STORY: :: ICE officials ask Democratic lawmakers to leave Minnesota facility days after fatal shooting
:: Minneapolis, Minnesota
:: January 10, 2026
:: Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D) Minnesota
"When we made it in, it was with the authorization of someone who's been here for a really long time, who understood that we had a congressional duty to enter the building and to see the facility. Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building and that they were rescinding our invitation to come in and declining any further access to the building."
:: Rep. Angie Craig, (D) Minnesota
"This administration continues to use Minnesota as a political stunt. And earlier this week, it got a woman killed, as we are, as they are detaining individuals across Minnesota and across this country. It is our job as members of Congress to make sure that those folks detained are treated with humanity because we are the damn United States of America."
On Wednesday (January 7), an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good, behind the wheel of her car on a residential Minneapolis street.
The violence came soon after some 2,000 federal officers were dispatched to Minneapolis in what ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, called the "largest DHS operation ever."
In response, civil liberties and migrant-rights groups called for nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting and call for an end to large-scale deployments of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ordered by Trump, mostly to cities led by Democratic politicians.
