The U.S. Government will send “hundreds” of additional federal agents to Minnesota

New York.- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that she will send “hundreds” more federal agents to Minnesota amid tensions over the death of the protester shot by an agent of the Customs and Immigration Service (ICE). “We are going to send more officers today and tomorrow, there will be hundreds more, to allow our ICE and Border Patrol people who are working in Minneapolis to continue doing so safely,” Noem said on Fox News’ ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ program. According to calculations by local media, those agents will be added to about 2,100 ICE and other federal agency agents who were already sent by Homeland Security at the beginning of the month to the state of Minnesota. The secretary warned that if the protesters, who oppose ICE’s immigration raids and federal agents, “carry out violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that is a crime and we will hold them accountable for the consequences.” He also argued that the presence of federal agents in Minnesota is necessary because “it is ground zero for the theft of taxpayer money and the protection of criminals”, and specifically pointed out that child trafficking and sexual trafficking among undocumented immigrants is “prevalent” in the state.

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This weekend, more than 1,000 protests were held in the U.S. against the immigration policy of Donald Trump’s government and the death of protester Renee Good, a 37-year-old white woman shot by a federal agent in her vehicle near an immigration operation in Minneapolis last Wednesday. Noem and other officials from the Trump Administration have insisted that Good was seeking to run over one of the ICE agents with her vehicle, while local authorities have stated that public videos show that she was trying to drive away, but one of the agents followed her and shot her several times. The secretary considered Good’s death “tragic” this Sunday after accusing her in recent days of exercising “internal terrorism”, something that has drawn criticism from the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, and the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, who are calling for a transparent investigation.