Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed she will only send more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Minnesota in response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.
Roughly 2,000 ICE officers arrived in Minneapolis last week, on top of ICE officers who had already been in the city for a month before. Noem explained on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures that the new deployment will be to protect the officers already there and ensure immigration operations continue unimpeded.
“We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow. 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,” Noem said.
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Noem’s announcement comes after Good was killed by an ICE officer after allegedly “weaponizing” her vehicle and driving into the officer. In new footage released by DHS on Sunday, she is seen blocking federal vehicles and traffic where ICE was operating before officers approached her.
The officer who shot Good was also “dragged” in a vehicle ramming months before, according to Noem. This comes as the Department of Homeland Security reported assaults against ICE officers surged by 1,153% in 11 months, as well as the number of death threats made against ICE officers increasing by 8,000%.
