If you don’t want broth, take two cups. It is the strategy that the Donald Trump Administration has chosen to respond to the after an agent of the immigration control service (), in the city of Minneapolis. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristy Noem, announced this Sunday that she will send “hundreds” more agents to reinforce the deployment of that body in the State governed by a Democrat.
The new agents sent by the Department of Homeland Security will be deployed between this Sunday and Monday with the mission of protecting ICE and Border Patrol personnel who are already in Minnesota, according to Noem in an interview with the program. Sunday Morning Futures from the Fox News television network.
In what it has described as , the Trump Administration maintains nearly 2,000 immigration agents deployed in the State. The president wants to show a strong hand in the territory governed by Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the November 2024 elections, and where a fraud scandal has broken out for which the Republican blames all members of the state’s large Somali community, which he insults as “garbage.”
At the time of his death last Wednesday, Good was participating in one of the many neighborhood patrols that document and record ICE activities, according to family members and local activists. The activist was behind the wheel of her vehicle, which had partially blocked a residential street in Minneapolis. As she put the car in motion, an officer, identified by US media as Jonathan Ross, shot her three times, claiming he did so in self-defense because Good was driving the car at him.
It is an argument that the entire Administration has joined, starting with Trump himself and the vice president, JD Vance. But Minnesota authorities, including Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, argue that videos recorded by pedestrians show that the woman, who had been ordered out of the vehicle by another ICE officer, was turning away from the agent and leaving the scene at the time Ross opened fire at nearly point-blank range.
On Friday, Minnesota authorities announced they would open their own investigation into the incident, after state police complained that the FBI, the federal police force, was refusing to cooperate with them. In statements to the program Fox News Sundaythe White House head of border security, Tom Homan, assured that he will wait for the investigation to conclude, but that he “sincerely believes that the agent took that step because he thought his life was in danger.”
Thousands of people participated in a march in Minneapolis on Saturday to protest the death of Good on Wednesday and the shooting of two people by another ICE agent on Friday in Portland, Oregon. The protest was one of nearly a thousand called across the country over the weekend as a reaction against these actions and, in general, the deployments of immigration agents that Trump has ordered in several cities governed by Democrats.
