An immigration crackdown gone wrong. What do we know?
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
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Summary
ICE says she was shot in her car after attempting to run over immigration agents.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the woman’s actions a domestic act of terrorism. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the narrative that the shooting was done in self-defense “garbage.”
An immigration crackdown gone wrong. What do we know?
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| 0:00.0 | Today in Minneapolis, an immigration and customs enforcement officer shot and killed a woman. |
| 0:07.1 | The Department of Homeland Security described the woman as a violent rioter who attempted to run over |
| 0:13.9 | law enforcement officers. Here's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noem. |
| 0:17.9 | This goes to show the assaults that are ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every |
| 0:22.8 | single day. |
| 0:24.1 | These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism. |
| 0:28.1 | But the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, a Democrat, says the video paints a different |
| 0:33.8 | picture. |
| 0:34.8 | I myself saw a video of the shots being fired as the car was driving away. |
| 0:43.3 | What I can tell you is the narrative that this was just done in self-defense is a garbage |
| 0:49.4 | narrative. |
| 0:51.4 | That is not true. |
| 0:53.4 | Consider this, an immigration crackdown gone wrong. |
| 0:56.8 | What do we know? |
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