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President Donald Trump said Minnesota is facing a "DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION" as protests rock the state in the aftermath of the shooting death of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis during the agency's operations in the city.
Surging federal immigration agents into cities has been a key tactic of the second Trump administration's flagship mass deportation policy to reverse what it says are years of unchecked and unlawful entry into the U.S., threatening public safety and national security.
It has led to clashes between officers and activists, as seen in Minneapolis with the death of Renee Good last week, and Democratic politicians have sought to disrupt Trump's crackdown by preventing state and local cooperation with federal agents, whom they say are entering their communities uninvited and spreading fear among peaceful migrants with their heavy-handed approach.
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Good was fatally shot in her car on Wednesday, an incident that has sparked protests in the city and debate over the circumstances surrounding her death. Trump administration officials have claimed that the ICE agent involved acted in self-defense with Good's vehicle accelerating toward him, while local officials maintain Good posed no threat.
"Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which [there] are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
"All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA [through] Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy."
He added: "FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!"
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced on Monday a joint lawsuit with St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, all Democrats, to "end the unlawful and unprecedented surge of ICE agents in Minnesota," he said in a post on X. "People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. It has to stop."
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat who has clashed with Trump and Republicans over a fraud scandal engulfing his state, called the ICE surge "unconstitutional," backing Ellison's lawsuit.
"Over the last week, we’ve seen federal agents arresting, threatening, and using force against innocent bystanders," Walz said in a post on X. "They have carried out enforcement actions in schools, at hospitals, and in one horrific instance shot and killed someone.
"This operation was never about safety, it’s a targeted political operation and Minnesota won’t stand for it."
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