Hundreds More Federal Agents Heading to Minnesota, Noem Says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signaled that hundreds more federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis, where the fatal shooting of a woman has inflamed strife around President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow,” Noem said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures when asked about the government’s response. “They’ll arrive — there’ll be hundreds more, in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.”

Kristi Noem during a news conference in New York on Jan. 8.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Protests erupted in Minneapolis after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renée Nicole Good ...