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New York Times [1/11/2026 2:37 PM, Minho Kim, 135475K] reports the Trump administration will send “hundreds more” federal agents to Minneapolis “today and tomorrow” to support the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Sunday, days after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman there. Ms. Noem cited a major welfare fraud scandal linked to Minnesota’s Somali community as the reason for dispatching more agents to the liberal city. A vast majority of those charged since 2022 with stealing federal dollars from a pandemic-era program for feeding children and other programs were U.S. citizens by birth or naturalization. Still, Ms. Noem characterized the federal deployment as a mission “to uncover the true corruption and theft that has happened” during an interview on the Fox News program “Sunday Morning Futures.” She called Minneapolis “the ground zero for stealing of taxpayer dollars and protecting criminals,” without citing specific examples. The secretary also took aim at protests against the immigration crackdown, which have grown after the death of Renee Nicole Good, a motorist who was shot and killed during an encounter with federal agents on Wednesday. Ms. Noem said that some nonprofits were being investigated for their funding sources, and claimed that they had trained protesters in impeding law enforcement operations and “weaponizing” vehicles against ICE agents, without offering evidence. Democrats have assailed the Trump administration over the shooting and its efforts to vilify Ms. Good. Senator Tina Smith, Democrat of Minnesota, accused the administration on Sunday of orchestrating a “cover-up” by refusing to work with state agencies. “They are blocking state investigators from participating in any way in this investigation,” she said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that she believed Ms. Noem had rushed to blame Ms. Good. Ms. Noem has accused Ms. Good of having engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism.”

Reuters [1/11/2026 10:44 PM, Matt Tracy, et al., 4109K] reports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is sending "hundreds" more officers to Minnesota, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in remarks that aired on Sunday, after tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration agent. The officers would be deployed to bolster the safety of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officials already in Minnesota, Noem said on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" program. Some 2,000 federal officers have already been dispatched to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in what DHS has called its largest operation ever. The new deployments began even as more than 1,000 rallies took place nationwide on Saturday and Sunday to protest the federal government’s deportation push and Wednesday’s fatal shooting of 37‑year‑old Renee Good by an ICE officer. Video from Chicago, Pittsburgh and other cities showed crowds in the streets on Sunday, though none appeared to be as large as Saturday’s gathering in Minneapolis. Thousands of people marched peacefully in New York City on Sunday, stopping in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue where demonstrators blocked traffic and chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go!" The New York Times reported. Noem and other U.S. officials have maintained that the agent acted in self-defense because Good, a volunteer in a community network that monitors and records ICE operations in Minneapolis, drove forward in the direction of the agent who then shot her, after another agent had approached the driver’s side and told her to get out of the car. In a separate Sunday appearance on CNN’s "State of the Union," Noem said other video footage showed Good protesting ICE agents at other locations earlier on Wednesday morning, but did not say if or when it would be publicly released. FOX News [1/11/2026 2:24 PM, Ashley Carnahan, 40621K] reports Noem told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo that DHS will be sending hundreds more agents on Sunday and Monday to Minneapolis to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents to do their work "safely.". "If they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that’s a crime, and we will hold them accountable to those consequences," she said, referring to clashes between some protesters and federal agents outside an ICE facility and the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building over the weekend. The protests, which have spread to other cities, including Los Angeles, Portland and New York, come after an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who DHS alleges "weaponized her vehicle" and "attempted to run a law enforcement officer over.". Video of the shooting has become a political flashpoint, with some saying it supports the government’s position that the agent acted in self-defense and others saying the footage calls into question DHS’ explanation and raises broader concerns about the use of force by ICE officers. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Thursday that since Operation Metro Surge began, DHS law enforcement has arrested more than 1,500 individuals, including alleged murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and gang members across Minnesota. "Every single day our law enforcement officers put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American communities," McLaughlin said. "We will not let rioters slow us down from making Minnesota safe again—something Governor Walz and Mayor Frey REFUSED to do.". The Washington Post [1/11/2026 6:04 PM, Mariana Alfaro, 24149K] reports the Department of Homeland Security said last week that the crackdown in Minnesota would involve 2,000 federal agents and officers, calling it the agency’s largest immigration enforcement operation ever. Protests have continued throughout the weekend. Demonstrators gathered across the country to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the killing of Renée Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. Trump officials remained adamant Sunday that Good was responsible for her own death, while Democrats insisted that an investigation including local law enforcement must be completed before drawing conclusions. Tensions over the facts of the incident grew as the FBI, which has taken over the investigation, continued to block Minnesota officials from participating in the inquiry, forcing the local authorities to conduct their own review. Speaking to CNN’s “State of the Union,” Noem said that Good was to blame for the shooting, even though an official investigation into the shooting has not been completed and as video evidence raised several questions about the administration’s assessment of what happened. About two hours after the shooting on Wednesday, Noem released a statement asserting that Good committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” and she accused Good of weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” Across interviews on Sunday, Noem repeated her accusations that Good used her Honda Pilot to attack the officer, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that “everything that I said has been proven to be factual.” When pressed by Tapper about video evidence showing that the ICE officer was able to move out of the vehicle’s way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the car as it veered past him, Noem said Good was “breaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.” Noem also mentioned that there is video — which Tapper said he had not yet seen — that shows “that this officer was hit by her vehicle.” “These officers were doing their due diligence that their training had prepared them to do,” Noem said, insisting that she is correct in labeling Good a “domestic terrorist” because she “weaponized her vehicle to conduct an act of violence against a law enforcement officer and the public.”

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CNN [1/12/2026 12:30 AM, Danya Gainor, 18595K] reports hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead. Videos of the incident are still emerging, and there’s more to be learned, but the surge is the latest development in the monthslong spat between the Democratic-led city and the federal government after President Donald Trump first ramped up operations against Somali Minnesotans in December. Officials in the North Star State have continued to echo each other’s calls for immigration officials to cooperate with local law enforcement and leave – which has prompted biting rhetoric in return from federal officials. After a weekend fraught with high-level name calling, new shooting videos surfacing and widespread protests, here’s the latest. On Saturday, DHS posted a new video on X showing the three minutes and 30 seconds that preceded an ICE agent’s gunfire, which struck and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The new video shows Good’s vehicle — a maroon Honda Pilot — partially blocking the street. Several vehicles that stopped behind her appear to belong to federal agents, based on activity observed in other videos. DHS’s post came the day after CNN obtained cellphone video of the interaction captured by the agent who fired at Good, Jonathan Ross. Ross’s video does not show if the SUV made contact with him, as the camera angle jerks up to the sky. An earlier video shot by a bystander shows the SUV may have made contact as it lurches forward, and he moves to the side. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Ross’s video backs up what the agency has said – that the ICE agent acted in self-defense. The shooting itself is not visible, but three gunshots are heard as the phone in his hand jostles further and then is facing the house behind Ross. Conflict between local and federal officials reach new heights.

Axios [1/11/2026 2:42 PM, Staff, 12972K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down Sunday on her defense of the fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting and vowed to send in "hundreds" more agents. But critics accuse the administration of hiding what actually happened to Renee Nicole Good and dictating what Americans should believe. Within hours of the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security and Noem labeled Good’s actions an "act of domestic terrorism" before any investigation. The administration now controls the probe into the shooting after state investigators say they were blocked from case materials and scene evidence. Noem and other officials swiftly defended the officer and claimed videos support their claim the agent acted in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called that a "garbage narrative." While Noem did not identify the shooter, the Minnesota Star Tribune, the N.Y. Times and other outlets identified him as Jonathan Ross. Noem denied Sunday that she rushed to judgment.

Washington Examiner [1/11/2026 6:55 PM, Jenny Goldsberry, 1394K] reports 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.

FOX News [1/11/2026 10:59 AM, Staff, 40621K] Video: HERE reports Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discusses the protests disrupting ICE operations in Minneapolis, the Democrats’ failed leadership in Minnesota and more on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’

The Hill [1/11/2026 11:45 AM, Sarah Fortinsky, 12595K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her response to a fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week, amid concerns that she too quickly characterized the woman’s actions as “domestic terrorism.” In a heated interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the secretary doubled down on her initial assessment that the woman “weaponized” her vehicle in a way that justified the ICE officers using lethal force to defend themselves. “Everything that I’ve said has been proven to be factual and the truth,” Noem said, when asked why she did not wait for an investigation before making her initial comments. “This administration wants to operate in transparency. I have the responsibility as the secretary of Homeland Security to know this information as soon as possible. I had just been in Minneapolis the day before, I had already had conversations with officers on the ground and supervisors and knew the facts and decided that the department and the people of this country deserve to know the truth of the situation, of what had unfolded in Minneapolis,” she continued. Host Jake Tapper asked Noem about remarks Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) made to The Hill about her conclusion that the shooting was in response to a domestic terrorism incident. “It was very unusual to have a senior law enforcement official to draw a conclusion about an event where the scene was still being processed,” Tillis said. “Generally speaking, law enforcement would recognize that a life was lost, that families are changed forever, the shooter’s life will change forever, we’re collecting video, we’re trying to assess the situation.”

NewsMax [1/11/2026 11:21 AM, Sandy Fitzgerald, 4109K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday doubled down on describing Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer last week, as a domestic terrorist, and insisted the agent was acting in self-defense. "What we do know is that this was clearly a law enforcement action where the officer acted on his training and defended himself and his life and his fellow colleagues," Noem said on CNN’s "State of the Union," while also calling the death "a tragedy.” The secretary added that Good "weaponized her vehicle" against a federal officer and said that video released by the Department of Homeland Security supports that. DHS circulated a newly released 3½-minute video that it says shows Good’s vehicle partially blocking a roadway, in footage the agency says demonstrates she had been "stalking law enforcement" and impeding operations before the shooting. The FBI is investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said it was denied access to evidence, a point raised by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who noted that it is common for federal, state and local officials to work in tandem in major use-of-force investigations. Noem said the investigation is being handled through the Justice Department and that federal agencies are following long-standing protocols. She also faulted Minnesota leaders for what she called politicized statements about the shooting and unrest that followed. "If you look at what Gov. [Tim] Walz has said, if you look at what Mayor [Jacob] Frey has said, they’ve extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about this situation," Noem said, adding that such language "inflamed the public.” The secretary faced sharp questioning about why DHS issued a statement two hours after the shooting, with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., saying it was "very unusual" for a senior law enforcement official to reach conclusions while a scene was still being processed. Noem said she reviewed information and video before speaking publicly and framed the rapid release as transparency. "Everything that I’ve said has been proven to be factual and the truth," Noem said, adding, "This administration wants to operate in transparency.” Tapper disputed Noem’s early description of events, but Noem said that Good was already breaking the law by obstructing officers during an enforcement action. "She was yelling at them and impeding a federal law enforcement investigation," Noem said. "They were breaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.” Pressed to define domestic terrorism, Noem said the label applied because Good used her car as a weapon. "She weaponized her vehicle to conduct an act of violence against a law enforcement officer and the public," Noem said. She said DHS believes video shows the officer was struck and that he fired to protect himself, his colleagues and bystanders. Noem also pointed out the broader tensions over immigration enforcement, calling Minneapolis a "sanctuary city" and saying DHS has arrested "dozens and dozens of murderers and rapists" in Minnesota since federal officials surged personnel there.

FOX News [1/11/2026 6:02 PM, Lindsay Kornick, 40621K] Video: HERE reports Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem clashed with CNN anchor Jake Tapper over her comments shortly after a deadly shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota. Speaking to the press after a Minneapolis ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, Noem said in a news conference that Good was partaking in "domestic terrorism" and was attempting to "weaponize her vehicle" to attack ICE officers. Tapper asked Noem about her statements, which he noted were made before an investigation was launched into the incident. "Well, everything that I’ve said has been proven to be factual and the truth," Noem said. "This administration wants to operate in transparency. I have the responsibility as the secretary of Homeland Security to know this information as soon as possible. I had just been in Minneapolis the day before, had already had conversations with officers on the ground and supervisors, and knew the facts and decided that the department and the people of this country deserve to know the truth about the situation of what had unfolded in Minneapolis." "With all due respect, Secretary, the first thing you said was, ‘what happened was our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle,’" Tapper said, summarizing her remarks. "That’s not what happened. We all saw what happened.". "It absolutely is what happened," Noem said. She continued arguing that evidence showed Good had been attempting to block the road and impede federal law enforcement investigations before finally using her car to attack ICE agents. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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CNN [1/11/2026 11:36 AM, Jake Tapper, 18595K] reports Jake Tapper presses Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on the Trump administration’s different response to violence against ICE agents compared to violence against police on January 6.

FOX News [1/11/2026 4:14 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports DHS Secretary Kristi Noem argued with CNN host Jake Tapper over comments she made after a deadly shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday involving an ICE officer. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CNN [1/11/2026 1:40 PM, David Munoz, 18595K] reports Tapper presses Noem’s comments that ICE agent did nothing wrong. CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the actions of an ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and if she believes, based on her assessment of the officer’s actions in the Minnesota case, law enforcement would have been justified in using deadly force against those attacking them on January 6. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CNN [1/11/2026 9:56 AM, Zane Heinlein, 18595K] reports CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to break down the timeline of events before and after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, as well as the Trump administration’s response. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Daily Caller [1/11/2026 2:05 PM, Harold Hutchison, 835K] reports CNN host Jake Tapper played a clip of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot Sunday as he pushed back on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s criticism of media coverage of Wednesday’s shooting in Minneapolis involving federal law enforcement and a woman accused of weaponizing her vehicle. Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent while the agency was executing an operation in Minneapolis, prompting angry reactions from Democrats including Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. After revealing she viewed videos of the deadly incident prior to her Wednesday press conference in which she said the agent’s actions were self defense, Noem criticized to the "State of the Union host" over media coverage of the incident. "I’m wondering if you’re not doing a disservice to the officer by reaching a conclusion before the investigation takes place," Tapper said, prompting Noem to fire back with, "I haven’t heard you say once what a disservice it’s done for Mayor Frey to get up and to tell ICE to get the eff out of his city and [Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to stand up before she had any of the facts and call this officer a murderer.". "I’m interviewing him next. I’m interviewing him— " Tapper said as Noem continued. "Well, call them out, Jake. Spend as much time calling them out. I have provided you with facts and information to back up every single word that we have said in every single part of this investigation, and if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But we’re going to continue to do the right thing to keep the American people safe.". Tapper then responded by playing a clip from the Capitol riot, during which over 100 law enforcement officers were injured, questioning if they would have been justified in using deadly force. Tapper also noted President Donald Trump issued a blanket pardon for the rioters when he returned to office Jan. 20, 2025. A Capitol Police officer shot and killed one of those who stormed the building. "Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are in," Noem noted. "But they know that — when people are putting hands on them, when they are using weapons against them, when they are physically harming them — that they have the authority to arrest those individuals and make sure that they’re facing consequences.".

FOX News [1/11/2026 12:41 PM, Taylor Penley Fox, 40621K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fired back at Democrats on Sunday amid an Illinois lawmaker’s push to impeach her following a deadly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting in Minneapolis last week. "These law enforcement officers are trained to be in situations that are dangerous, and they rely on that training each and every day to make the right decisions," Noem said during "Sunday Morning Futures.". "That’s what I’m so grateful for is that we have professionals that stepped up and took an oath to serve this country. The American people support them in that.". Noem also blasted Democrats for allegedly using the death of Renee Nicole Good — who was fatally shot by an ICE officer after accelerating a vehicle toward him last week — to divide the country and push an agenda she says would undermine freedoms and liberties. "It’s really, really horrific that we have elected officials that are using this as an opportunity to divide, using this to promote an agenda that fundamentally would take away our freedoms and our liberties in this country," she said. Noem added that the Trump administration will continue its work arresting and holding criminals to account. The Washington Times [1/11/2026 11:12 AM, Stephen Dinan, 852K] reports that at Ms. Noem’s appearance at a House hearing in December, several Democrats personally told her to resign. Such calls have increased since the fatal shooting Wednesday of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, followed a day later by the shooting of two people in Oregon by a Border Patrol agent. Hours after the Minneapolis shooting, Rep. Robin Kelly, Illinois Democrat, announced that she would file articles of impeachment accusing Ms. Noem of obstruction of justice, violation of the public trust and self-dealing. Others said they would support such efforts but urged Ms. Noem to resign first. “The killing of Renee Good is not simply the result of one officer’s actions,” said Rep. Bradley Schneider, Illinois Democrat. “As secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem is responsible for setting the standards and oversight that govern ICE operations. She has abjectly failed in that responsibility.”

FOX News [1/11/2026 1:19 PM, Stephen Sorace, 40621K] Video: HERE reports new video footage shared Saturday shows the minutes that lead up to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal agent, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS shared video on its X account that appeared to be three-and-a-half minutes of footage taken by a citizen from inside a nearby home showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and multiple vehicles out in the residential street. A car can be heard honking its horn repeatedly while someone can be heard continually blowing a whistle. At one point, the video pans over to what appears to be Renee Nicole Good’s Honda Pilot that is parked in the middle of the street. "The media continues to fail the American people in their reporting on the events in Minneapolis," DHS claimed in the post. "New evidence shows that the anti-ICE agitator was STALKING and IMPEDING a law enforcement operation over the course of the morning." DHS further criticized the media, writing: "The evidence speaks for itself. The legacy media has lost the trust of the American people." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [1/11/2026 8:54 PM, Rebecca Santana, 19051K] reports federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation. Video of the clash showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area. Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge. But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away. More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.

Washington Times [1/11/2026 10:54 AM, Seth McLaughlin, 852K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that Minnesota’s elected leaders have “lost credibility” and called on them to “turn down their rhetoric” after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. Ms. Noem also defended the administration’s decision to label Renee Nicole Good a domestic terrorist, arguing that she had weaponized her vehicle against the agent in Wednesday’s incident. Ms. Noem also said the Department of Justice is following standard protocol in its investigation of the shooting and suggested the agency has been hesitant to work with local and state officials — including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats — because of their response and their prior reluctance to help the administration carry out its immigration crackdown. “I would say that these locals, if you look at what Governor Walz has said, if you look at what Mayor Brian has said, they’ve extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about the situation on the ground,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It has inflamed the public.” “They’ve encouraged the kind of destruction and violence that we’ve seen in Minneapolis the last several days, and that would encourage them to grow up, give some maturity, act like people who are responsible, who want people to be safe and the right thing be done,” Ms. Noem said. “When you use the kind of language that you use against law enforcement officers, they lose their credibility.” Ms. Noem said the facts are clear. “The vehicle was weaponized and it attacked the law enforcement officer,” she said. “He defended himself and he defended those individuals around him.” “That is an act of domestic terrorism,” the Homeland Security chief added. Mr. Frey scoffed at her take, saying he had said the federal agent’s reckless use of power led to Ms. Good’s death because “it’s exactly what happened.”

NBC News [1/11/2026 12:33 PM, Megan Lebowitz, 34509K] reports "Border czar" Tom Homan weighed in on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s allegations that the ICE shooting victim was engaged in "domestic terrorism," telling NBC News’ "Meet the Press" that "if you look up this definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within that definition.". Shortly after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good last week, Noem painted Good’s actions as "an act of domestic terrorism," though she did not provide evidence. Asked on "Meet the Press" whether Noem was correct to label Good a domestic terrorist, Homan said, "I don’t know what Secretary Noem knows.". "What I know, I can tell you is what they did is illegal," he continued. "And if you look up this definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within that definition." Several White House officials, including President Donald Trump and Noem, claimed that Good was trying to run over an officer, but those allegations were thrown into question by videos and eyewitnesses. Pressed further about whether the administration had evidence to support Noem’s claims, Homan reiterated that "I don’t know what secretary has that I don’t." "I’m not going to judge what the secretary says, but if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly can fall within that," he said. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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The Hill [1/11/2026 10:47 AM, Tara Suter, 12595K] reports White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said he believed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer thought he “did the right thing” in the recent fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis. “I truly believe, and again, this will come out in the investigation, that in his mind, he feared for his life, and he took appropriate action,” Homan told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “And that — according to federal law, that’s a legitimate response. And even according to Minnesota law, Minnesota state law even talks about a vehicle coming toward you and your right to defend yourself. This officer, I think, in his mind, did the right thing to save his own life and the life of others,” he added. Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good rocked the nation last week and resulted in an outpouring of anger directed at the Trump administration. There had already been widespread criticism of the actions of ICE throughout the beginning of President Trump’s second term, but that criticism exploded this week with the Minneapolis shooting. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Macklin Good was committing an act of “domestic terrorism.” Trump, in an interview with New York Times published Thursday, said Macklin Good had “behaved horribly” before her shooting. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over,” he claimed. On Saturday, thousands of protesters throughout the U.S. rallied against ICE in the wake of the Wednesday shooting. According to Time magazine, thousands of protesters marched in Minneapolis. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Times [1/11/2026 1:53 PM, Seth McLaughlin, 852K] reports White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Democrats and liberal activists are being hypocritical in their outrage over immigration enforcement, arguing they spent years refusing to help deport illegal migrants, ignoring the southern border crisis and vilifying ICE officers. Mr. Homan said elected leaders have allowed people who pose public safety threats — including individuals charged with child sex crimes and rape — to be released from custody. “That’s why we are there,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Let’s not forget who set the stage on this. So all these people on the Democratic side, and all these liberal people want to scream and yell about our law enforcement activities, they didn’t say a word when there was an open border, they didn’t say a word when half a million children were smuggled into this country.” “They were complicit,” he added. Mr. Homan said that dynamic is part of the reason the Trump administration has concentrated some of its enforcement efforts in Minnesota — and why federal officials are wary of working with local authorities on the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent. “That state is a sanctuary state, it is a sanctuary city,” he said. “They don’t work with us.” “It is one of the reasons we are in the position we are in in that city because the law enforcement response has been sporadic at best,” he said. In Ms. Good’s case, Mr. Homan said it is a crime to impede an ICE officer and that he believes the agent thought his life was in danger. Still, he said he is letting the investigation run its course before reaching any conclusions. He also said he trusts the FBI to carry out a fair investigation, despite skepticism from Democrats.

FOX News [1/11/2026 9:55 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports Border czar Tom Homan reveals his assessment of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting, discusses the Trump administration’s immigration policy and more on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Examiner [1/11/2026 11:45 AM, David Zimmermann, 1394K] reports White House border czar Tom Homan is worried the "hateful rhetoric" against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman last week will lead to "more incidents" like it. Speaking with NBC News host Kristen Welker on Sunday, Homan called for an end to the hateful rhetoric against law enforcement. "Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It’s just ridiculous. It’s going to infuriate people more, which means there’s gonna be more incidents like this," he said on NBC’s Meet the Press. He added, "The hateful rhetoric is not only continuing. Now it’s tripling down and doubling down.". Tensions have been increasingly high since Jonathan Ross, 43, killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she accelerated her vehicle toward the ICE officer. In response, Ross shot and killed Good. Homan believes the officer feared for his life when the car moved toward him. "You got a woman behind the wheel of a 4,000-pound vehicle, revving her engine, going toward you," he told Welker. "I truly believe this officer, in his mind, thought his life was in danger, which allows him to use lethal force.".

Politico [1/11/2026 12:04 PM, Jacob Wendler, 2100K] reports White House border czar Tom Homan blamed Democratic leaders in Minnesota for escalating “hateful rhetoric” after an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The pleas from Homan and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to turn down the temperature come as Minnesota officials like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz have accused federal officials of escalating tensions by surging federal agents to the state and refusing to cooperate with state and local officials. “The hateful rhetoric has caused a lot of this violence,” Homan said in a Sunday interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Jacqui Heinrich. “So I said way back in March if the hateful rhetoric doesn’t decrease, there will be bloodshed, and, unfortunately, I was right, and it’s not over. There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric.” Homan added that “I don’t want to see anybody die,” asking Minnesota leaders to “work with us” despite allegations from Frey and Walz that federal officials have not collaborated with them in investigating the incident. Noem, for her part, told Frey and Walz to “grow up” during a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” alleging the two Democrats have “inflamed the public” and “encouraged the kind of destruction and violence that we’ve seen in Minneapolis these last several days.” She also accused Walz and Frey of “using this as an opportunity to divide” during an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on her “Sunday Morning Futures” program. Responding to Noem’s remarks on CNN, Frey defended his rhetoric and criticized the federal government for not cooperating with local and state officials on its investigation into the shooting.

Daily Caller [1/11/2026 12:39 PM, Harold Hutchison, 835K] reports Border czar Tom Homan questioned Sunday why Minnesota authorities should be involved in investigating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s fatal shooting of a woman, arguing that they have thus far failed to cooperate with the Trump administration. An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good while carrying out an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, prompting emotional reactions from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis. Homan told "Fox News Sunday" guest host Jacqui Heinrich that Walz and Frey’s "irritates" him after Heinrich mentioned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s comments defending the agent’s actions. "It is a federal crime to impede or interfere with an ICE officer. … we can see what’s happening throughout the country, I think it’s a funded, organized attack against ICE officers," Homan said. "And what irritates me is, the left wants to play this game that ICE they’re not law enforcement officers. They are federal law enforcement officers. Impeding them or interfering with them is a crime.". "No one would be arguing if we arrested people that interfere with DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] arresting a drug dealer," the border czar continued. "If someone stood in your way, that’s a crime, you’d be arrested. They normalize, the media is normalizing interference with ICE. It is a crime to impede ICE officers.". Frey demanded ICE cease its operations in Minneapolis while raging during a Wednesday press conference, while Walz compared ICE to the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, in a May commencement address for the University of Minnesota law school. Heinrich asked Homan if the refusal to collaborate with Minnesota authorities on the probe into the shooting was a "one-time decision.". "They [local Minnesota authorities] don’t work with us and that’s one of the problems here," Homan told Heinrich, pointing out that Minnesota is a "sanctuary" state. "It’s one of the reasons we are in the position we are in, in that city. Because law enforcement response has been sporadic at best. This is a sanctuary city. Let’s remember, why are we in the city right now? Because they are a sanctuary city that purposefully releases public safety threats back into the public. I just mentioned about all these cases. Child sex crimes, child sodomy, child rape. They release [them] back into the community. These are people we have to go look for."

FOX News [1/11/2026 12:56 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports that Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons discusses the shootings by federal agents in Portland and Minnesota and the subsequent protests across America on ‘The Sunday Briefing.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [1/11/2026 6:27 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports White House deputy press secretary slams members of the Democratic Party’s response to the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, Minn. and more on ‘The Big Weekend Show.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NewsMax [1/11/2026 1:24 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Sunday defended Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s quick characterization of a fatal confrontation involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as "domestic terrorism," saying the video shows a protester used her vehicle as a weapon. "The fact is that Renee Good was interfering with police activity," the Oklahoma Republican told CNN’s "State of the Union." "There’s no question about that right now.". He added that Noem was "absolutely, 100% correct" in describing what happened and said the key facts are already clear, as video and body-worn camera footage show Good accelerated after agents ordered her to exit her vehicle. "There was no question at this point that she accelerated after she was given verbal commands to get out of her vehicle," he said. Mullin added that footage from "different angles from different people’s phones" shows she accelerated toward an agent, calling the vehicle "a lethal weapon.". "At that point, that vehicle becomes a lethal weapon, and the agents had the right to defend themselves," Mullin said. "They exited the vehicle, gave a verbal command. She wasn’t listening.". Mullin said it did not matter whether Good intended to strike the agent or was attempting to flee, saying the danger to officers was the same. "It doesn’t make any difference if you accidentally run over a police officer," Mullin said.

Politico [1/11/2026 12:00 PM, Riya Misra, 13586K] reports that, as federal immigration agents flood the country’s streets, back-to-back shootings have reignited major concerns about the administration’s aggressive crackdown. In Minneapolis, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in her car on Wednesday. Just a day later, two people were wounded at an anti-ICE protest in Portland, Oregon. Both shootings happened against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s hawkish immigration policies, which have turned major cities into hotbeds for ICE activity. In October, former acting ICE director John Sandweg told POLITICO that Trump was deploying ICE agents at an “unprecedented” speed. Now, he says, the repercussions of that are playing out in real time. Sandweg, who led the nation’s top immigration enforcement agency from 2013 to 2014, said ICE serves the entire public — and its politicization is doing it no good. He’s also critical of the administration’s hasty response to Good’s killing, which he argues only further undermined public trust in ICE activity. As Sandweg sees it, ICE needs to pare back its visibility: stop taking partisan sides, mend relationships with local partners and cease publicly announcing their operations. He stresses the need to de-escalate — but worries it isn’t coming anytime soon. “It’s going to be a long time,” Sandweg says, “before the agency recovers.”

Politico [1/11/2026 2:42 PM, Jacob Wendler, 13586K] reports local and federal officials have failed to find common ground as the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman became a flashpoint in the national battle over immigration enforcement, instead accusing one another of escalating a tense standoff that has captured national attention. Just four days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in her car on Wednesday, Trump administration officials blitzed the Sunday shows to make clear that the White House would not back down from its position: that the shooting was justified and that Democratic leaders are responsible for a powder keg that has left three people shot — one of whom was killed — in standoffs with federal agents just this week. Minneapolis leaders, on the other hand, insisted that federal officials were demonizing immigrants and protesters, contributing to an inevitable escalation in violence. Minnesota officials have also clashed with the Trump administration over the effort to investigate the incident, with local leaders saying they’ve been iced out of the federal probe. Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said Thursday that federal officials quickly “reversed course” and said the investigation would be led solely by the FBI after initially vowing to work with state officials. In a Sunday morning interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said “there is deep mistrust” between local and federal officials, accusing the Trump administration of being “quick to jump on a narrative as opposed to the truth.” Frey, who swiftly demanded that ICE “get the fuck out of Minneapolis” on the heels of the shooting, has been thrust into the national spotlight once again after leading the city during a wave of protests following the 2020 killing of George Floyd. But White House border Czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the decision not to partner with state and local officials, with Noem telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday: “We do work with locals when they work with us.” In separate appearances on NBC and Fox News, Homan said the federal government has jurisdiction to lead investigations into shootings involving federal officers. The Trump administration officials also accused Democrats of intensifying tensions in the wake of the shooting, with Homan warning on Fox News, “There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric.” Calls from Democrats for ICE to pull back from its aggressive immigration crackdown also grew louder after Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday, with the city’s mayor calling on the federal government to halt immigration enforcement actions in Portland until more information could come to light about the circumstances of the shooting. Speaking to ABC’s Martha Raddatz during an appearance on “This Week,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) alleged the administration was attempting to “cover up what happened” in Minneapolis.

NBC News [1/11/2026 9:47 AM, Alexandra Marquez, 34509K] reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday called for the federal government to allow state agencies to help investigate an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in his city last week, citing a "deep mistrust" of federal agencies in Minnesota. Asked by "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker if he would accept the results of an FBI investigation of the incident, Frey said, "If it was an FBI investigation that was done jointly with an investigation from the [Minnesota] Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, we could have some trust that there were entities and individuals at the table that were properly reviewing the evidence." The mayor said he didn’t have preconceived notions about what conclusion an investigation by any agency would reach, but "there is deep mistrust" of federal agencies in Minnesota, "because so many of the things that we are hearing are not true." On Thursday, a spokesperson for the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the agency was informed by federal investigators that it "would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation." Asked by reporters about the decision to freeze the state out of the probe, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that state investigators were "not doing their work" following the shooting. Like Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz last week said he had doubts about the federal government’s investigation, telling reporters, "It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome." Walz added that he felt that way "because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [1/11/2026 10:47 AM, Pam Key, 2416K] reports Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said anybody who watched the video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shooting Renee Good can see she was "not a domestic terrorist.". Host Jake Tapper said, "Mayor Frey, your response to what you just heard from Secretary Noem? She invoked you by name.". Frey said, "That was some wild and crazy stuff. You know, it sounds like she doesn’t believe a single word that she is saying right now. And, I don’t know if Donald Trump was drinking a glass of water, if she’d actually be able to speak. Because here’s the thing. She’s calling Minneapolis, like this dystopian hellhole. You know how many shootings we’ve had so far this year? Two. And one of them was ICE—two shootings in a large city so far this entire year. And one of them is ICE. This is a safe city. ICE. And Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making it far less safe.

CNN [1/11/2026 10:02 AM, Margaret Dawson, 18595K] reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara join CNN’s Jake Tapper to respond to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem saying local leaders are “demonizing” ICE officers as a nationwide outcry continues following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [1/11/2026 3:34 PM, Pam Key, 2416K] reports Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said the Trump administration was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unconstitutionally. Host Kristen Welker said, "Let me ask you, because the bigger picture, before this week, Mayor, ICE had already been ramping up its presence in Minneapolis. You said your police officers would not cooperate with them, that ICE enforcement was unconstitutional. You warned before this deadly shooting, quote, somebody is going to get seriously injured. Would you go so far as saying that you would support abolishing ICE?". Frey said, "Well, first off, I did not say that ICE enforcement was unconstitutional. What I said is the way that they are doing it is unconstitutional. You can’t come into a city and discriminate solely on the basis of are you Latino or are you Somali? And then randomly pick people up off the street after that. I mean, we have had pregnant women dragged through the street. We’ve had teenagers that are American citizens just picked up. You can’t just detain somebody because they look like they are Somali or they look like they are Latino. To be very clear, for the whole country. That is what is happening right now. He added, "So, look, do I think that we should just abolish the entire entity that does immigration enforcement? No, but the way it is being utilized doesn’t make sense. I’m not asking for the DOJ to be abolished. I’m not asking for the Office of Management and Budget to be abolished. I am saying that the way that these institutions are being utilized right now by the Trump administration is wrong, and to be clear, is unconstitutional.".

CNN [1/11/2026 11:19 AM, Jake Tapper, 18595K] Video: HERE reports Minneapolis Mayor Frey on ICE’s impact on his city: "You know how many shootings we’ve had so far this year? Two. And one of them was ICE. Two shootings in a large city so far this entire year, and one of them is ICE. This is a safe city. ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making it far less safe."

The Hill [1/11/2026 11:34 AM, Tara Suter, 12595K] reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) doubled down on his explicit comments about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that he made after a fatal shooting in his city last week. “We had, I don’t know, 10,000 or so people that were protesting and marching yesterday. And virtually all of it was [a] very peaceful expression of First Amendment rights,” Frey told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday. “And, you know, to those that are offended, I’m sorry I offended their delicate ears. But as far as who inflamed the situation, you know, I dropped an f-bomb. And they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here, not the f-bomb, which I’m sure we’ve all heard before,” he added. On Wednesday, Frey called for ICE to “get the f‑‑‑ out” of Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good. The shooting has sparked mass backlash aimed at the Trump administration, which had already received heavy criticism over its aggressive immigration agenda in the last year. “We do not want you here,” Frey said at a press conference last week, addressing ICE. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that Macklin Good was committing an act of “domestic terrorism.” Macklin Good was involved with a group that “followed” and “harassed” ICE officers on Wednesday, according to Noem. In response to Noem’s “domestic terrorism” claim, Frey shot back at her Thursday on the social platform X. “Let’s call a spade a spade: Kristi Noem watched the videos and doesn’t want an impartial investigation because she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bulls‑‑‑,” Frey said in his post. The Hill has reached out to ICE for comment. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Daily Caller [1/11/2026 5:17 PM, Anthony Iafrate, 835K] reports Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared to deflect and virtue signal to his city’s Somali and Latino communities after NBC News’s Kristen Welker pressed him on his recent explicit comments toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On the same day an ICE agent in his city fatally shot Renee Good — who appeared in video to accelerate her vehicle in his direction — Frey told the agency to "get the fuck out of Minneapolis." During a Sunday interview on "Meet the Press," Welker asked the mayor if he bore any "responsibility as a local leader" to "bring down the temperature" as volatile anti-ICE protests erupted in the city and across the country. "Of course, I bear responsibility to bring down the temperature, that’s part of my role as mayor. And, by the way, protests here in Minneapolis are peaceful," Frey replied to the host. "And, you know, to those that are offended, I’m sorry I offended their delicate ears.". "I dropped an F-bomb and they killed somebody," the mayor added, repeating verbatim a comment he made two days prior. "I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here, not the F-bomb, which I’m sure we’ve all heard before.". Welker followed up by highlighting anti-ICE remarks Frey made prior to the shooting. In December 2025, Frey claimed that the law enforcement agency’s increased presence in the city under the Trump administration worried him that "somebody is going to get seriously injured or killed." The host also asked the mayor if he supports abolishing ICE. "Well, first off, I did not say that ICE enforcement was unconstitutional. What I said is the way that they are doing it is unconstitutional," Frey replied. "You can’t come into a city and discriminate solely on the basis of, ‘Are you Latino?’ or ‘Are you Somali?’ and then randomly pick people up off the street after that.". Frey went on to claim "we have had pregnant women dragged through the street," as well as teenage American citizens "just picked up.". "You can’t just detain somebody because they look like they are Somali or they look like they are Latino. To be very clear for the whole country, that is what is happening right now," Frey asserted. Welker then presented Frey with Trump White House border czar Tom Homan’s observation Minneapolis’s "sanctuary city" policy — which Frey supports — interferes with ICE’s abilities to do its job. "How do you respond to that argument, that your city’s stance and eliminating cooperation with ICE has made it harder for federal law enforcement to safely enforce immigration laws in your city?" Welker asked. "Look, what our policy says is that I don’t want our police officers spending time working with ICE on immigration enforcement. Because why? That’s not our primary job. You know what I want our police officers doing? I want them stopping murders from happening. I want them preventing carjackings," the mayor said. "You know what I don’t want them doing? I don’t want them spending a single second hunting down a father who just dropped his kids off at day care, is about to go work a 12-hour shift, who happened to be from Ecuador," Frey continued. "That guy, he makes Minneapolis a better place, and I am proud to have him in our city. So, I want our officers focusing on safety, not randomly plucking people off the street and hunting them down.". The mayor, who has a history of vying to gain the support of Minneapolis’s significant Somali population, defeated a prominent socialist challenger of Somali descent, Democratic Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, to win reelection to a third term in November 2025.

The Hill [1/11/2026 4:46 PM, Sarah Fortinsky, 12595K] reports Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) called for due process in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, slamming the Trump administration for drawing hasty conclusions about the incident before an investigation took place. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker criticized Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for saying the ICE officer shot an American citizen in Minneapolis on Wednesday because she “weaponized” her vehicle in an “act of domestic terrorism.” The claim has sharply divided the country, as observers have pored over the video footage released in the subsequent days, with some agreeing with the administration’s conclusion that the woman tried to drive over officers and others seeing the woman trying to drive away from the situation. But Pritzker said the divergent views reveal the necessity of due process. He pointed to two other ICE-involved shootings in his state where, according to the governor, the Department of Homeland Security put out statements that were later discovered not to be supported by the evidence. “When you have video, as you do in Minneapolis, when you have eyewitness testimony from people, it seems like there’s a whole lot of evidence. And it should be adjudicated,” Pritzker said. “There should, in fact, be due process.”

The Washington Examiner [1/11/2026 11:56 AM, Asher Notheis, 1394K] reports Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) called for the removal of two prominent Department of Homeland Security officials on Sunday, citing the recent Minneapolis shooting involving the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Pritzker compared Wednesday’s shooting in Minneapolis to two shootings in Chicago involving ICE, one of which saw authorities shoot someone attempting to flee a traffic stop in September 2025. Similar to the Minneapolis shooting involving victim Renee Good, DHS said the Chicago shooting victim, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, attempted to use his vehicle as a weapon, prompting ICE agents to act in self-defense. The Illinois governor said whenever an ICE-related shooting happens, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin will issue statements "within minutes" to clarify what happened. However, he said eyewitnesses who come forward afterward will provide new information on the Chicago shootings showing "ICE was at fault.". "Now we’re seeing it in Minneapolis, we’re seeing the shooting in Portland and elsewhere. They are, ICE and CBP, are breaking their own protocols. You read them earlier, their own protocols, and not only roughing people up but literally shooting at people and killing them when in some cases they’re U.S. citizens and they’re doing nothing wrong. So this is why I have said that the president is not following the law, why Kristi Noem needs to resign or be impeached, and why Tricia McLaughlin should not have the job that she has. She’s a pathological liar," Pritzker said on CNN’s State of the Union. Breitbart [1/11/2026 11:02 AM, Pam Key, 2416K] reports Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union," Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem needed "to resign or be impeached.". Host Jake Tapper said, "I want to start with your reaction to what happened in Minneapolis and also what you heard from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Pritzker said, "Well, what happened in Minneapolis is a tragedy, and it’s one that we’ve seen twice, at least in Chicago and in the Chicago area. We had two. We had a murder that took place by an ICE agent, who claimed that he was seriously injured by somebody. And that’s why he shot and killed them. Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. And that was in September, by the way. And then there was another shooting in October. Five times a woman was shot. ICE claimed that she had a semiautomatic weapon. She did not, but each time the DHS, Kristi Noem and her assistant secretary, Patricia McLaughlin, have put out statements within minutes, usually maybe within the hour, putting facts forward at the beginning, we didn’t know what the facts workers or cameras on the situations, but then witnesses came forward and we found out what really happened in both those situations.". He added, "And that is why we know that ICE was at fault and why no charges have been brought. Against, for example, the woman who was shot five times, who they claimed was a domestic terrorist back then. Now we’re seeing it in Minneapolis. We’re seeing the shooting in Portland and elsewhere. They are ICE and CBP, are breaking their own protocols. You read them earlier, their own protocols and, not only roughing people up, but literally shooting at people and killing them, when in some cases, the U.S. citizens and they’re doing nothing wrong. So, this is why I have said that the president is not following the law. Why Kristi Noem needs to resign or be impeached, and why Trisha McLaughlin should not have the job that she has. She’s a pathological liar. She’s their spokesperson.".

CNN [1/11/2026 11:22 AM, Jake Tapper, 18595K] Video: HERE reports Illinois Governor JB Pritzker responds to Secretary Noem’s CNN interview and her defense of the ICE agent’s use of deadly force against a U.S. citizen.

The Hill [1/11/2026 5:59 PM, Max Rego, 12595K] reports Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) defended the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good on Wednesday, arguing he was acting in self-defense. Mullin told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross “had the right to defend” himself once Macklin Good drove forward. “Did she know [Ross] was in front of her? We don’t know, but we do know that she accelerated and she hit the [officer]. At that point, that vehicle is a lethal weapon,” the Oklahoma Republican added. Videos of the incident show masked officers approaching Macklin Good’s red Honda — parked perpendicularly across the street — and instructing her to get out of the car multiple times, with one grabbing the driver’s side door handle. At that time, Macklin Good backed up the car. Upon Macklin Good driving forward — after turning her wheel — at the urging of her partner, Ross fires multiple shots at her. The car then accelerates, making contact with the officer and crashing into a car parked on the side of the street. The Trump administration has defended Ross, saying he acted out of self-defense and that Macklin Good, 37, had “weaponized” her vehicle. ICE has also said that the officer was injured while being dragged by a car during an apprehension in June. Vice President Vance told reporters Thursday that Ross received more than 30 stitches after the incident and suffered “very serious injuries to his legs.” Local Democratic officials, notably Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have disputed the administration’s self-defense argument. Frey also asked immigration officials to leave the city in remarks on Wednesday. “We do not want you here,” the mayor said. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.” The incident has also sparked protests against ICE and the administration in Minneapolis and cities nationwide. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Politico [1/11/2023 10:05 AM, David Cohen, 2100K] reports Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said Sunday the Trump administration is orchestrating a cover-up of the events surrounding the fatal shooting of Renee Good last week. “I mean I think what we are seeing here is the federal government, Kristi Noem, Vice President Vance, Donald Trump, attempt to cover up what happened here in the Twin Cities,” the senator said on ABC’s “This Week.” “And I don’t think that people here and around the country are believing it.” When host Martha Raddatz told the senator that was a serious allegation, Smith confirmed she meant what she said. “What I mean by that,” Smith told Raddatz, “is that you can see everything that they are doing is trying to shape the narrative, to say what happened, without any investigation. And, you know, hours after Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents, Kristi Noem was already telling us exactly what had happened. They were calling her a domestic terrorist before they even knew what her name was. ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Good on a Minneapolis street last week. At issue is whether Ross had reason to do so, in particular whether he had reason to believe his life was in imminent danger. The Trump administration has argued that he did, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on CNN’s “State of the Union” doubling down Sunday on her assertion that Good was a dangerous person who was breaking the law. Smith, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year, doubted that claim. “I understand how law enforcement, professional law enforcement, is trained,” she said. “They are trained to de-escalate situations, not make some worse, not make conflict worse. They are certainly trained to step out of the way of a moving vehicle, not place themselves in the middle of a moving vehicle. “And no professional law enforcement would, like, exchange words or banter with somebody who is engaged in their legal right to protest and then lose control, which is, you know, which looks to me like what happened here,” she said.

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Telemundo [1/11/2026 1:38 PM, Staff, 2218K] reports the investigation into the death of a woman shot by a police officer in Minneapolis should not be overseen solely by the federal government, two of the state’s top Democrats said Sunday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Senator Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened. "How can we trust the federal government to conduct an objective, impartial, and unbiased investigation when, at the outset of that investigation, they have already announced exactly what they say they saw and what they think happened?" Smith said on ABC’s This Week. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Renee Nicole Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and his colleagues. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

New York Post [1/11/2026 1:56 PM, Ryan King, 42219K] reports "Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar implored the public to film Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and blasted the Trump administration for making judgments about the shooting of Renee Good before an investigation into it. "It is really important for Americans to record, to create the level of accountability and transparency that we need," the far-left Minnesota congresswoman told CBS News’ "Face the Nation" Sunday. "What we’ve seen in Minneapolis is ICE agents oftentimes jumping out of their cars, these are unmarked cars, oftentimes they’re wearing a mask, they’re approaching, running towards cars.". ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who shot Good after she accelerated her SUV in his direction, captured footage of the incident on his cellphone, according to officials, which has been publicly released in the days since the incident. Ross did not have a body camera because the agency is "still in the process of deploying" them, ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing.". Omar also accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of lying repeatedly about high-profile ICE raids. The lefty congresswoman, whose 5th congressional district in Minnesota covers Minneapolis, contended that Good was scared when the ICE officers approached her and bashed their response. Dramatic footage showed Ross standing in front of Good’s stopped SUV before she began accelerating in his direction, at which time he fired three shots, killing her. Ross was then brought to a nearby hospital after he was "hit by the vehicle" before being released, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The Hill [1/11/2026 5:42 PM, Tara Suter, 12595K] reports Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday pushed back on Trump administration attacks on Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week in Minneapolis. “It is not acceptable for Kristi Noem and the president and the vice president to make these kind of judgments without there being a full investigation, even though we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place,” Omar told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” “And so, if they’re saying that we shouldn’t believe our eyes, then let the investigation take place before you characterize this mother of three as a domestic terrorist. Prove to us what documentation you have,” she added. Anger toward the Trump administration over its immigration agenda was present throughout President Trump’s first year back in office, but it exploded after Macklin Good’s killing in Minneapolis last week. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Macklin Good was committing “domestic terrorism.” Trump, in an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, said Macklin Good had “behaved horribly” before her shooting. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over,” Trump said in the interview.

CBS News [1/11/2026 4:40 PM, Staff, 39474K] Video: HERE reports Rep. Ilhan Omar said Sunday that it is "not acceptable" for President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to have issued public statements condemning the women shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis "without a full investigation." "If they’re saying we shouldn’t believe our eyes, then let the investigation take place before you characterize this mother of three as a domestic terrorist," Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "Prove to us what documentation you have that one, she was paid and two, that she was agitating when you can hear saying she’s not mad, she’s not upset, she’s clearly trying to waive cars to bypass her. And so it’s just this level of rhetoric is unjustifiable to the American people." Amid an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American citizen. Video of the incident from different vantage points has ricocheted across social media, with Mr. Trump and Vance insisting Good had instigated the shooting, although the footage is unclear whether Good was attempting to drive into the ICE agent or drive away. Immediately after the shooting, Noem called it an "act of domestic terrorism," doubling down on Sunday by alleging that Good had "weaponized her vehicle to conduct an act of violence against the law enforcement officer and the public." In response to Omar’s comments on Sunday, a White House spokesperson said "multiple videos" contradicted Omar, and insisted the "ICE officer was clearly struck by Good’s car."

Daily Caller [1/11/2026 5:53 PM, Anthony Iafrate, 835K] reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is "disappearing U.S. citizens" a "ridiculous lie," in a statement shared Sunday with the Daily Caller News Foundation. While at an anti-ICE protest with fellow Democratic Minnesota Reps. Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison, Omar accused the agency, under the Trump administration, of "disappearing" people, including U.S. citizens. The Somali-born congresswoman also claimed this "is a brand new policy" which "hasn’t happened before." "When people are disappeared in the darkness, American democracy dies, and it is really important for every single person in this country to understand that they are not only disappearing people who have committed crimes, who are in this country undocumented. They are disappearing U.S. citizens," Omar told reporters Saturday, three days after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in Omar’s district. "ICE does not ‘disappear’ people. This is a ridiculous lie that the media is peddling to demonize ICE law enforcement who are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the DCNF, referring Sunday to statistics her agency cited in a Thursday press release. ICE is an agency of DHS. "ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens," McLaughlin continued. "If a U.S. citizen is arrested, it is because they have obstructed or assaulted law enforcement. Every day the men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens. This violence against ICE must end.". Omar’s office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request to clarify what Omar meant by the term "disappearing" and for specific examples of ICE, under the Trump administration, "disappearing" U.S. citizens. In her remarks at the Saturday protest, Omar also claimed ICE is "disappearing people who have proper documentation, sometimes telling them that their documentations are wrong, keeping them for days upon days.".

CBS News [1/11/2026 2:46 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar denounced a surge of federal agents to Minneapolis targeting Somalis and other immigrants after a fraud scheme in the state, saying the Trump administration has sown "confusion and chaos.". "It’s not necessary in a moment when we are trying to deal with a serious problem that needs serious people to be able to address it," Omar said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.". The Minneapolis area now has one of the largest concentrations of Department of Homeland Security agents in any American city in recent years. There are more than 2,400 federal agents, more than double the number of local police officers, and the federal government intends to send hundreds more. The administration says the surge has been necessary to conduct both immigration enforcement and to investigate a growing fraud scandal in the state, the cost of which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion. The scandal dates back to 2021, when Biden administration Justice Department investigators first honed in on an at least $250 million COVID-era scam revolving around the Feeding Our Future program, a case that now includes more than 75 defendants. Most of the defendants are of Somali descent, leading President Trump and other Republican lawmakers to focus attention on the state’s large Somali community, while threatening to suspend federal funding to the state across a broad array of programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and child care funding. These actions have drawn stiff criticism from local officials, including Omar. "There is no reason for them to use this level of rhetoric. There is no reason for them to fully stop these programs, funding these programs," Omar said. "The only reason they are doing that is for PR purposes. And it is harming our state. It is harming my constituents.". In response to Omar’s comments, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Sunday that it was "not surprising" that the congresswoman is "more concerned about Somali fraudsters being held accountable for their crimes than she is about the fraud taking place.".

AP [1/11/2026 6:27 PM, James Pollard and Sarah Raza, 4722K] reports some celebrities donned anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes on Sunday in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer this week in Minneapolis. The black-and-white pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” introducing a political angle into the awards show after last year’s relatively apolitical ceremony. Mark Ruffalo wore one such pin on the red carpet, and other celebrities were expected to have them on display as well. Since the shooting Wednesday, protests have broken out across the country, calling for accountability for Good’s death as well as a separate shooting in Portland where Border Patrol agents wounded two people. Some protests have resulted in clashes with law enforcement, especially in Minneapolis, where ICE is carrying out its largest immigration enforcement operation to date. “We need every part of civil society, society to speak up,” said Nelini Stamp of Working Families Power, one of the organizers for the anti-ICE pins. “We need our artists. We need our entertainers. We need the folks who reflect society.” Congressmembers have vowed an assertive response, and an FBI investigation into Good’s killing is ongoing. The Trump administration has doubled down in defending the ICE officer’s actions, maintaining that he was acting in self-defense and thought Good would hit him with her car. Just a week before Good was killed, an off-duty ICE officer fatally shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Porter in Los Angeles. His death sparked protests in the Los Angeles area, calling for the officer responsible to be arrested. The idea for the “ICE OUT” pins began with a late-night text exchange earlier this week between Stamp and Jess Morales Rocketto, the executive director of a Latino advocacy group called Maremoto. They know that high-profile cultural moments can introduce millions of viewers to social issues. This is the third year of Golden Globes activism for Morales Rocketto, who has previously rallied Hollywood to protest the Trump administration’s family separation policies. Stamp said she always thinks of the 1973 Oscars, when Sacheen Littlefeather took Marlon Brando’s place and declined his award to protest American entertainment’s portrayal of Native Americans. So, the two organizers began calling up the celebrities and influencers they knew, who in turn brought their campaign to the more prominent figures in their circles. That initial outreach included labor activist Ai-jen Poo, who walked the Golden Globes’ red carpet in 2018 with Meryl Streep to highlight the Time’s Up movement. “There is a longstanding tradition of people who create art taking a stand for justice in moments,” Stamp said. “We’re going to continue that tradition.”

FOX News [1/11/2026 8:00 AM, Preston Mizell, 40621K] Video: HERE reports a former ICE and Secret Service agent detailed the decision-making process an immigration officer would have faced during the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Timothy Miller, who is also a former police officer, told Fox News Digital that agents are trained to "respond to a deadly force situation based on the facts" and with "appropriate deadly force." "Think about an agent standing literally within a foot of the front bumper of a car, center of the front bumper, and now the car accelerates," Miller explained. "That vehicle is even more deadly than a gun. You can survive a gunshot. If a car runs over you, it’s not going to go well." "Everyone else has months to evaluate what an officer must decide in split seconds," Miller added. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the woman who was killed, later identified as Renee Nicole Good, as a "domestic terrorist" and alleged that Good "proceeded to weaponize her vehicle" after blocking ICE agents in the road.
The former Secret Service agent went on to emphasize the precedent set by the Supreme Court ruling in Graham v. Connor, which ties the definition of the use of excessive force by law enforcement to that of the Fourth Amendment and a standard of "objective reasonableness." The highest court ruled in the 1989 case that officers should be judged by their decision-making in the brief moments or seconds of an incident, not by how an officer’s reaction may seem in hindsight. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [1/11/2026 2:22 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., discusses anti-ICE protests, sanctuary city legislation, the Minneapolis shooting investigation and a dispute over lawmakers’ access to ICE facilities. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CBS News [1/11/2026 1:56 PM, Nicole Sganga, 39474K] Video: HERE reports on Wednesday, as the Trump administration was intensifying immigration raids in Minnesota, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. As videos of the shooting circulated online, different accounts of what happened emerged, putting Minnesota officials sharply at odds with the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Good’s interaction with ICE agents as "an act of domestic terrorism.". Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the administration’s portrayal, saying, "Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bull****.". Vice President JD Vance placed the blame on Good, telling reporters, "I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making.". Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, meanwhile, said, "People in positions of power have already passed judgement. From the president, to the vice president, to Kristi Noem, [they] have stood and told you things that are verifiably false.". More than 2,000 federal agents arrived in Minnesota this past week – the largest deployment of its kind under President Trump – in what the administration says is a crackdown on both fraud and illegal immigration. The fatal shooting comes amid a turbulent time for the state, which has been reeling from a welfare scandal. The situation has remained tense in Minneapolis. State investigators say federal officials have denied them access to evidence in the investigation of Good’s death. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison stated, "The current posture is that the investigation is one that the feds want to do without state involvement.". Minneapolis public schools cancelled classes. Vigils popped up citywide. And demonstrators are taking to the streets with familiar outrage.

The New York Times [1/11/2026 7:12 PM, Nate Schweber, 135475K] reports thousands of demonstrators marched peacefully in New York City on Sunday to protest the Trump administration and the killing of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week in Minneapolis. The crowd gathered on Sunday afternoon at the southeast corner of Central Park, many of them holding signs condemning President Trump’s mass deportation efforts and his recent military actions in Venezuela. Local politicians joined the rally to show their support. “It’s a damn shame we’re out here in 2026 fighting against a fascist government,” said Alexa Avilés, a City Council member from Brooklyn. Brad Lander, the former city comptroller, and Jumaane Williams, the public advocate, stood nearby. The protest then made its way south on Fifth Avenue, soon arriving at Trump Tower. Demonstrators blocked traffic as many chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go!” One demonstrator, Carla Shotwell, stood in front of the glassy high-rise building holding a sign that read “Deport Kristi Noem Back to Hell,” in reference to the homeland security secretary, who has defended the ICE agent who shot Ms. Good. President Trump and other federal officials have said that the agent was acting in self-defense after Ms. Good tried to hit him with her car; Minnesota officials have rejected that account, calling it “propaganda.” A video analysis by The New York Times shows that the car appeared to be turning away from the agent when he opened fire. Ms. Shotwell said she had protested against Mr. Trump before, and that she was moved to show up again on Sunday by the killing of Ms. Good. “I hope more people who are in the city, who are shopping, who are not paying attention, see how many people think this is wrong,” she said. The demonstration followed similar mobilizations across the country in recent days, including a smaller protest on Thursday starting at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, near a federal building that houses ICE offices and the city’s main immigration court. The protesters on Sunday continued marching south and west before dispersing at West 42nd Street and Broadway around 4 p.m. A few dozen people who remained had a brief confrontation with a small group of pro-Trump counterprotesters, and at least one person was detained by the police. The New York Post [1/11/2026 5:37 PM, Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, 42219K] reports more than 2,000 anti-ICE demonstrators packed a corner of Central Park on Sunday in the latest massive protest since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week. The crowd marched down a stretch of Fifth Avenue under the close watch of the NYPD, as protesters flashed signs slamming federal immigration officials and President Trump — just days after passions were inflamed by the controversial Minnesota shooting. "I’m here today to overthrow Trump’s Gestapo, which is ICE," one demonstrator from Rockland County who identified himself only as Glenn, 61, told The Post. "Renee Good was murdered by ICE and you’re asking me if we think it’s OK to meet them with violence? Yes," he said. "They are kidnappers. If violence is what they understand, speak in the language they understand.". Despite violent rhetoric, the demonstration remained raucous but peaceful through late afternoon. The Trump administration — especially Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — has said ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired the fatal shots in self-defense after Good struck the federal cop with her vehicle during a face-off with federal agents in Minneapolis last Wednesday.

Washington Post [1/11/2026 10:58 PM, Dan Morse, 24149K] reports that, with chants of “No ICE” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, all these fascists got to go,” more than a thousand people marched through Washington on Sunday to protest the killing of Renée Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. The demonstration, along several streets, ended outside ICE headquarters on 12 Street SW. “I just hope we can find a way to more humanely treat our neighbors and welcome them into our country,” said Kaska Watson, 36, who said she was pleased with the size of the crowd given the chilly, windy conditions. “In general, I am just really disappointed in the leadership of this country and the behavior of ICE agents for just not treating people humanely,” said her friend Theresa Dipeppe, 35. The two spoke in front of the multistory ICE headquarters in the 500 block of 12th Street SW and said it was strange being so close to what they described as the place where policy decisions they disagree with are being made. The protest in Washington, organized by 50501 DC and FLARE, was one of many actions against ICE held nationwide over the weekend. A crowd in New York City blocked 5th Avenue in front of Trump Tower, where the president maintained his personal residence for years, hurling insults and making gestures at the building. On Saturday, protesters had gathered again in Minneapolis, near where Good lived and was fatally shot, and vigils and demonstrations were held in Boston; Philadelphia; Austin; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon, where federal agents shot and injured two people on Thursday. “The shootings in Minneapolis and Portland weren’t the beginning of ICE’s cruelty, but they must be the end,” Deirdre Schifeling, chief political and advocacy officer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the administration would dispatch more federal agents to Minnesota on Monday. “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 in an interview with Fox NewsBusiness’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Noem said that Good was to blame for the shooting, even though an official investigation into the shooting has not been completed, and as video evidence raised several questions about the administration’s assessment of what happened. The D.C. protest began in the 300 block of Constitution Avenue NW. Although some signs and chants were laced with profanity, the march seemed peaceful with no apparent clashes with police. Among the crowd was Keith Bettinger, who came with his 9½-month-old son, Xavier. “He’s pretty used to this sort of thing,” said Bettinger, who has been taking his son to weekly protests against the Trump administration along Connecticut Avenue just north of Woodley Park.

FOX News [1/11/2026 5:36 PM, Greg Wehner, 40621K] reports Demonstrators with competing causes clashed in Washington, D.C. on Sunday as groups protesting unrest in Iran converged with other anti-ICE agitators and activists chanting "Free Palestine," leading to tense scenes as the crowds shouted over one another. Video from the scene shows several protest groups gathering in the same area, creating a chaotic and at times confrontational scene. A person filming the demonstrations said the crowd had "quadrupled in a week," as protests have expanded in recent days. Some demonstrators were seen holding pre-Ayatollah Iranian flags and signs reading "The World is Watching," reflecting opposition to Iran’s current regime amid violent protests overseas. The gathering comes as unrest has escalated in Iran, where armed protesters have clashed with police in Tehran and other cities, prompting warnings from President Donald Trump about a potential forceful U.S. response. As the demonstrators moved through the area, they encountered another group chanting "Free Palestine," prompting both sides to raise their voices and attempt to shout over one another. The competing chants continued for several moments, with neither group appearing willing to cede space.

CBS News [1/11/2026 3:51 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports that demonstrators gathered Sunday at a busy East Cobb intersection as part of a national coordinated push calling for accountability within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week. Rallies unfolded across metro Atlanta over the weekend, including protests at the Atlanta ICE Field Office and along Johnson Ferry and Roswell Road in East Cobb. Organizers say participation surged after a video of the Minneapolis shooting sparked widespread outrage. Organized by Indivisible Cobb, the Marietta event was part of a nationwide weekend of action. Protesters gathered from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Johnson Ferry Road and Roswell Road, holding signs, chanting and calling for the end of ICE’s "unchecked enforcement practices.". Organizers described the rally as peaceful, with no arrests reported. Hours before the Marietta rally began, Indivisible Cobb said it received a warning from its event safety group about an online threat directed at the protest. In a written statement, organizers said they investigated the claim and believed the threat was intended to intimidate attendees, not necessarily to be carried out. Still, they briefed safety marshals and prepared contingency plans.

Breitbart [1/11/2026 1:16 PM, Randy Clark, 2416K] reports that nearly two hundred members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) gathered in downtown San Antonio to protest the recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting in Minneapolis. The group and attendees created a makeshift memorial to Renee Good, the woman who was shot after driving her vehicle towards an ICE agent enforcing immigration laws on Wednesday. Breitbart Texas observed Saturday’s protest at the public Plaza near San Antonio City Hall. The video shows the protest organizers leading the crowd in anti-ICE chants as they surround a makeshift memorial to Renee Good. The memorial was constructed of flowers, candles, and signs with messages under Good’s photo that read, "We the people saw the video," and "Justice for Renee Good!!!". As with other protests organized by the group, some wore the Palestinian Keffiyeh scarves. The group also chanted slogans in protest of the U.S. military action in Venezuela that led to the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro. The crowd carried anti-ICE signs, some of which contained vulgar messages also directed at the Border Patrol. At least one member in the group prominently sported the Brown Beret uniform. The Brown Berets are a pro-Chicano paramilitary organization that describes its members as militants and not activists. The group recently protested against a law enforcement raid that led to the arrest of 51 members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang at an illegal nightclub in north San Antonio in December. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the San Antonio Party for Socialism and Liberation has shifted the focus of its activities from pro-Hamas protests at the height of the Gaza War to protesting enforcement actions by federal law enforcement agencies targeting the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang and protests that support the now captured socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The group has pivoted quickly to include the recent Minneapolis ICE shooting in its protest schedule.

CBS News [1/11/2026 1:36 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports "ICE does not have authority to shoot anyone, period," Ayian Franklin told CBS News Texas. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [1/11/2026 10:19 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports Former Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli discusses Portland protests tied to alleged gang members and reviews new video from the Minneapolis ICE shooting. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [1/11/2026 6:59 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports anti-ICE agitators demonstrated Saturday outside a detention facility in Los Angeles, with LAPD making multiple arrests. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

New York Times [1/12/2026 5:00 AM, Greg Jaffe, 153395K] reports she believed that the key to being a good recruiter was not just selling the military and its benefits, but herself. Sgt. First Class Rosa Cortez wanted potential recruits to notice the pictures of her smiling children, her college diploma and the awards she had earned in the course of her nearly 20 years with the Oregon National Guard. Her goal was to “radiate positivity,” she said. “People will see it and want to align with you.” Lately though, she, along with hundreds of other recruiters around the country, had been offering something else: protection from the government she served. President Trump’s second term has been defined by an extensive crackdown on undocumented immigrants that has set off waves of fear in places with large Hispanic populations. In many of these areas, a little-known government program called Parole in Place has become a refuge of last resort and a powerful recruiting tool. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enlist in the military. The Parole in Place program, launched in 2013, provides the undocumented parents and spouses of service members protection from deportation, and an expedited pathway to permanent residency. Parole in Place’s origins trace to May 2007, one of the deadliest months of the Iraq War. Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez’s platoon was patrolling a village south of Baghdad when insurgents attacked and took him captive. His remains were recovered more than a year later. While thousands of U.S. troops searched for the 25-year-old soldier, his wife, who had entered the United States illegally from the Dominican Republic, was being deported. Amid a public outcry, the Bush administration granted her permanent residency. The program was formalized a few years later. The goal was to provide soldiers peace of mind before they went to war. If a service member drops out or is dishonorably discharged, their family member loses protective status. In 2023, about 11,500 relatives of military recruits used the benefit, a 35 percent increase over the previous year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. For Sergeant Cortez, the program had become something bigger than numbers. Her mother had crossed the Mexican border illegally with her family in 1976 at age 7. “Cherries, apples, pears, plums, onions. You name it, we probably picked it,” Sergeant Cortez said. The turning point for her family came when one of her uncles, who had obtained legal residency in the 1980s, joined the Oregon National Guard. The entire family — seven people crammed into a car fit for five — drove more than 30 hours to Fort Knox, Ky., for his basic training graduation. A second uncle followed the first into the military. Soon, both found steady jobs as full-time technicians working on the Oregon National Guard’s fleet of cargo helicopters. Sergeant Cortez and her extended family moved from the farm labor camps to a neighborhood in Milton-Freewater, Ore. In 2004, when Sergeant Cortez was 16, her uncles deployed to Afghanistan. Two years later, she enlisted and shipped off to basic training. Now, she was a 37-year-old mother of three and a full-time National Guard recruiter, selling the benefits of service to a nation at war with itself over immigration, and who deserved to be an American. As a soldier and a recruiter, she had to steer clear of divisive, political fights. As the child of Mexican immigrants in a place that felt besieged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the topic was impossible to avoid. “Emotions are everywhere for me,” she said.

FOX News [1/11/2026 11:26 AM, David Marcus, 40621K] reports there seems to be a bit of confusion in our society of late about what "civil disobedience" is and what it isn’t. Last week, this very confusion got 37-year-old Renee Good killed. Political protest in the form of civil disobedience has a long and very proud tradition, from Mahatma Gandhi nonviolently defying the British in India, to our own Martin Luther King Jr. penning his eloquence from a Birmingham jail cell. There is a stoic dignity to this practice, which in and of itself grants the words of its practitioners a gravity and profound humility. What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime. The word "civil" in civil disobedience refers to the fact that the protester is allowing themselves to be arrested in order to emphasize just how important their cause is to them. It is also generally done in a context that threatens minimal harm to police and bystanders. Today, across the country, but especially in bastions of democratic socialism like Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle, we see something entirely different: bands of people following, harassing, doxxing and sometimes engaging in direct assault against ICE agents. What these ICE Watch groups across the country, of which Good was reportedly a trained member, do is entirely different. They are trying to impede federal agents from carrying out democratically enacted laws, not sending a message, and importantly, they are trying to evade capture. Sorry, that is crime, not protest.

Wall Street Journal [1/11/2026 4:06 PM, Elizabeth L. Branch and Robert L. Wilkins, 646K] reports Chief Justice John Roberts warned in his annual report a year ago about an alarming rise in attacks on judges. Hostile threats to judges have more than tripled in the past decade. Recent years have seen a foiled assassination attempt on a Supreme Court justice and a bullet meant for a federal judge that instead killed her son. We know from public reports and personal experience that threats against the judiciary further escalated in 2025. That is why we support the Protect Our Prosecutors and Judges Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. The bill would allow federal judges and prosecutors who have completed law-enforcement firearms training in their home jurisdiction to carry concealed guns across state lines. The bill addresses a vulnerability federal judges regularly face. We travel frequently for work, often in high-profile situations. Many appellate judges “ride the circuit” each month, hearing appeals throughout their region but away from their home state. Federal judges on all levels also periodically sit as visiting judges in distant courts that lack a full complement of jurists. Most judges travel regularly to attend judicial conferences, to speak at bar associations and universities, or to officiate moot courts at law schools. Away from home, federal judges are incredibly vulnerable. Their attendance at hearings and other events is often publicized ahead of time. They frequently find themselves in unfamiliar territory, where they lack the ready access to local law enforcement and federal marshals they enjoy in their home districts. But due to differences among states’ concealed-carry laws, even judges who can carry firearms in their home jurisdictions often can’t do so when they travel to others. Being unfamiliar with often complex gun laws in other jurisdictions, many judges often reluctantly leave their weapons at home when traveling. While federal marshals are statutorily authorized to protect federal judges, they have the funding and manpower to combat only a fraction of the threats judges face. Only when judges face known, significant dangers can the marshals provide them with the type of security details senior executive branch officials regularly receive. As vital as they are, marshals simply can’t provide robust protection to all federal judges while traveling. The upshot is that federal judges are uniquely vulnerable outside their home jurisdictions—and currently have little ability to protect themselves. The Protect Our Prosecutors and Judges Act would ameliorate this situation by allowing judges to protect themselves wherever they travel. We were appointed by presidents of both parties and live and work in different jurisdictions. We experience regular threats to ourselves and our colleagues and believe there is a pressing need for federal judges to be able to protect themselves. As federal judges, we recognize that certain risks and inconveniences accompany a position of public trust like ours. But public officials shouldn’t be left unprotected against physical danger simply for doing their jobs. This bill provides a reasonable and inexpensive way to protect judges better and to uphold the integrity of our justice system.

FOX News [1/12/2026 5:00 AM, Chuck DeVore, 40621K] reports as the Trump administration ramps up enforcement against illegal immigration and cracks down on welfare fraud, the radical left is escalating its tactics in a calculated bid to create martyrs. We’ve seen this before, but today’s ideological fervor, backed by deep-pocketed donors and foreign influences, makes it far more dangerous. From blocking ICE operations to shielding massive fraud schemes in states like Minnesota, Illinois, California, and New York, the left isn’t just resisting—they’re spoiling for a fight that with the intent of sparking widespread unrest. The signs are everywhere. In recent days, we’ve witnessed nullificationist governors and mayors openly defying federal authority, stoking violent rhetoric in the wake of the shooting death of Rachel Good in Minneapolis after she allegedly attempted to rundown a federal law enforcement agent. This incitement by elected officials inevitably increases the threat of violence against ICE agents. This is a calculated strategy. As the New York Post reported, Good was a so-called "ICE Watch" activist, whom a friend called a "warrior." Meaning, Good was at the federal law enforcement operation to disrupt it and — with luck — get filmed while doing so. But Trump and federal law enforcement shouldn’t back down; they should outsmart the professional agitators with agile tactics. Elected officials on the left are whipping up hysteria not just to fundraise and fend off primary challenges from their even more extreme flanks, but to provoke confrontations that could produce martyrs. Martyrs, as history shows, are powerful accelerants for political violence, as the death of George Floyd in 2020 in Minneapolis showed. They rally the base and demonize opponents — with the two main strategic objectives being to pressure administrations to retreat while costing Republicans in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential contest.

FOX News [1/11/2026 10:00 AM, Rep. Michael Baumgartner, 40621K] reports on Christmas Day, U.S. forces unleashed targeted missile and drone strikes in Nigeria against Islamist terrorists who had been killing Christians and other civilians with impunity. It propelled Nigeria into the headlines and caught many Americans unaware of the growing conflict in Africa between Christians, radical Islam and others that is spreading across the sub-Saharan Sahel region. But I had just been on a fact-finding mission to Nigeria a week earlier and, although U.S. Africa Command’s kinetic action was a surprise, it was not entirely unexpected. In November, President Donald Trump had made clear to Nigeria’s leaders that they had to do more to combat terrorism. This strike resulted from close cooperation between Nigerian and American military planners. In the nation’s capital, Abuja, I knelt in the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria the weekend before Christmas and prayed with Christians who live, work and worship in a capital that — at least for now — still feels normal. Kids fidgeted in the pews. Families sang. It wasn’t that different than my parish at home in Spokane, Washington. Yet, at the same time, in the middle belt of Nigeria, Christian farmers went to sleep wondering if armed men would come in the night — if their village would be raided, their church burned, their pastor threatened, their daughters taken, their sons killed, their farms looted. That contrast — peace in the capital, fear in the countryside — is why our congressional delegation came to meet with government officials.

CNN’s State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff, 447K] reports it has been four days the shooting in Minneapolis. The FBI is investigating the circumstances around the shooting but today Department of Homeland Security, former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem joins the show to talk about it. Noem says that the FBI would be better to ask on their investigation but did say she knows that the officer acted on his training to defend himself and his fellow colleagues. She goes on to say that its a tragedy that the family has lost a loved one and our country is dealing with this situation. "That’s why we need our leaders to turn down their rhetoric. We need individuals and elected leaders in Minnesota to start partnering with us, so that we can do law enforcement operations on the streets to protect the citizens that live there." Noem states.

CNN’s State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff, 447K] reports Noem says that she had just been in Minneapolis with the officers and seen what they faced on the streets everyday. She says she got the facts as soon as the incident happened and had gotten faces along with seeing videos before she ever went to talk to the press. " Trump administration and President Trump is the most transparent and open government that we have ever had. Give the public the information, give them what they need to know about a situation, so they can have the truth as soon as possible." Noem comments.

FOX News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff] reports Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discusses the protests disrupting ICE operations in Minneapolis, the Democrats’ failed leadership in Minnesota and more on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’

CNN’s State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff, 447K] reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reacts to the Secretary Noem invoking him by name. Frey said Noem was saying some wild and crazy stuff. "It sounds like she doesn’t believe a single word that she is saying right now. And I don’t know, if Donald Trump was drinking a glass of water, if she’d actually be able to speak, because here’s the thing. She’s calling Minneapolis, like, this dystopian hellhole. You know how many shootings we’ve had so far this year? Two. And one of them was ICE. Two shootings in a large city so far this entire year, and one of them is ICE. This is a safe city. ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making it far less safe." Frey states. Noem said that the ICE agent feared for his life. Brian O’hara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Police Chief, had this to say "I will be the first one to stand up for my cops when a situation happens and it is abundantly clear that there’s no indication to think that an officer could have possibly done anything else. I will be the first one to stand up and say, my cop put their lives on the line and they did what they have to do, and I have no reason to think that it wasn’t anything other than our policy and lawful. But I think we have to use caution, even as Tom Homan has said, and allow a full and impartial investigation to proceed."

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos [1/11/2026 11:42 AM, Staff, 2048K] reports Mayor Frey say that what he sees in those videos is Renee Good trying to leave and that the ICE officer was not run over by a car. He said flatly, that did not happen. Smith says she agrees with seeing Renee trying to get out of the scene. "I think what we are seeing here is the federal government, Kristi Noem, Vice President Vance, Donald Trump, attempt to cover up what happened here in the Twin Cities. And I don’t think that people here and around the country are believing it. I mean, I can tell you what is going on right now in my community, in the, you know, days after Renee Good was shot and killed. There is just chaos with ICE agents grabbing American citizens, detaining them, arresting them, and as we’ve seen, shooting and killing them. And this deportation campaign of the Trump administration is hurting our public safety here in the Twin Cities. And it is dangerous. And it must stop." Smith states.

CBS’ Face The Nation [1/11/2026 11:37 AM, Staff, 1292K] reports the Trump administration is actively telling the public that journalists are misleading them. What we know is that Renee Macklin Good and her partner were protesters. They were driving around Minneapolis. They were recording what some of these ICE enforcement officers were doing. And the local police chief says Macklin Good blocked the street with her car. President Trump has said that the partner was a paid agitator. That’s the phrase he used. Secretary Noem alleged this was an act of terrorism. Given how much heat there is and the administration’s scrutiny, should Americans be told it’s too dangerous to demonstrate and to go out and document, as she was doing? "I think it is really important for Americans to record, to create the level of accountability and transparency that we need. What we have seen in Minneapolis is ICE agents oftentimes jumping out of their cars. These are unmarked cars. Oftentimes, they’re wearing a mask. They’re approaching, running towards cars. They’re pulling people out of those cars. Oftentimes, these people are citizens. Oftentimes, these people have documentation of their legal right to be in this country. And we know that DHS has lied repeatedly when it comes to these accounts, so it is even more important for there to be recording from eyewitnesses every single time these actions are taking place." Representative Ilhan Omar states.

NBC’s Meet the Press [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff] reports White House Border Czar Tom Homan talks about the ICE agents point of view video. "Look, it’s tragic. And I’ve said, from March, if the hateful rhetoric doesn’t decline, there’s going to be bloodshed. I’ve seen this movie before. And unfortunately, I was right. And there’s been a lot of bloodshed. But look, you know, you’ve got to put yourself in the mind of the officer, right? You’re in a city where there’s protest, interference, impediment, like these two ladies were doing before this instance occurred. You’re in a city where law enforcement response is sporadic, at best. You got threats up over 1,300%, actual assault on ICE officers. You got a woman behind the wheel of a 4,000-pound vehicle, revving her engine, going towards you. I truly believe this officer, in his mind, though his life was in danger, which allows him to use lethal force. Now, I’ll say this. Let the investigation play out, right? There’s a lot of video. We probably haven’t seen it. The FBI has it. We don’t. Where’s the forensics and the ballistics? That hasn’t been outreached. How about the officer’s statements, his own statements? So we need to let this play out. But while we’re doing that, we’ve got to stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It’s just ridiculous. And it’s just going to infuriate people more, which means there’s going to be more incidents like this because the hateful rhetoric is not only continuing, now has tripled down and doubled down." Homan states.

NBC’s Meet the Press [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff] reports the woman who was shot and killed is being labeled a domestic terrorist. Is anyone who protest ICE a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the administration? Homan says he can’t say that. "I can’t say that. You know, it’s a case-by-case basis. But, you know, if you look up the definition of terrorism, is there violence, is there a threat of violence based on an ideology that wants to change the way the government does what we do? Look on the definition of terrorism." Homan comments. When asked if Noem was correct to label Renee a domestic terrorist Homan said he doesn’t know what Noem knows. "I don’t know what Secretary Noem knows and what I know. I can tell you what they did is illegal. And if you look up this definition of terrorism, it could fall within that definition, if you look up the definition of terrorism." Homan states.

FOX News Sunday [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff] reports Border czar Tom Homan reveals his assessment of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting, discusses the Trump administration’s immigration policy and more on ‘Fox News Sunday.’

NBC’s Meet the Press [1/11/2026 12:51 PM, Staff] reports the Trump administration arguing ICE officer Jonathan Ross was acting in self-defense. Mayor Jacob Frey says has now seen the officer’s cell phone video. This is his response, "In the immediacy following the shooting, you heard people from the Trump administration saying that the victim was a domestic terrorist. You heard that the ICE agent was acting entirely in self-defense. And here’s the thing: You don’t need to take my word for it. You don’t need to take their word for it. Watch the video. The ICE agent was not run over, as Trump stated. You had a person that was definitively trying to just get out of there. They were trying to leave the scene. That is not a person that’s trying to run an ICE agent over. You have a person that is trying to protect our city, to look out for our neighbors. And by the way, there are 435,000 people throughout Minneapolis that are looking out for their neighbors right now because they understand the magnitude of this moment. And they understand that the endurance of our republic depends on us looking out for each other. And we’re standing strong here in Minneapolis."

New York Times [1/12/2026 3:19 AM, Michael Gold, 330K] reports the day after an immigration officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, the Trump administration reinstated limits preventing lawmakers from making unannounced visits to immigration facilities, according to a court filing made public over the weekend. In a memo dated Thursday, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that she would once again require lawmakers to give seven days’ notice before conducting oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Ms. Noem’s new guidelines on lawmaker visits are virtually identical to a policy that a federal judge halted last month after ruling that it appeared to violate a provision of the appropriations law that funds ICE. But Ms. Noem said that she would bypass that ruling by using another source: the injection of funds given to the agency through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Trump’s signature domestic policy law, which more than tripled ICE’s annual budget. Ms. Noem’s memo, filed in court on Saturday, is all but certain to further stoke the conflict between Democrats and the Trump administration over its deportation push. As federal officials have increased immigration enforcement efforts, they have been met with increasingly hostile protests, including in Minneapolis, where an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, 37. Ms. Good’s killing provoked a widespread outcry and protests across the United States, and intensified ongoing demonstrations in Minneapolis. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said that Ms. Noem issued the new limitations directly in response to that rising unrest, which she referred to as “escalating riots and political violence.” Democrats, who had sued the department over the earlier guidance, vowed to challenge Ms. Noem’s new policy in court. Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado, a party to the lawsuit, called the memo “ a clear attempt to subvert the ruling” made last month. Federal immigration officials on Saturday used Ms. Noem’s guidance to deny Representatives Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Kelly Morrison, all Minnesota Democrats, from entering a detention facility in Minneapolis. The three lawmakers said that they were stopped after having initially been granted access to the building, with federal officials citing the new guidance. “This is a blatant disregard of the law,” Ms. Omar told reporters on Saturday. Ms. McLaughlin said that the lawmakers had led a group of protesters to the facility and that they were “out of compliance with existing court orders and policies.” Democratic lawmakers across the country have been turned away from ICE facilities repeatedly over the past year as they have tried to conduct oversight visits. “It is our job as members of Congress to make sure that those folks detained are treated with humanity,” Ms. Craig said. In her memo filed last week, Ms. Noem characterized the visits as “circuslike publicity stunts” that pulled immigration officers away from more important duties.

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New York Times [1/11/2026 10:05 AM, Jazmine Ulloa and Campbell Robertson, 135475K] reports that, on an icy Friday morning, Mahad Omar watched armed federal agents run down the street and tackle one of his neighbors to the ground. They handcuffed the man and put him inside a black-tinted S.U.V. Mr. Omar, 28, an Uber driver, immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago. He had never imagined seeing something like that in his community. “Minneapolis is a great city,” Mr. Omar said after the agents had left and residents emerged from their homes to discuss in hushed voices what they had seen from their yards and windows. Several women wept. “It’s never been like this,”said Mr. Omar, one of thousands of Somalis who fled civil war in their country and came to the United States through a federal refugee program, many of them settling in Minnesota. Cities around the country have taken their turn in the glare of President Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign, and now Minneapolis is the focus. The federal crackdown, triggered in large part by a viral video purporting to show widespread fraud at Somali-run day care centers, is concentrated among the city’s Somali-Americans. Somali residents, lawmakers and civic leaders in Minneapolis and beyond say they have been accustomed for decades to being treated with suspicion for being Black, immigrant or Muslim. But the disparagement from Mr. Trump and his allies, both in his first term and now, has solidified into a more direct rhetorical attack on them. Now, many said, they feel targeted simply for being Somali. “Maybe they got tired of attacking Muslims,” Imam Yusuf Abdulle, director of the Islamic Association of North America, which oversees more than three dozen Islamic centers and groups across the country. “Now, they have another name, another reason,” he said, citing Vice President JD Vance’s use of the words “the Somali problem.” Most Somali Americans in Minneapolis say that in recent weeks they have been subject to a level of intense scrutiny far beyond anything that had come before. The tensions ratcheted up further last week after a federal agent shot and killed a woman, Renee Nicole Good, at the wheel of her S.U.V., which was partially blocking a lane in a Minneapolis neighborhood. The killing has ignited protests nationwide, but has evidently not diverted the federal pressure in Minneapolis from its focus on Somalis. Representative Ilhan Omar, who in 2018 became the first Somali-American elected to Congress, spoke on Saturday morning outside a federal building in Minneapolis, where she said she and two other congressional Democrats were denied full entry to inspect the detainee holding area. “He’s trying to scare them and terrorize them every single day,” she said. “And what we know is that Somalis are not intimidated.”

The Hill [1/11/2026 4:09 PM, Sarah Fortinsky, 12595K] reports Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is pushing back against calls from some Democrats to freeze funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even if it were to result in another government shutdown. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed concern about the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old American citizen by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday, but he resisted suggestions to use the government funding deadline at the end of this month as the point of leverage. “Listen, I think we went through the longest government shutdown in American history last year. I don’t think we need to repeat it,” Warner said, when asked if he would support a push to freeze funding for ICE ahead of the funding deadline. The record-long government shutdown ended on Nov. 13 after 43 days when a handful of Democrats joined Republicans in voting for their continuing resolution to extend the funding deadline. Democrats had been insisting on negotiating an extension of enhanced health care subsidies, which were slated to expire at the end of 2025, before offering support for the GOP bill. Ahead of the new Jan. 30 funding deadline, Congress is racing to adopt three appropriations packages to avoid another shutdown. One of those packages will include funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and some Democrats want to withhold their support for that bill to demand new limits on President Trump’s deportation forces nationwide. Others, like Warner, are less inclined to plunge into a repeat of the politically fraught battle. But the Virginia Democrat said he’s optimistic about the potential for cooperation across the aisle in Congress, pointing to the recent war powers resolution supported by some Republicans in Congress. “I do think we need to go ahead and get our appropriations bills done, keep the government operating,” he said. “And I do hope — and I think we’re starting to see a little bit of splintering when my good friend Senator Tim Kaine got the war powers resolution passed in the Senate the other day.” “Finally, Republicans are starting to find their spine and saying, you know what, Congress has got to provide some level of check on Donald Trump,” he said. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [1/11/2026 10:26 AM, Pam Key, 2416K] reports Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said President Donald Trump is setting up "Orwellian" circumstances by sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers into communities. Host Jake Tapper said, "I want to turn to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. You have said that all the facts need to come out, that everyone needs to be held accountable. There are Democrats, Democratic officials who have just declared that this was a murder.". He asked, "Do you have any issues with them calling it a murder?". Warner said, "Listen, I’ve got issues with any public official, including the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, calling it domestic terrorism. I’m a little bit old-fashioned. When an American citizen is killed by a federal law enforcement official, we ought to let the investigation take place without jumping to conclusions. I mean, that’s what our system’s about. But I do think there are concerns. One, we’ve got, you know, remember, we’re beefing up ICE, 10,000 more agents. They are not getting the traditional five months of training. Literally, Jake, the training for the ICE agents now is 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump is the 47th president. And the idea of going into neighborhoods and going after folks is not traditional ICE training. I think this is kind of an Orwellian circumstance where we’ve got cities on edge all across America. We wanted the border shut down. Right, I agree with that. But sending ICE agents into community after community, where they’re perhaps not fully trained, puts us in, again, uncharted territory and not something I think the vast majority of American people want.".

The Hill [1/11/2026 1:38 PM, Tara Suter, 12595K] reports Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) went after the Trump administration on Sunday for its handling of immigration operations, saying “the way in which [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is operating today is inhumane and illegal.” “Of course, you need a domestic enforcement mechanism for the immigration laws of this country, but the way in which ICE is operating today is inhumane and illegal. They rounded up a 16-year-old kid in Meriden, Conn., weeks before he was about to graduate, in the country legally, put him in detention for six months,” Murphy told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “And he got let out right before Christmas because the administration wouldn’t even show up in court to defend what they had done. And that is happening thousands of times over in this country. Peaceful, legal immigrants being put in detention. That’s not a system that anybody in this country wants to fund,” he added The Connecticut Democrat’s comments follow an ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis, an incident that has caused mass outrage. In response to the video of the shooting last week, Murphy said on the social platform X that his party “cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” referring to the Department of Homeland Security. Anger toward the Trump administration over its immigration agenda was present throughout President Trump’s first year back in office, but it exploded after Renee Nicole Macklin Good’s killing in Minneapolis last week. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Macklin Good was committing “domestic terrorism.” “I want to connect the dots. The rush to call Renee Good a terrorist, the rewriting of Jan 6th – it’s all part of Trump’s campaign to use violence to protect his power,” Murphy said Thursday on X. Murphy’s Democratic colleague in the Senate, Sen. Tina Smith (Minn.), on Sunday said she believes the Trump administration is attempting to “cover up” the woman’s shooting by promoting a narrative prior to the completion of a full investigation. “I think what we are seeing here is the federal government, Kristi Noem, Vice President Vance, Donald Trump, attempt to cover up what happened here in the Twin Cities. And I don’t think that people here and around the country are believing it,” Smith said on ABC News’s “This Week.” The Hill has reached out to ICE and the White House for comment. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [1/11/2026 12:12 PM, Pam Key, 2416K] reports Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been acting inhumanely and illegally. Murphy said, "There have already been over a dozen shootings all across our country by ICE officers. The bottom line is that the way in which DHS is conducting itself today is making our communities less safe. It’s not adding to public safety.". Host Kristen Welker said, "You posted online earlier this week, quote, Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency. You obviously know government funding runs out in less than three weeks. Are you actually willing to shut down the government over these DHS proposals?". Murphy said, "I mean, the question is for Republicans, are they willing to shut down the government simply to endorse the most lawless Department of Homeland Security in the history of the country? Both parties come to a discussion on the budget with priorities. And let me just give you an example of what we’re talking about. The amount of training that is given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration.". Welker said, "But you’re not ruling out a potential government shutdown over this battle for DHS reforms.". Murphy said, "That’s a decision for Republicans. But you don’t rule it out. They control the House, the Senate and the presidency.". He added, "The way in which ICE is operating today is inhumane and illegal.".

USA Today [1/11/2026 3:13 PM, James Powel, 67103K] reports a majority of Americans say they disapprove of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement is "handling their job" in a poll conducted on the day ICE removal officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. The YouGov poll, conducted on Jan. 7 and released the following day, showed that 40% of respondents "strongly disapproved" and 12% "somewhat disapprove" of how the agency is operating. A separate poll from YouGov asking respondents to describe how they would describe "the tactics currently used by ICE" released Jan. 8 showed that 51% said they were "too forceful." The polls each surveyed 2,686 U.S. adults. A YouGov poll taken in February 2025, just after President Donald Trump took office, showed ICE had a net favorability of 16 percentage points. The killing of Good and the injury of two people by Customs and Border Protection agents in Portland, Oregon on Jan. 8 sparked a wave of protests across the country that started Jan. 10. The Department of Homeland Security and Trump administration officials have claimed both shootings were done in self-defense. Analysis of video from the scene of the shooting in Minneapolis done by New York Times shows Good’s vehicle appeared to be turning away from the officer. Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina, previously told USA TODAY a full investigation into the killing of Good is needed, but said the video appears to contradict the Trump administration’s description of the incident. "It clearly looks like she was driving away," Alpert said. "She turned her wheel and looked like she was trying to escape." Local officials in Minnesota and Oregon have called for state investigations into both shootings. The shootings in the first full week of 2026 were the latest involving federal agents under the Trump administration’s aggressive – and often contentious approach – to immigration enforcement. Trump ran on a promise to enforce mass deportations and has deployed heavily-armed federal agents to cities to carry out his plans. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Politico [1/11/2026 7:00 AM, By Daniel Han and Shia Kapos, 13586K] reports blue state lawmakers have had it with ICE. State legislatures across the country are accelerating efforts to shape immigration enforcement policy after the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by a federal agent, raising tensions between local leaders and the Trump administration. From California to New York and Illinois to New Jersey, they’re pushing a range of bills aimed at limiting enforcement and protecting people targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while turning up the rhetoric with comparisons to the Gestapo. Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week. But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states. New York state Sen. Pat Fahy, who sponsored a bill that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks and one that would create a state dashboard tracking immigration officials’ activity, said “momentum is on our side.” “To me, this goes beyond immigration,” she said. “People understand now that masked, armed men in our city and suburban streets [are] seriously eroding any form of public trust in law enforcement. Some of these issues are having more universal appeal.” Trump administration officials have long opposed local Democratic leaders restricting cooperation with ICE. They have sued local governments over “sanctuary” policies — when local police limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities — and tried to link those policies to federal funding. President Donald Trump and other administration officials have also said the agent who shot Good acted in self defense — an account that has been contested by local Minneapolis officials. In a statement to POLITICO, White House Spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended ICE activity and pushed back against state Democratic lawmakers. “ICE officers are facing a massive increase in assaults against them because of dangerous, untrue smears from elected Democrats,” Jackson said. “ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities with the utmost professionalism. Anyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals are simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens.” State leaders are pursuing different policy responses – but the throughline is that federal immigration authorities may find themselves with headaches in some blue states if the proposals become law. In Illinois, a Democratic state senator has filed legislation that would bar anyone hired by ICE under Trump from obtaining employment in state or local law enforcement. In conservative Tennessee, a lawmaker has filed legislation that would prohibit federal immigration enforcement actions on school property. And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul signaled she’ll support legislation that would allow residents to bring civil lawsuits against federal immigration officials for constitutional violations. Across the Hudson River, New Jersey lawmakers are pushing to codify the state’s practice that limits state and local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities; bar the government and hospitals from collecting immigration information; and set up guidelines on how health care facilities, schools and other institutions should respond to federal immigration authorities. The suite of bills — which started advancing before the Minnesota shooting — could be on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk this upcoming week.

Washington Post [1/12/2026 5:00 AM, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Teo Armus, Erin Patrick O’Connor, and Robert Klemko, 24149K] reports while patrolling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement with other volunteers, two days after an officer from the federal agency fatally shot a woman in her car in this city, Sagal Ali repeated a mantra: “We will not obstruct their path. We are not escalating.” A text chat alerted her group while driving on Friday that ICE was near Soma Grill and Deli. They drove over to find officers circling the restaurant, masked, in an unmarked SUV. Blowing whistles from open car windows to notify the neighborhood, the group made eye contact with the officers in their vehicle, then tailed them until they left. As the Trump administration deploys thousands of federal immigration officers and agents around the nation, a loose-knit but increasingly organized network of activists is tracking their whereabouts and documenting arrests. Federal court rulings say citizens can observe and record police activity in public areas as part of their First Amendment rights, and many of the observers are doing nothing more than that. They say that they believe authorities are less likely to use force if someone is recording and that they are providing a public service by letting their communities know when federal immigration officers are nearby. But as officers and agents employ aggressive tactics, some activists have blown whistles to warn community members of approaching law enforcement, tried to follow immigration enforcement vehicles or used their own cars to block the roadways — entering murkier legal territory. Some legal experts said such behavior could in theory justify obstruction-of-justice charges, but they added that any such prosecution would be unusual. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but officials there and throughout the administration have vowed to prosecute anyone who interferes with an operation or endangers an officer. Agency spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin has said Good was “stalking” ICE officers before she was killed, and McLaughlin has told reporters that recording and posting images of officers online amounts to “doxing” at a time when they face a growing number of threats.

Daily Caller [1/11/2026 3:01 PM, Harold Hutchison, 835K] reports Democratic Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "fake law enforcement" and threatened them with arrest, during a Thursday news conference. An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good on Wednesday while carrying out an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, prompting even more increased hostility toward the agency among many on the political left. Bilal praised Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner of Philadelphia, who vowed to prosecute ICE agents who allegedly committed crimes in his jurisdiction in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting. "Let note that law enforcement professionals, real ones, not the fake made up ICE, probably Trump’s new army to attack citizens of the United States. Did you hear what I said? No law enforcement professional wears a mask. None! None!" Bilal claimed during a three-minute rant. "Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime, I thank God for our District Attorney, Larry Krasner, who said he’s going to lock them up, and I’m saying now, we are not going to whisk you away for them to hide your identity, because when you do it there, you’re getting arrested there. No whisk away for them to hide you. None of that here. None of that here.". "Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles. Not saying fleeing, because she [Good] wasn’t fleeing. She was getting out of the way. Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles invoking an action that is illegal. No, we don’t," Bilal continued. "And so we stand here today with all those who stand against the made up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement — I don’t call them none of that. I call them made up, fake, wannabe law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law.". Video taken on a cell phone by the ICE agent who fired the fatal shots showed Good appearing to back up her car and looking right at the agent before she accelerated towards him after her wife shouted, "Drive, baby drive!" as other ICE agents attempted to detain her. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem told Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday that she had seen videos of the incident before a Wednesday press conference where she declared the agent acted in self-defense. "I’m with the DA [Krasner], and we will work with him. If any of them [ICE Agents] want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off," Bilal said. "You don’t want this smoke, because we will bring it to you. And the fake, whatever they call them, because I can’t say the name, but the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail.".

Daily Wire [1/11/2026 9:19 AM, Virginia Kruta, 2494K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons fired back on Saturday at the Philadelphia Sheriff who’d threatened to arrest ICE agents, telling her to go ahead and "try it, see what happens.". Lyons addressed Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s comments directly during an appearance on "The Big Weekend Show" on Fox News, saying that Bilal was only feeding into the already dangerous situation ICE agents were facing every day by pitting local law enforcement against federal law enforcement. Todd Lyons: "You can’t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer … My message to the Sheriff is try it, try to arrest my folks. Let’s see what happens." "Any time you pit law enforcement officers against law enforcement officers, it makes nobody safe," Lyons said. "This is the exact type of political rhetoric that I’ve been seeing ever since I had the opportunity to be the ICE Director … this increased rhetoric is what’s causing the issues right now. You can’t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer. We are out there trying to do a lawful law enforcement mission, and this rhetoric right here is a pure example of what we’re facing every day.". Lyons went on to say that he wasn’t normally one to engage in public bluster, but his message to the sheriff was simple: "Try it, try to arrest my folks. Let’s see what happens.". Bilal tore into ICE a day earlier, claiming that federal agents were the ones committing crimes when they moved to enforce federal immigration law. "Those that come into our communities wearing masks to commit crime—and thank God for our District Attorney Larry Krasner, who says he’s gonna lock them up … you’re getting arrested … we stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up fake, what you can call ICE," she said. "Professional law enforcement? I’m not calling none of that. I call them made-up, fake wanna-be law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law but moral law … you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off. You don’t want this smoke, because we’ll bring it to you. And the fake, whatever they call them because I can put … I can’t say their name. But the criminal in the White House will not keep you from going to jail.". The Philadelphia Police Department also issued a statement in response to Bilal’s comments, saying that she was not in charge of municipal policing and that the city’s police officers would continue to work in conjunction with other "law enforcement partners" moving forward.

AP [1/11/2026 7:01 PM, John Locher, 4722K] reports immigration arrests and tense confrontations with activists continued Sunday in the Twin Cities. That’s four days after the fatal shooting by an immigration officer of a local woman, Renee Good, who stopped during an enforcement operation. Two Associated Press journalists found several agents on a street in a residential neighborhood in northern Minneapolis. A few dozen neighbors and activists quickly arrived, alerted via one of the messaging groups that have been actively monitoring immigration enforcement activities for months. Some banged drums, others yelled or made obscene gestures at the agents. One agent appeared to indicate to a person to move away from a vehicle, then sprayed the protester with pepper spray. Eventually agents went up to a small house, where they detained a man on a Department of Homeland Security “warrant for arrest of alien,” and drove him away, weeping. People in the house came outside in short sleeves in subfreezing weather, crying in each other’s arms. They declined to comment.

Breitbart [1/11/2026 12:55 PM, Lowell Cauffiel, 2416K] reports in an apparent attempt to dampen anger over federal immigration surges in Minnesota and elsewhere, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released a sobering list of killers and child rapists from all over the world arrested during operations in the sanctuary state. This list, complete with headshots and criminal biographies, was released to Fox News over the weekend, authorities telling the outlet they "are the type of people Democratic politicians and activists are referring to as their ‘neighbors’ as they attempt to interfere with ICE.". White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reposted an X entry by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin with the list of the "most egregious," with the secretary writing, "This is why we have ICE Agents. May God Bless them for their thankless work to protect American communities from these sick people.". All the perpetrators on the list have been convicted of crimes ranging from homicides to rape and sodomy of young teenage girls — yet reportedly were allowed to roam free in Minnesota. "Regardless of staged political theatrics, ICE is going to continue to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota and elsewhere," ICE Director Todd M. Lyons told Fox. "Some of these criminal aliens have had final orders of removal for 30 years, but they’ve been free to terrorize Minnesotans.". "ICE’s arrests prevent recidivism and make communities safer, but it feels like local politicians want to ignore that part and drum up discontent rather than protect their own constituents," he added.

New York Post [1/11/2026 3:01 PM, Chris Nesi, 42219K] reports the Trump administration has arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens since kicking off the largest immigration enforcement operation ever deployed in Minneapolis — including monsters convicted of heinous crimes like murder, sodomy, and raping children. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced the latest round-up of what it called "the worst criminal offenders in the world" while blasting local officials for upholding policies that have made the Twin Cities a magnet for vicious predators. "Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are encouraging this behavior with their rhetoric of lawlessness, while their sanctuary policies continue to ensure that the worst of the worst criminal alien offenders flock to their state in a vain attempt to escape justice," ICE wrote in a statement. The agency — which sent over 2,000 officers to Minneapolis in the last week alone — also hit out at "violent rioters and agitators" for trying to protect such criminals by "interfering and obstructing" ICE operations.

Daily Caller [1/11/2026 12:00 PM, Jason Hopkins, 835K] reports despite Democrats’ raging against the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are continuing to arrest illegal migrant child rapists and killers in Minnesota. Amid their enforcement surge, federal immigration authorities are nabbing "the worst of the worst" criminal illegal migrants all across the Land of 10,000 Lakes, according to ICE Director Todd Lyons. While deportation officers nab gruesome individuals throughout Minnesota, high-profile Democratic politicians are publicly demanding they leave immediately. "Regardless of staged political theatrics, ICE is going to continue to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota and elsewhere," Lyons said in a public statement. "Some of these criminal aliens have had final orders of removal for 30 years, but they’ve been free to terrorize Minnesotans.". "ICE’s arrests prevent recidivism and make communities safer, but it feels like local politicians want to ignore that part and drum up discontent rather than protect their own constituents," the agency chief continued. Among those recently arrested include Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian criminal illegal migrant convicted of both "strongarm sodomy" of a boy and girl and a slate of other crimes, and Tou Vang, a Laotian criminal illegal migrant convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under the age of 13 and procuring a child for prostitution, according to ICE. Both men have outstanding final orders of removal that date back several years. Chong Vue, an illegal migrant from Laos convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her, was also taken into custody by ICE, according to the agency. Pao Choua Xiong, another criminal illegal migrant from Laos nabbed by deportation officers, was previously convicted of rape and fondling a child, and has had an outstanding order of removal since 2003. Federal immigration authorities also arrested Mexican national Gabriel Figueroa Gama, Somali national Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, Salvadoran national Gilberto Salguero Landaverde, Sudanese national Galuak Michael Rotgai, Sierra Leonean national Mariama Sia Kanu, and Laotian national Thai Lor, according to ICE. All individuals are criminal illegal migrants previously convicted of homicide.

AP [1/11/2026 9:49 PM, Rebecca Santana, Mike Householder, and Mark Vancleave, 31753K] reports federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation. Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area. Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge. More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement. Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.” “That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said. Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn’t be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”

FOX News [1/11/2026 12:24 PM, Anders Hagstrom, 40621K] reports Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., says she and other Minnesota lawmakers were kicked out of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis on Saturday. Omar visited ICE’s Whipple Building alongside fellow Minnesota Democrat Rep. Angie Craig, saying they were fulfilling their congressional oversight role. They were asked to leave the facility after being informed about a new Trump administration rule governing lawmaker visits. "We were initially invited in to do our congressional oversight and to exercise our Article I duties," Omar told reporters after the incident. "When we made it in, it was with the authorization of someone who’s been here for a really long time, who understood that we had a congressional duty to enter the building and see the facility.". "Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building and that they were rescinding our invitation and denying any further access to the building," she continued. President Donald Trump’s administration imposed a new rule on Saturday requiring lawmakers to give at least one week’s notice before entering an ICE facility. The move is the administration’s second attempt at such an order. A federal judge previously struck down a similar requirement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, finding that federal spending laws require that members of Congress receive unrestricted access to recipient facilities. Omar said her group was able to briefly question officials inside the facility regarding hygiene for detainees and other topics. She described the answers she received as "insane," and argued officials were downplaying how long detainees remain at the facility. Federal officials say the new order complies with federal law because the funding for the facility is sourced from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act rather than congressional appropriations. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin elaborated on Omar’s removal in a statement to reporters, arguing that the lawmakers entered the facility "with the explicit goal of ‘hunting down’ ICE officers who they believed may have been staying there.".

Houston Chronicle [1/11/2026 4:19 PM, Sondra Hernandez, 2983K] reports in deeply conservative Conroe on Sunday, one of several banners hanging from the Loop 336 North bridge over I-45 encouraged drivers to "Honk to Dump Trump." Car horns rang out as more than 100 supporters of the We Rise Up movement gathered to protest the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Wednesday and to show their displeasure with President Donald Trump. Renee Nicole Good, 37, died after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot her in the head while she was in her car. Since her death, anti-ICE protests and demonstrations have broken out across the country, including several in Houston over the past four days.

The Washington Times [1/11/2026 8:27 AM, Stephen Dinan, 852K] reports a federal judge ruled Saturday that the Trump administration can’t shut down “parole” status for some family reunification migrants, saying the Department of Homeland Security failed to properly notify them of their impending loss of status. The Family Reunification Parole program, which had allowed people from certain nations to remain in the U.S. despite lacking firm legal permission, was supposed to shut down on Jan. 14. They then were to face the possibility of deportation. But U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee to the court in Massachusetts, said the law and Homeland Security’s own policies require a written notice be given to each person losing their parole status. She said that didn’t appear to happen. “Based on a preliminary review of the issue for purposes of a temporary restraining order, the court finds that plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on their argument that the defendants failed to provide proper notice of DHS’s decision to revoke grants of parole under the FRP program,” Judge Talwani wrote. Parole is a special permission to be in the U.S. even though the recipient lacks a legal visa. The Biden administration gave parole to millions of migrants through a series of programs. The Trump administration has moved to shut down those avenues. One is the Family Reunification Program, which grants parole to spouses, siblings or parents who likely had a path to the U.S. based on their relationship to an American citizen or legal permanent resident. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem concluded that the program had failed in its goals, and she ordered it shut down. The Department of Justice said in court filings that the government did give written notice of the termination in the form of a document detailing the decision in the Federal Register. The department also said parolees’ immigration files at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services were updated to reflect the change in the program. But Judge Talwani said the law requires “written notice to the alien.” She said impersonal publication in a government document doesn’t meet that requirement. And she said it’s “not clear” that the change in a USCIS online account also would qualify. Politico [1/11/2026 6:03 PM, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, 13586K] reports that the revocation of family reunification parole comes amid a broader mass deportation campaign that has included the elimination of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have fled countries facing economic strife, war and natural disasters. It also comes amid broader legal pushback against the administration’s abrupt efforts to effect mass deportations, which judges have routinely said has failed to provide adequate due process. When the Trump administration ordered an end to the family reunification parole programs last month, it said about 15,000 people currently have such status. Not all would be immediately impacted by the cancellation since it does not cover those who had pending applications for a different immigration status when the termination was announced. Immigrant rights advocates said they expected 10,000 to 12,000 immigrants would lose legal status this week without action by the court. Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment. One of the lawyers who brought the suit Talwani acted on Saturday, Karen Tumlin of the Justice Action Center, said the judge’s decision comes as “a huge sigh of relief” for families. “While we aren’t in the clear, this immediate pause on de-legalizing individuals who came here with Family Reunification Parole means that people will not be forced to separate from their loved ones next week,” Tumlin said. “We are talking about people who have done everything the U.S. government has asked of them and who, in many cases, are mere weeks or months from finally receiving their green cards. It’s cruel and completely unnecessary for the Trump administration to try to yank the rug out from under them.” Last April, Talwani halted the Trump administration’s plan to end “parole” status, including work permits, for about 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. However, in May, the Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift her order. The court’s majority did not explain its rationale, but two of its liberal members dissented.

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Washington Examiner [1/11/2026 3:16 PM, Jenny Goldsberry, 1394K] reports Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the United States has the capital should the Supreme Court rule in favor of the retail companies seeking refunds for President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Bessent made the assertion in an interview with Reuters. The Trump administration is facing lawsuits from Costco, Kawasaki Motors, Revlon, and Bumble Bee Foods, among others, over the tariffs. These companies are seeking a full refund of the tariffs they have paid to the Trump administration for foreign products, with interest. According to Bessent, the $774 billion the Treasury has on hand will be more than sufficient to pay the refunds should the Supreme Court rule against Trump’s emergency powers. "We’re not talking about the money all goes out in a day. Probably over weeks, months, may take over a year, right?" Bessent said. However, the secretary was doubtful that the court would rule against Trump. Bessent suggested there was "very, very little, if any, pass-through" of tariffs on to customers and questioned whether Costco would pass the refunds on to its customers. "It won’t be a problem if we have to do it, but I can tell you that if it happens, which I don’t think it’s going to, it’s just a corporate boondoggle," Bessent said. Late last year, Costco reported that it asked Customs and Border Protection to include the retailer in liquidated tariff dividends, but the request was denied. In its lawsuit, Costco cited tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China as the reason it paid increased tariffs since Trump signed the executive orders. According to the retailer, these were "unlawfully collected tariffs.".

NBC News [1/11/2026 2:50 AM, Staff, 34509K] reports CBP confronted after questioning man at gas station. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [1/11/2026 11:17 AM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports Border Patrol agents operating under Operation Portland reportedly opened fire while attempting to arrest suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang last week. The shooting followed a chaotic confrontation where the alleged gang-affiliated members weaponized their vehicle against the agents. Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day lost control of his emotions and began to cry as he later defended the operation during a tense news conference. Investigators say agents discharged their weapons after the suspects ignored commands and attempted to flee, sparking a fast‑moving struggle that unfolded in a residential neighborhood already rattled by rising gang activity. The shooting immediately intensified scrutiny on the law enforcement tactics, setting the stage for the chief’s emotional collapse as reporters pressed him on the department’s handling of the encounter. Fox News reported that Chief Day "wiped away tears" during Friday’s news conference, where he confirmed Department of Homeland Security reports that suspects Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras were tied to the foreign terrorist organization known as Tren de Aragua. Moncada, the reported driver of the vehicle, allegedly "weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the agents. "They do have some nexus to involvement with TdA. We can confirm that," Day reported. He then admitted he hesitated about reporting the connection to the terrorist organization, TdA. Independent journalist David Madina confronted a Portland police officer as law enforcement stood by and allowed protesters to violate the law during a street-takover protest.

Breitbart [1/12/2026 12:14 AM, Staff, 2416K] reports a “suspicious object” was found by U.S. Secret Service agents during an inspection of Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday, the White House said, as President Donald Trump was to depart from his Florida estate for Washington. The unidentified object was discovered by the Secret Service during an advanced sweep of the airport prior to Trump’s arrival, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in a statement. “A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,” she said. Trump had been in Palm Beach since Friday night and departed for Washington on Sunday evening, arriving on the South Lawn of the White House at 9:12 p.m. EST via Joint Base Andrews, Md. Asked by reporters about the object aboard Air Force One, Trump replied: “I know nothing about it.”

FOX News [1/11/2026 8:12 PM, Greg Wehner, 40621K] reports a suspicious object discovered during a security sweep at Palm Beach International Airport ahead of President Donald Trump’s departure from Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Sunday prompted the U.S. Secret Service to adjust the presidential motorcade route, the White House said. The discovery did not disrupt Trump’s travel schedule, officials said, as agents evaluated the item and made security adjustments out of an abundance of caution. "During advance sweeps of PBI Airport, a suspicious object was discovered by USSS," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly." The latest security concern follows a separate incident months earlier, when the U.S. Secret Service discovered a suspicious hunting stand positioned with a direct line of sight to where Trump exits Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport. That find was made in October, when agents located the elevated stand but did not find anyone in the surrounding area. "Prior to the President’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone," FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital at the time. "No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene, and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities." A law enforcement source later told Fox News Digital the stand appeared to have been in place for "months" before it was discovered. The hunting stand incident came just weeks after Ryan Routh was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump on his Palm Beach golf course, where prosecutors said he had established a sniper’s nest hidden in bushes along a fence line. That case followed an earlier assassination attempt in which Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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CNN [1/11/2026 8:28 AM, Sean Lyngaas, 606K] reports that since early December, the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned. They were all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term. On Friday the US boarded its fifth ship, although this time Trump announced that it would be returned to Venezuela to offload oil there. The Olina, previously called the Minerva M, was "on its way back to Venezuela" he wrote on social media, saying that proceeds would be part of an energy deal he is negotiating with the interim government. The seizure of ships is part of what Trump has termed a "blockade" of sanctioned vessels, a strategy that began before the US military operation that extracted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from Caracas and brought him to New York where he faces drug trafficking charges. The other four ships that US troops have boarded remain in US control, with one near the port of Houston and the other three being escorted by US ships. Here’s the process, according to experts, that the US undertakes when considering seizing a ship, how it takes control of the vessel, and what it does next: How do US forces typically seize a ship? A team of elite Coast Guard personnel, along with those from different Pentagon components, is typically responsible for boarding and seizing the oil tankers, according to Aaron Roth, a retired Coast Guard captain who helped set up one of those elite units. That’s when an interagency process known as the Maritime Operational Threat Response kicks into gear. Established after 9/11 to deal with drugs, piracy and terrorism, the MOTR is how the Pentagon, White House, and departments of Homeland Security (home to the Coast Guard) and Justice, among other agencies, figure out which port the seized vessel will be led to and whether its crew will be taken into custody. That process can take time. "I’ve been on vessels … where we sit on them for five or six days," said Roth, who now leads federal security and strategy at the Chertoff Group. To take control of the five ships as part of the operation related to Venezuela, both Coast Guard and US Navy personnel have been used for boarding ships, along with other military assets and allied country support for operations. Four of the five ships have not resisted boarding, while the fifth, the Bella 1, was chased across the Atlantic by a Coast Guard cutter before being boarded off of Greenland. The ship changed its name and country of registration before it was boarded by US Navy Seals flown onto the ship by US Army helicopter crews. The Trump administration has released video from several of the seizure operations showing troops dropping from ropes onto the decks of ships as part of boarding operations.

Washington Post [1/11/2026 5:46 PM, Praveena Somasundaram, 24149K] reports Mississippi officials on Saturday arrested a suspect and charged them with arson in a fire that charred a prominent Jackson synagogue, the city’s only Jewish house of worship and the target of a Ku Klux Klan bombing decades ago when the congregation was pushing for racial integration. The blaze at Beth Israel Congregation began around 3 a.m. Saturday, destroying Torah scrolls and burning significant parts of the building, before firefighters extinguished it, according to Jackson Fire Department Chief Charles Felton. The synagogue was closed at the time, and no one was injured in the fire. In a later news release, the fire department said the suspect sustained non-life-threatening burns and was arrested at the hospital. Officials have not identified the suspect or disclosed a motive. Felton said authorities are certain it was an act of arson because fire investigators found that the fire could not have been started “without human involvement.” The suspect is facing an arson charge in Mississippi, and the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which are also probing the incident, are considering opening a federal case, Felton told Washington Post. Given the damage to the synagogue, the congregation will not be able to hold services there “for an extended time period,” Felton said. Beth Israel’s congregation president, Zach Shemper, said the congregation was still assessing the damage to the building but would continue services elsewhere in the meantime. “We are a resilient people,” Shemper said in a statement Sunday. “With the support from community, we will rebuild.” Photos of the damage shared with local media drew swift and sharp condemnations from officials and Jewish organizations across the country. In the past year, similarly staggering images have emerged from an arson attack at the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), who is Jewish; an attack where molotov cocktails were thrown at a gathering in Colorado to support Israeli hostages in Gaza; a shooting that killed a young couple at the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C.; and a shooting attack on a Jewish holiday event in Australia that left more than a dozen dead. Jackson Mayor John Horhn (D) said the city would work with authorities to “hold accountable anyone who tried to spread fear and hate here.” “Targeting people because of their faith, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is morally wrong, and un-American, and completely incompatible with the values of this city,” he said. Before dawn on Saturday, the flames began in the synagogue’s library. Firefighters wrangled the fire for two hours before bringing it “completely under control,” according to Felton. In its wake, the blaze left smoke damage across the temple, including in its sanctuary, Felton said. FBI Jackson Division spokeswoman Marshay Lawson declined to comment on the investigation, which she said is still in its early stages and being coordinated with the U.S. attorney’s office. She said the FBI will “most likely” provide an update Monday. The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL), which has operated out of Beth Israel for five years, said no staff would work from the building for the time being.

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Houston Chonicle [1/12/2026 5:01 AM, Bengamine Wermund, 3000K] reports when Gov. Greg Abbott designated a Muslim civil rights group as a terrorist threat last fall, he pointed to its relationship with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a key reason. In 2008, the FBI began restricting contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations after it was identified as one of more than 200 groups and individuals with ties to a charity accused of funneling money to Hamas. Abbott said the group’s actions to “support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.” CAIR is now pushing back with new information, not only disputing that it had any involvement with terrorist activity but saying it has actively helped officials thwart attacks — including alerting the FBI to a potential threat against President Donald Trump during his first term.

FOX News [1/11/2026 6:00 PM, Julia Bonavita, 40621K] reports the early-morning arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sent shockwaves around the world, marking the most consequential move by the United States in its war against the dictator’s notorious "Cartel of the Suns.". Maduro was indicted alongside his wife, Cilia Flores, son and three alleged co-conspirators with federal gun and narcotics trafficking charges. The case, which mirrors original charges filed in the Southern District of New York in 2020, adds charges against Flores and was filed under seal last month. Maduro is facing four charges, including narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. Federal prosecutors allege that for years, the Cartel of the Suns – or "Cartel de los Soles" – has worked in tandem with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) under Maduro’s leadership to execute a complex and large-scale cocaine trafficking network to funnel narcotics into the U.S. "The Venezuelan regime, once led by Nicolás Maduro Moros, remains plagued by criminality and corruption," then-Attorney General William Barr said in a 2020 news release. "For more than 20 years, Maduro and a number of high-ranking colleagues allegedly conspired with the FARC, causing tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities." U.S. officials’ war against Venezuela’s trafficking empire dates back to 1996, after the country was deemed one of the largest drug transit hubs within the Western Hemisphere, according to a 2009 report published by the United States Government Accountability Office.

NewsMax [1/11/2026 10:42 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports Secretary of ⁠State Marco Rubio spoke with Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente on Sunday, days after President Donald Trump threatened land strikes on drug cartels that he ⁠said were running Mexico. "Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente to discuss the need for stronger cooperation to dismantle ⁠Mexico’s violent narcoterrorists networks and stop the trafficking of fentanyl and weapons," State Department spokesperson Tommy ⁠Pigott said in a statement. Mexico’s ⁠President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday she had tasked Fuente with strengthening coordination with the United States, following Trump’s threat, which became more ⁠worrying after U.S. forces attacked Venezuela last weekend and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro.

Washington Examiner [1/12/2026 2:29 AM, Staff, 1394K] reports Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with his counterpart from Mexico on Sunday to discuss strategies to halt drug trafficking operations in Mexico and the United States. The diplomats also strategized on how to take apart the narcoterrorist networks within Mexico’s dangerous cartels. Rubio spoke to Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente on Sunday by phone about the steps that could be taken to combat drug cartel operations. "Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente to discuss the need for stronger cooperation to dismantle Mexico’s violent narcoterrorist networks and stop the trafficking of fentanyl and weapons," said Tommy Pigott, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department. "Secretary Rubio reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to stopping narcoterrorism and stressed the need for tangible results to protect our homeland and hemisphere.” The call between Rubio and de la Fuente came just days after President Donald Trump claimed "cartels are running Mexico" and announced the U.S. would "hit land" to start cracking down on their operations. The communication also followed statements by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the potential strikes on Mexican land, claiming it would be a violation of their sovereignty. "Few Mexicans agree with an intervention," said Sheinbaum during a press conference last week. "Not only does it not help, who are they going to bomb? But also our sovereignty will be defended.” On Friday, before de la Fuente’s call with Rubio, Sheinbaum spoke about Trump’s comments again and efforts to combat narcotrafficking and cartel operations. She urged more substantial cooperative efforts between Mexico and the U.S. "Yesterday, I asked Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente to make direct contact with the (U.S.) Secretary of State and, if necessary, speak with President Trump to strengthen coordination," Sheinbaum said during a press conference on Friday. Still, recent comments suggest Trump’s frustration with Mexico on the country’s lack of results in dismantling the cartels in the country and the drug trafficking networks that illegally smuggle drugs, such as fentanyl, into the U.S. "Mexico has to get their act together because they’re pouring through Mexico and we’re going to have to do something," Trump said last week during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One. "We’d love Mexico to do it. They’re capable of doing it. But unfortunately, the cartels are very strong in Mexico.”

New York Post [1/11/2026 3:09 PM, Ryan King, 42219K] reports President Trump on Sunday crowed about cutting off Venezuelan money and oil to Cuba and encouraged Havana to "make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.". "Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!" Trump posted on Truth Social. "Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will," he continued. "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE." Trump did not provide specifics on what kind of deal he’d like to see from Cuba, which has been a rival of the US for decades. Top Trump administration officials, including the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have claimed that Cuban security forces were protecting Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro when US Delta Forces ripped through them during the Jan. 3 raid. Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel was defiant in the face of Trump’s threat, insisting that "nobody dictates what we do.". "Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. Nobody dictates what we do," Diaz-Canel posted on X, per a translation. "Cuba does not attack; it has been attacked by the U.S. for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood."

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CNN [1/12/2026 1:05 AM, Laura Sharman and Michael Rios, 18595K] reports Cuba’s leader has pushed back on Donald Trump’s demand that the Caribbean nation "make a deal" with Washington, as the US president warned that Havana would be cut off from the Venezuelan oil and money that it’s relied on for decades. "No one dictates what we do," Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Sunday on X, responding to Trump’s insistence that the communist nation do a deal "before it’s too late." Cuba has long received massive aid packages from oil-rich Venezuela, but the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro during a US operation, and Trump’s announcement that Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the US, is expected to leave Havana with an economic challenge. "Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. The Cuban government has said 32 of its citizens were killed "in combat actions" during the US operation to capture Maduro. Díaz-Canel was quick to reject external interference in Cuba’s affairs. "Cuba does not aggress; it is aggressed upon by the United States for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the Homeland to the last drop of blood," said Díaz-Canel.

The New York Post [1/11/2026 2:13 PM, Ronny Reyes, 42219K] reports US citizens are being called to leave Venezuela immediately over reports that armed paramilitaries are setting up roadblocks to hunt down American citizens following the capture of former President Nicolas Maduro. The State Department sent out a security alert from the US Embassy in Caracas on Saturday, warning Americans to quickly take flights out of the country to escape an ongoing hunt for US citizens or their allies inside Venezuela. "There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of US citizenship or support for the United States," the State Department warned. "US citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise caution when traveling by road.". Local reporters and activists have documented incidents where rifle-carrying militias have set up checkpoints around Caracas to inspect vehicles entering and leaving the capital. Sources inside Venezuela confirmed the situation with The Post last week, alleging that the colectivos stopped drivers to check their phones and cars. NewsMax [1/11/2026 10:36 AM, Mark Swanson, 4109K] reports that in a security alert issued Saturday, the State Department said it has received reports that armed members of so-called colectivos — pro-government paramilitary militias loyal to the former regime — have set up roadblocks across parts of the country. According to the alert, the groups are stopping vehicles and searching for signs that occupants are American citizens or supporters of the United States. Venezuela now carries a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory due to grave threats to Americans, including wrongful detention, torture, terrorism, kidnapping, crime, unrest, and failing health infrastructure. "U.S. citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise extreme caution when traveling by road," the department said, urging Americans to depart immediately now that limited international flights have resumed. The warning comes just over a week after U.S. special operations forces carried out a nighttime raid in Caracas that resulted in the arrest and extraction of Maduro, ending his grip on power. While many Venezuelans who opposed Maduro’s socialist regime have welcomed his removal, the country remains volatile, with armed loyalists still active in major cities and along key highways. Despite claims from Venezuelan officials that the situation is under control, journalists and activists in Caracas have reported the lawlessness by the colectivos, The Guardian reported. Major routes connecting Caracas to western Venezuela are also lined with military and police checkpoints. Venezuela’s foreign ministry dismissed the U.S. warning as "fabricated," claiming the country is enjoying "absolute calm, peace, and stability." The statement insisted all security forces remain under government control and accused Washington of exaggerating risks. President Donald Trump said last week he would consider visiting Venezuela in the future once conditions improve, saying he believed it would eventually be safe. U.S. officials were in Caracas on Friday as part of preliminary discussions tied to a potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy, though no timeline has been announced. Meanwhile, Maduro is being held in the United States awaiting trial on federal charges.

Breitbart [1/12/2026 4:42 AM, Frances Martel, 2416K] reports the American embassy in Bogotá, Colombia – the closest operating near Venezuela – warned this weekend of reports of roving socialist gangs known as “colectivos” hunting American citizens or those deemed to be “supportive” of the United States. Through the embassy, the State Department urged any American citizen in Venezuela to “leave the country immediately,” as the United States currently does not have the capacity to guarantee the security of Americans in the country in light of the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Maduro and his wife, “first combatant” Cilia Flores, from the Miraflores palace in Caracas on January 3, via a U.S. military operation. The brief operation was in support of American law enforcement, which had been offering a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro and Flores’s arrests. The couple face a litany of criminal charges, most of them tied to narco-terrorism, and are expected to stand trial in New York. Following Maduro’s ouster, his “vice president” and top henchwoman Delsy Rodríguez assumed the leadership of the illegitimate Maduro regime. Rodríguez has expressed a desire for “diplomacy” with the United States, while Trump has described her as “cooperative,” but experts believe she is not in control of the entirety of the socialist apparatus and other prominent chavista leaders have expressed much more hostile sentiments. Prominently, “interior minister” and wanted alleged drug lord Diosdado Cabello has taken to the streets of Caracas throughout the past week threatening civilians to remain silent about their liberation from Maduro or face the full force of his repressive street gangs. The U.S. embassy in Bogotá did not mention Cabello by name, but did warn of the threat of colectivos, motorcycle paramilitary terrorists who have for over a decade imposed Maduro’s will on the perpetually protesting masses. The colectivos, the American government warned, are reportedly seeking out Americans, presumably to hurt, capture, or kill them. “There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States,” the embassy alerted on Saturday. “U.S. citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise caution when traveling by road.”

FOX News [1/11/2026 5:59 PM, Emma Bussey, 40621K] reports the Trump administration’s renewed interest in tapping Venezuela’s mineral reserves could carry with it "serious risk," an expert on illicit economies has warned in the wake of the capture of Nicolás Maduro. A day after the U.S. military captured Maduro in Caracas, Trump administration officials highlighted their interest in the country’s critical mineral potential. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on Jan. 4, "You have steel, you have minerals, all the critical minerals. They have a great mining history that’s gone rusty," he said aboard Air Force One alongside President Donald Trump. Lutnick also said that Trump "is going to fix it and bring it back – for the Venezuelans.". "Venezuela’s gold, critical mineral and rare earth potential is substantial, which makes mining resources very much on the menu for Trump," Bram Ebus told Fox News Digital. "But this illicit economy involves extreme violence," he said, before describing abuses that include forced labor, criminal control of mining zones and punishments such as "hands being cut off for theft." Ebus cautioned that without strict safeguards, transparency and security, Trump’s efforts to tap Venezuela’s mineral wealth could entangle the U.S. in criminal networks. "The sector is already dominated by transnational crime syndicates, deeply implicated in human rights abuses, and intertwined with Chinese corporate interests," Ebus, the founder of Amazon Underworld, a research collective covering organized crime, said. "If corporations or foreign private security firms were to become directly involved in mining in Venezuela’s Amazon region, the situation could deteriorate rapidly and violently." Despite the renewed focus on oil and mineral wealth, "when it comes to mining, the situation is more complex than oil," Ebus added. "The illicit extraction of gold, tungsten, tantalum, and rare earth elements is largely controlled by Colombian guerrilla organizations, often working in collaboration with corrupt Venezuelan state security forces. Much of this output currently ends up in China.".

New York Times [1/11/2026 12:01 PM, Jonah E. Bromwich, Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum, 135475K] reports the episodes described in the indictment are vivid, even cinematic. There is Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, selling false passports to narco-traffickers, who used their diplomatic cover to ferry a planeload of drug money out of Mexico. There’s Mr. Maduro and his wife ordering a hit on a drug boss in Caracas. And there’s Mr. Maduro scolding officials foolish enough to place 1.3 metric tons of cocaine worth at least $67 million on a commercial flight to Paris, where it was promptly seized. Mr. Maduro, prosecutors said, soon authorized the arrests of Venezuelan military officers as a diversion from his own involvement in the fiasco. These vignettes from the federal indictment of Mr. Maduro, which paint him as a crucial actor in the drug trade, belie the complicated nature of the case against the Venezuelan autocrat, who was captured by the U.S. military this month. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan will have to fight through a thicket of complex legal issues and muster evidence from an unruly set of cooperating witnesses about incidents shrouded in secrecy and clouded by time. And they will have to do it all while contending with a White House prone to intervention in Justice Department business, which could complicate — or upend — the whole affair. The two key charges against Mr. Maduro accuse him of interlocking conspiracies: one to commit narco-terrorism and the other to import cocaine. The first charge effectively means prosecutors must prove that Mr. Maduro joined with terrorists in a conspiracy to deal in narcotics. The second focuses more specifically on drug trafficking. Mr. Maduro has pleaded not guilty to both charges, and to two other counts. “This is a tough case,” said Jeffrey Brown, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on international drug cases. “The terrorism dimensions of it are harder than the narcotics dimensions.” But, he said, the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office “is the best-suited office to make this type of case,” given its vast experience. The agency, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, also has a close relationship with the Special Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, which was deeply involved in the investigation, as were agents from the Department of Homeland Security. The case began years ago, and Mr. Maduro was originally indicted in 2020. In fall 2025, months before Mr. Maduro’s capture, Justice Department officials in Washington told Southern District prosecutors to prepare a new indictment against the Venezuelan leader, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who requested to speak anonymously to discuss details of the process. In contrast to the previous indictment, the new one asserts that Mr. Maduro worked with a rogues’ gallery of Latin American narco-trafficking groups, several of which have been the intensive focus of the Trump administration. Of the five groups mentioned, three — the Sinaloa Cartel, the Zetas and Tren de Aragua — were designated as terrorists last year, shortly after President Trump returned to Washington. Mr. Trump and his allies often use the word “terrorism” to describe adversaries foreign and domestic, but the word also has a formal, legal definition that prosecutors will have to meet. Their difficulty may come in convincing a jury that Mr. Maduro was connected to the narco-trafficking groups, a subject on which the indictment says little of substance. Prosecutors will almost certainly rely on cooperating witnesses who will recount crimes; some in the indictment date back more than 20 years. They may have to do so without the documentary evidence that often corroborates such testimony, including financial records or wiretap recordings. “Witnesses that participated in this investigation may be dead, they may be lost, whatever the case may be,” Mr. Brown said. “The further you go back in time to rely on proof to support your case, the more problems you have.”

Reuters [1/11/2026 8:52 PM, Jarrett Renshaw, 67103K] reports U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he might block Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) from investing in Venezuela after the oil major’s CEO called the country "uninvestable" during a White House meeting last week. Exxon CEO Darren Woods told Trump that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives. Trump had urged the group to spend $100 billion to revitalize Venezuela’s oil industry in a meeting less than a week after U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power in a brazen overnight raid. Woods’ skeptical remarks quickly emerged as the dominant headline, undercutting the White House’s hopes of building momentum from its engagement with the world’s most prominent oil executives. "I didn’t like Exxon’s response," Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington on Sunday. "I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute." Exxon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Exxon, ConocoPhillips (COP.N) and Chevron (CVX.N), the three largest U.S. oil producers, were for decades the most prominent partners of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA. The government of late President Hugo Chavez nationalized the industry between 2004 and 2007, and while Chevron negotiated deals to partner with PDVSA, ConocoPhillips and Exxon left the country and filed for prominent arbitration cases shortly after. Venezuela now owes over $13 billion collectively to ConocoPhillips and Exxon for the expropriations, according to court rulings. "We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here," Woods told Trump on Friday. Woods said that Exxon needed durable investment protections introduced and the country’s hydrocarbons law also needed to be reformed. "If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable," he said. ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance told Trump that his company was the largest non-sovereign credit holder in Venezuela, and called for a restructuring of the debt and the country’s entire energy system, including PDVSA. Trump said ConocoPhillips would get a lot of its money back, but the U.S. would start with a clean slate. "We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past because that was their fault," he said. Trump said on Friday that his administration would decide which firms would be allowed to operate in the South American country. "You’re dealing with us directly. You’re not dealing with Venezuela at all. We don’t want you to deal with Venezuela," he said. On Saturday, Trump signed an executive order to block courts or creditors from seizing revenue tied to the sale of Venezuelan oil held in U.S. Treasury accounts.

Breitbart [1/12/2026 3:00 AM, Staff, 2416K] reports President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States would take Greenland "one way or the other," warning that Russia and China would "take over" if Washington didn’t act. Trump says controlling the mineral-rich Danish territory is crucial for US national security given increased Russian and Chinese military activity in the Arctic. "If we don’t take Greenland, Russia or China will, and I’m not letting that happen," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, despite neither country laying claim to the vast island. Trump said he would be open to making a deal with the Danish self-governing territory "but one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.". Denmark and other European allies have voiced shock at Trump’s threats over the island, which plays a strategic role between North America and the Arctic, and where the United States has had a military base since World War II.

New York Post [1/12/2026 2:27 AM, Greg Wehner, 42219K] reports President Donald Trump said the US must acquire Greenland — not lease it — arguing the Arctic territory lacks defenses and warning that Russia or China would move in if Washington does not act, a move he said is critical to US and NATO security. While speaking with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday night, Trump was asked about Greenland and whether the US had made an offer to acquire the territory from Denmark. “I haven’t done that. Greenland should make the deal because Greenland does not want to see Russia or China take over,” he said. “Basically, their defense is two dog sleds. You know that? You know what their defense is? Two dog sleds. “In the meantime, you have Russian destroyers and submarines, and China destroyers and submarines all over the place,” Trump continued. “We’re not going to let that happen, and if it affects NATO, then it affects NATO. But, you know, they need us more than we need them, I will tell you that right now.” The president was also clear that his administration is not talking about leasing Greenland short term, but only about acquiring the Danish territory. “If we don’t do it, Russia or China will, and that’s not going to happen when I’m president,” Trump said. The remarks followed renewed pushback from Greenland’s leadership, which rejected calls from Trump and members of his administration for the US to take control of the island. Several Trump administration officials have echoed the president’s position, arguing that Greenland’s strategic location makes US control a national security imperative. Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said Friday night that the island has no interest in becoming part of the US or Denmark, according to The Associated Press. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory and longtime US ally, has repeatedly dismissed Trump’s suggestions that the US should acquire the island. “We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” the leaders said, adding that Greenland’s “future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.” The statement also criticized Washington’s rhetoric toward the island. “As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends,” it said. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned last week that Trump’s annexation comments could threaten NATO itself, saying any US military action against a NATO ally would effectively end the alliance and the security framework that has existed since World War II. “If the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2. Nielsen underscored that position the same day, writing in a Facebook post that Greenland is “not an object of superpower rhetoric.”

Wall Street Journal [1/11/2026 10:26 PM, Alexander Ward and Lara Seligman, 646K] reports President Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on options to respond to the protests in Iran, according to U.S. officials, a sign the president is considering reprimanding the regime for its crackdown on demonstrators as he has repeatedly threatened. The president’s planned meeting with senior administration officials will be a discussion about the next steps, which could include boosting antigovernment sources online, deploying secretive cyber weapons against Iranian military and civilian sites, placing more sanctions on the regime and military strikes, the officials said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine are expected to attend the Tuesday meeting, the officials said. Trump, speaking Sunday to reporters on Air Force One, said he had been reviewing military options to strike Iran after the regime was “starting to” cross his red line of not killing protesters. “We’re looking at some very strong options,” he said. If Iran retaliates to an American attack by targeting U.S. troops in the region, “we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.” He also said “the leaders of Iran called” to negotiate. “We may have to act before a meeting. … A meeting is being set up. Iran called. They want to negotiate.” Trump isn’t expected to make a final decision at the meeting as the deliberations are at an early stage. On Sunday, Iran’s parliamentary speaker threatened to attack American military bases in the Middle East if the U.S. acted first.

Wall Street Journal [1/11/2026 9:00 PM, Yaroslav Trofimov, 646K] reports Iran’s 12-day war with Israel and the U.S. last June broke the regime’s carefully nurtured image of invincibility, many ordinary Iranians say. Now the aftermath is helping to fuel a wave of protests over the past two weeks that has left at least 500 people dead as the Islamic Republic attempts to regain control. Footage seeping out of the country shows mass protests are continuing despite the crackdown. Human-rights-group assessments say security forces have already gunned down hundreds, and possibly thousands, of protesters. President Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran if deadly force is used, and on Tuesday aides are scheduled to brief him on specific measures the U.S. can take to respond to the killings. Iran’s leaders have weathered similar storms before. This time, the regime is in a far weaker position. The ayatollahs’ rule was shaped by the bloody eight-year war that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq launched in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The social compact that endured since that trauma was that Iranians would acquiesce to hardship and restrictions in return for a strong state that protects them from foreign attack. That assumption came crashing down when Iranian-backed Hamas and Hezbollah attacked Israel in 2023, triggering a regional war that brought death and destruction into the heart of Tehran last summer. Israeli strikes across Iran destroyed much of its military leadership, and the follow-on U.S. bombing campaign struck a heavy blow against Iran’s nuclear program. It was a humiliation for a regime that had invested so much of the country’s national wealth into a proxy network that was designed to deter exactly this sort of assault on the homeland. Now protesters are braving arrest or bullets as they demand not just changes in policy, but the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself.

Reuters [1/12/2026 4:20 AM, Jana Choukeir, Nayera Abdallah and Tala Ramadan, 36480K] reports President Donald Trump said the U.S. may meet Iranian officials and was in contact with the opposition, as he weighed a range of strong responses including military options to a violent crackdown on Iranian protests which pose one of the biggest challenges to clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. "We are ready for war but also for dialogue," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday in a briefing to foreign ambassadors in Tehran via English translation. Trump has warned Iran’s leaders that the United States would attack if security forces open fire on protesters. U.S.-based rights group HRANA said it had verified the deaths of 490 protesters and 48 security personnel, with more than 10,600 people arrested. Iran has not given an official toll and Reuters was unable to independently verify the tallies. Trump said on Sunday that Iran had called to negotiate its nuclear programme, which Israel and the U.S. bombed in a 12-day war in June. "Iran wants to negotiate, yes. We might meet with them. A meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what is happening before the meeting, but a meeting is being set up. Iran called, they want to negotiate," Trump told reporters on Air Force One. Trump was to meet with senior advisers on Tuesday to discuss options for Iran, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday. The Wall Street Journal had reported that options included military strikes, using secret cyber weapons, widening sanctions and providing online help to anti-government sources. "The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options," Trump told reporters on Air Force One. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned Washington against "a miscalculation." "Let us be clear: in the case of an attack on Iran, the occupied territories (Israel) as well as all U.S. bases and ships will be our legitimate target," said Qalibaf, a former commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. The protests began on December 28 in response to soaring prices, before turning against the clerical rulers who have governed since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranians, who are struggling to make ends meet, have grown increasing resentful of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, whose business interests including oil and gas, construction and telecommunications are worth billions of dollars. State TV on Monday aired live footage of large crowds attending a funeral procession for security forces killed in Shahrud and pro-government demonstrations in cities such as Kerman, Zahedan and Birjand, held “in condemnation of recent terrorist events”. It also relayed calls from various senior officials inviting people to take to the streets on Monday. Iranian authorities accused the U.S. and Israel of fomenting trouble and called for a nationwide rally on Monday to condemn "terrorist actions led by the United States and Israel," state media reported. The situation in Iran is "under total control" after violence linked to protests spiked over the weekend, said Araqchi. He added Trump’s warning against Tehran of action should protests turn bloody had motivated "terrorists" to target protesters and security forces in order to invite foreign intervention.

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NewsMax [1/11/2026 10:15 PM, Brian Freeman, 4109K] reports Iran reached out to the United States over the weekend and proposed holding talks on a nuclear deal, President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, Axios reported. "We may meet with them," the president said. "A meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what’s happening, before the meeting ... but a meeting is being set up." Trump’s comments come as protests in Iran intensify, the death toll rises, and the U.S. considers taking military action against the regime. Trump has said publicly that he is willing to use military force if the Iranian regime killed protesters, and on Sunday told reporters he is looking at "very strong options" when it comes to backing the demonstrators. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

New York Times [1/12/2026 12:50 AM, Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi, 330K] reports a severe crackdown in Iran on protesters challenging the government has led to a sharp rise in the death toll in recent days, with rights groups reporting casualties in the hundreds and no sign that the authorities are relenting. Despite a near-complete internet blackout and draconian limits on phone communications in the country of 80 million, reports have started to trickle out that include verified videos of protester deaths and corpses lined up in body bags outside hospitals. The worsening crisis in Iran, which started as a protest over economic grievances, represents what some experts are calling one of the gravest challenges to the authorities since the Islamic Revolution nearly five decades ago. After initially striking a more sympathetic tone when demonstrations began two weeks ago, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, took a tougher stance in an interview on Iranian state television Sunday, saying he was working to address protesters’ anger over the economy but vowed “not to let rioters destabilize the country.” Late Sunday, President Trump, who had earlier warned that the United States would intercede if the Iranian government killed peaceful protesters, hinted that he might be ready to act. Asked by reporters traveling with him on Air Force One whether Iran’s leaders had crossed a red line, he replied: “It looks like it. There seems to be some people killed who weren’t supposed to be killed.” Without getting into details, Mr. Trump said: “We’re looking at it very seriously, the military’s looking at it. And there’s a couple options.” Demonstrators started taking to the streets on Dec. 28, spurred by a sudden plunge in the value of Iran’s currency. But their calls quickly broadened to demanding the overthrow of Iran’s authoritarian clerical rulers. Over the past few days, the protests have snowballed into a mass movement, drawing huge crowds to the streets, from Iran’s major cities to the impoverished towns of its rural hinterland. On Sunday, human rights groups began reporting a sharp rise in the death toll as accounts of a violent repression broke through a three-day communications blackout imposed by the Iranian authorities. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group raised its toll to 192, while HRANA, a rights group based in Washington, said it had confirmed the deaths of nearly 500 protesters and almost 50 security personnel. Videos published on Iranian social media channels on Sunday and verified by New York Times showed dozens of what appeared to be black body bags, lined up on the ground or on stretchers outside the Forensic Diagnostic and Laboratory Centre in Kahrizak, a town on the outskirts of Tehran. In the videos, large crowds of people gather around the body bags, with some people unzipping them to try to identify a loved one, while others crouch or lie on the ground to weep or offer each other comfort.

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