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Border czar Tom Homan says 700 ICE and CBP officers will depart the Minneapolis area after weeks of violence and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, marking a substantial pullback of DHS presence in Minnesota with the move taking effect immediately.
At a Minneapolis town hall, Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown liquid by a syringe-wielding man; security intervened and the attacker was taken away as police investigate.
Tech leaders faced renewed tension with Trump after a Minneapolis shooting, with Tim Cook and Andy Jassy pictured at a White House event with Trump while others in Silicon Valley criticized his immigration policy, highlighting growing frustration among tech executives.
Minneapolis confronts fresh protests after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, in the city—the third fatal shooting involving federal agents there—intensifying scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown amid competing state and federal accounts.
An independent autopsy commissioned by Renée Good’s family found she sustained gunshot wounds to her left arm, right breast and head during an encounter with an ICE officer in Minneapolis, adding new detail to the case surrounding her death.
The Washington Post documents a single day of ICE’s Metro Surge in Minneapolis—the seventh Friday of the operation, the largest immigration enforcement effort in a U.S. city—showing activists scanning for masked federal agents, a deportation case, a child-care worker chasing officers, and a 22-year-old asylum seeker starting a new job, as the crackdown reshapes daily life for many in the Twin Cities; the operation has led to about 3,000 arrests since it began and thousands more affected.
The Justice Department has expanded its criminal investigation to Minnesota’s top Democratic officials, Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, at a time when protests and clashes with federal agents are unfolding in icy city streets.
Tribal leaders say Indigenous people in Minneapolis have been stopped, questioned, harassed, and in some cases detained by federal immigration officers solely because of their skin color or names, raising concerns about racial profiling by ICE.