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March 6, 2026

EAGAN, MN – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (MN-02) and Ilhan Omar (MN-05) demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following their oversight visit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. Shortly before their scheduled visit last month, all detainees were transported out of the facility, leaving the Congresswomen unable to speak to detainees and offer privacy release forms. Reps.


March 5, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on President Trump’s announcement that he will be replacing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Senator Markwayne Mullin.


February 24, 2026
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) had an interesting way of expressing how little she’s looking forward to Donald Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, which is scheduled for tonight.

February 24, 2026
Rep. Angie Craig will bring the son of a Minnesota woman as her guest to the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

February 23, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Angie Craig announced Angel Silva as her guest for tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Silva, a U.S. citizen and a resident of Rosemount, is the son of Concepcion Macias-Pulido, a Minnesotan who self-deported after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in December. 


February 20, 2026
Two Minnesota Congress members went to the Whipple Federal Building on Friday in Minneapolis for an oversight review of its detention facilities, but ICE detainees were nowhere to be found, they said.

February 20, 2026
During a tour of the Whipple Federal Building on Friday, Feb. 20, U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig met with ICE St. Paul Field Office Director Sam Olson to learn more about the continued scope of Operation Metro Surge.

February 20, 2026

Minnesota Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig are detailing their visit to the Whipple Building Friday afternoon which has served as the headquarters and detention center for ICE during Operation Metro Surge.

Omar and Craig say the facility was clean - and suddenly empty - when they showed up around 12:00 p.m.


February 18, 2026

Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig (D) spoke out after a memorial dedicated to Renee Good was set ablaze Tuesday evening. 

“Renee’s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her,” Craig wrote on the social platform X on Wednesday. “This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.”


February 16, 2026
House Ag Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig is criticizing the Republican majority’s newly released farm bill text, saying it does not adequately address the economic pressures facing farmers and working families.