Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The Department of Justice has issued

subpoenas for Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, the state's attorney general Keith Ellison,

and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. The Trump administration alleges the Democrats have been

obstructing the immigration enforcement surge in the state's two largest cities. Walls,

Ellison, ande have condemned the

crackdown as dangerous, citing the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration officer.

Today, President Trump defended how federal agents have been operating.

They're going to make mistakes sometimes.

ICE is going to be too rough with somebody or, you know, they're dealing with rough people.

They're going to make a mistake sometimes Sometimes it can happen. We feel terribly. I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman who was, had the tragedy, it's a tragedy.

It's a horrible thing. Everybody would say, ICE would say the same thing.

Trump administration officials have previously described the woman, Renee Maclin Good,

as a domestic terrorist who attempted to ram federal agents.

More than 250 tech professionals from some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley

are urging their bosses to pressure the White House to pull federal immigration

officers out of American cities. NPR's John Ruich reports they say there's precedent.

An online petition has been signed by employees at Google, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, and many other

companies. It references President Trump's October decision not to send immigration forces into San Francisco.

Trump said at the time he got, quote, a great call from some incredible people who persuaded him to hold off from surging federal agents into the city.

Among them were NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Mark Beniof, the CEO of Salesforce.

The online petition calls on tech leaders to pick up the phone

to the White House again to demand that ICE withdraw from U.S. cities. It also urged them to cancel

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