for instance? How many were not detained by a DHS agent, but were actually a convicted person turned over by a Minnesota corrections officials?

Note that Saint Paul has also estimated the economic loss to its residents and businesses ($247 million), and it's higher than the $203 million Minneapolis loss because Saint Paul has more immigrants than Minneapolis does.