Hundreds more immigration officers headed to Minneapolis, Noem says, as tensions flare after fatal ICE shooting

(CNN) 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.

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