Posted on 01/10/2026 9:05:20 AM PST by DFG
The Trump administration is expected to send an additional 200 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to Minnesota amid unrest, sources told The Hill’s sister station NewsNation.
This news follows reporting from The Associated Press that federal immigration officers originally deployed to Louisiana will be sent to assist in the Minneapolis operation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was initially expected to send around 2,000 immigration agents to the state.
The operation, which DHS said would be its “largest ever,” comes amid the administration’s probe into welfare fraud in the North Star State — with 85 of the defendants being of Somali descent. Federal prosecutors estimate that billions of dollars were potentially lost in this scheme.
The presence of immigration officers in Minnesota has raised tensions to a boiling point after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good, in her vehicle on Wednesday.
DHS defended the officer’s actions as self-defense, with department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claiming Macklin Good was attempting to run the officer over with her car in an “act of domestic terrorism.”
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” McLaughlin posted on the social platform X after the shooting.
President Trump, Vice President Vance, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other White House officials have backed up that explanation in recent days.
However, multiple state officials have disputed this account of events, pointing to footage of the incident shared online.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) called DHS’ account “bullsh–.”
“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed,” Frey said at a Wednesday press conference. He doubled down on the remarks on Thursday, including his request that ICE officials ‘get the f— out‘ of the city.
Protests are continuing to be held in Minnesota and across the country after the shooting. On Wednesday evening, hundreds of people gathered at the site of the fatal interaction in Minneapolis to commemorate the life of Macklin Good.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who announced earlier this week that he would not seek reelection, also authorized the state’s National Guard to be “staged and ready” as demonstrations spring up.
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Thursday that protesters should not “test our resolve” and avoid “obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law enforcement.”
In a statement to The Hill, DHS said it could not confirm details about ongoing operations, citing safety concerns.
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Send 20,000.
Exactly. Flood the State.
No quarter!
How about directing some intelligence resources there.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the groups advocating and funding the “protests” are unregistered foreign agents.
Right. And be sure they’re weaponized.
They can start with “Catholic Charities’’ for one.
And I’m Catholic.
One very subtle way to deal with some of this is to sick the IRS on every paid protester for unreported income. As much as i dislike the IRS it has the capability to make life miserable for these paid agitators.
We can’t spare this man, he fights!
Yes, the Catholics have a very big problem, and the new pope is red. I’m a cradle Catholic
I like that idea...probably paid in cash not easy to track but worth a try!!!!
Maybe the mayor can offer the protesters, another police precinct to light on fire to appease them?
And a bloodied, bound and tortured Christ on a large crucifix staring down.
YAY!!!
It takes that long for the professional agitators to travel there from where they normally live.
We've seen this pattern repeat over and over. The local population reacts on the first night, and by the fourth night the people with gas masks and body shields show up.
It's been my contention that most people don't have gas masks. If a police incident happened on your block, how many of your neighbors do you think will show up to a protest carrying a gas mask? None, is what I would guess.
But when you start seeing the gas masks show up at a protest in a far-away place like Minneapolis, you know that it's the professional agitators who finally made their way there.
And then the Democrats go on TV and use the "escalation" in violence as their proof that "Kristi Noem is out of control" and that ICE must be stopped.
-PJ
I think we are long over due for the deployment of the 82nd airborne division to Minnesota and arrest the entire government administration for sedition. Then have the POTUS “Run the State” for a while. Standing Order/Rules of Engagement: Anyone threatening a Government officer or soldier with a fire arm will be shot on sight.
The scam is massive. Catholic Charities made billions facilitating the invasion. Lutheran Services, under Judy Hamstead, started the scam and is now employed by the state of Somalia, I mean Minnidishu. Once the other religious NGOs saw she was getting hundreds of thousands of dollars PER RAPEFUGEE they all jumped on that gravy train. Every religious NGO should be prosecuted for this. They are criminal enterprises scamming tax payers.
They need to make WAY MORE ARRESTS!!!
Yikes. It's gonna be cold...
I nominate a crew of Forensic Accountants to flood MN. There will be future deductions in all federal funds for fraudulent transactions.
Im sure Minnesotans will be happy to pay higher taxes to continue their welfare state
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