Overview
- Roughly 3,000 federal immigration agents remain deployed in the Twin Cities, with recurring clashes, detentions, and use of tear gas documented outside federal facilities and on city streets.
- A second shooting on January 14 left Venezuelan national Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis wounded during an arrest that DHS says followed an assault on an officer with a shovel and a broom handle.
- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged peaceful demonstrations and pressed for ICE to leave the city, rejecting any escalation involving active-duty troops.
- Border czar Tom Homan said the administration will create a database to publicize people arrested for interfering with ICE operations, stating it intends to “make them famous.”
- Polling shows broad skepticism of the federal response, with majorities saying the Good shooting was not justified and opposing deployment of additional forces to Minnesota.