Overview
- Thousands marched and many students walked out as organizers staged a one-day general strike across dozens of cities, with some businesses closing from Los Angeles and New York to Minneapolis and Baltimore.
- The protests followed the fatal shootings of U.S. residents Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, and the Justice Department announced a civil-rights investigation into Pretti’s killing as two Border Patrol agents were placed on leave.
- Operation Metro Surge has deployed roughly 3,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities, while border czar Tom Homan signaled a shift to more targeted actions even as President Trump said the effort was not pulling back.
- In Washington, the Senate advanced a funding plan that extends most government operations through September but funds the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks to allow negotiations over potential ICE reforms.
- Concerns about immigration enforcement at the upcoming Super Bowl grew after an earlier podcast remark by a DHS adviser, while DHS declined to say whether ICE would be inside Levi’s Stadium and local officials reported no knowledge of any such plans.