Over the course of 2025, President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda sparked fierce backlash, including mass protests and even riots. This year is following suit, with demonstrations targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis now spreading across the nation in the wake of a fatal incident.

Democrats and pro-immigration activists have seized on the death of Renee Good after the 37-year-old was shot and killed after striking ICE agent Jonathan Ross with her car after she was confronted for obstructing federal immigration raids. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, faulted the president’s “escalation” for the events surrounding Good’s death.

“Leaving aside whatever happened in those critical seconds when Jonathan Ross shot her and killed her, the surge and escalation in the tactics directed by the president are directly responsible for the upheaval and interruption of education and the death of Renee Good,” Ellison said in an interview Friday. “The escalation, the unwarranted—I believe unconstitutional—escalation, illegal escalation, is why these tragic events are unfolding. Absent this escalation, I believe Renee Good is taking her 6-year-old to school again.”

Other Democrats have echoed similar rhetoric.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, suggested that ICE is using “unconstitutional” tactics in enforcing federal immigration law.

“You can’t come into a city and discriminate solely on the basis of ‘Are you Latino or are you Somali?’ And then randomly pick people up off the street after that,” he charged in a Sunday interview. “You can’t just detain somebody because they look like they are Somali or they look like they are Latino. To be very clear, for the whole country. That is what is happening right now.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., called the ICE operations “inhumane and illegal,” characterizing the Department of Homeland Security as “the most lawless Department of Homeland Security in the history of the country.”

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat who has clashed with the Trump administration over his state’s “sanctuary” policies sheltering illegal immigrants, averred that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “needs to resign,” along with Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, who Pritzker smeared as “a pathological........

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