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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signaled that hundreds more federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis, where the fatal shooting of a woman has inflamed strife around President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow,” Noem said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures when asked about the government’s response. “They’ll arrive — there’ll be hundreds more, in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.”
Protests erupted in Minneapolis after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renée Nicole Good during a tense confrontation on Jan. 7. Thousands marched to the shooting site on Saturday.
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Noem renewed warnings by senior administration officials that people who try to hamper federal law enforcement risk arrest and criminal prosecution.
“If they impede our operations, that’s a crime and we will hold them accountable to those consequences,” she said.
Good’s fatal shooting has sparked a bitter national debate over whether the officer was justified in using deadly force...
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