MN Flag Sales Soaring During ICE Surge

(Learfield News/Undated) — Minnesota flag sales are surging amid ICE’s Operation Metro Surge.

Some residents are buying flags to show state pride and to signal their opposition to the influx of federal immigration officers.

Lee Harold, owner of Herold Flags in Rochester, says Minnesota flag sales have jumped 75 percent since the operation began.

The owner of Alamo Flags reports they’ve sold out of all handheld Minnesota flags and had to rush in a new order from distributors on Monday.

Activists critical of the unprecedented enforcement sweep say they want the thousands of ICE agents involved to leave Minnesota.