Schumer has demanded that Republicans separate the DHS funding bill from five other spending bills for many other agencies and said Democrats would vote for those bills to keep the government open. They want to negotiate sweeping changes to how ICE operates in exchange for passing the DHS funding measure, including an outside investigation into the killing of protester Alex Pretti, improved training for dealing with protestors and bystanders. and forcing agents to stop wearing masks to obscure their identity.
After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.
Mr. Secretary, do you think that there's any responsibility among the ICE officers, though, to be able to deal with these things in a way that does not end in tragic death? Sorkin began. I mean, I do think that, you know, you blamed Tim Walz, you blamed Biden, you blamed lots of people that have not shot people! You go back and look at what's happened in Minnesota over the years Hold on a second, Duffy interrupted.
Amid rising tensions in Minnesota over federal agents shooting and killing protesters, US President Donald Trump said senior White House official Tom Homan will visit the northeastern state. "I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me," the president wrote in an online post.
A 51-year-old man has been shot dead by federal officers in the US city of Minneapolis, US media reported on Saturday. The shooting was first made public by Minnesota state Governor Tim Walz before the death was reported. The reports of the shooting come amid ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE's) anti-migrant operations, carried out at the behest of the Trump administration. Those protests were in large part spurred on by the fatal shooting of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent on January 7.
amNewYork was denied access to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's Lower Manhattan press conference on Thursday, following months of detailed coverage of ICE in the Big Apple, as even Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was met with police for protesting the snub.
The left branded the ICE agent a "rogue officer" who executed a U.S. citizen during a federal immigration crackdown that never should have happened in the first place. The right labeled the slain driver as a "domestic terrorist" and framed the shooting as a clear-cut case of self-defense amid an assault on law enforcement. The same video footage, watched by millions of Americans, fueled both narratives.
The big picture: Homeland Security officials started broadcasting a plan to target sanctuary jurisdictions from the start of President Trump's second term. This has put local leaders - because of the law, past litigation and public sentiment - directly at odds with Trump's mass deportation campaign. Driving the news: Homeland Security officials are getting a cold shoulder from local leaders as they decamp to New Orleans for "Operation Catahoula Crunch."