Overview
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the additional officers will arrive Sunday and Monday to secure ongoing ICE and Border Patrol operations in the Twin Cities.
- The deployment builds on an existing force of more than 2,000 federal agents under Operation Metro Surge, which DHS calls its largest immigration operation to date.
- The FBI is leading the federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, while Minnesota has opened a separate criminal probe and says federal officials have limited state access to evidence.
- Federal leaders defend the ICE agent’s actions as self-defense and have described Good’s conduct as domestic terrorism, but local officials point to videos and witness accounts that dispute that narrative, and none of the available footage shows the shooting itself.
- Protests continued locally and nationwide, with arrests reported in Minneapolis, confrontations outside ICE facilities, and new detentions recorded in the Twin Cities as lawmakers complained of restricted access to federal sites.