Minnesota, ICE and shooting
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DHS said federal officers stopped a person from Venezuela, before they drove away and crashed into a parked car.
U.S. President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone regarding an ICE officer's fatal shooting of a Minnesota mother, saying on Wednesday that it was "sad to see on both sides."
Ms. Good was killed by an ICE agent last week. Separately, a federal judge put off ruling on a request by the state to block the surge of immigration agents to the Minneapolis area.
The Democratic Senate primary between Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Rep. Angie Craig has become a slugfest amid Trump's immigration crackdown.
The Trump administration’s efforts to investigate Renee Good and others around her, and not the ICE officer who shot her in Minneapolis, is wreaking havoc on the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, which is leading the probe.
Top federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned after the Department of Justice pressured them to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent.
The Quinnipiac University poll found wide disparities on the shooting among Republicans, Democrats and independents.
Republican elected officials in Georgia have said the ICE officer acted in self-defense while Democratic legislators say the woman — 37-year-old Renee Good — was murdered.
Democrats demand the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after the fatal ICE-involved shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota.