<p>A federal court ruled against the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from federal immigration custody, handing a victory to the Trump administration.</p>
<p>A panel of Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a judge lacked jurisdiction when they ordered Khalil&#8217;s release from immigration detention in June, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-wins-appeal-ruling-releasing-pro-palestinian-activist-2026-01-15/">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Through the 2-1 order, Khalil&#8217;s lawsuit challenging his first arrest has been dismissed, meaning he could be taken back into federal immigration custody.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our holdings vindicate essential principles of habeas and immigration law. The scheme Congress enacted governing immigration proceedings provides Khalil a meaningful forum in which to raise his claims later on — in a petition for review of a final order of removal,&#8221; the majority wrote in their ruling, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud-khalil-appeals-court-ruling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS News.</p>
<p>The panel ruled that an immigration judge must hear Khalil&#8217;s claims.</p>
<p>&#8220;[V]arious provisions of the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act] limit an alien&#8217;s ability to collaterally attack (challenge) ongoing immigration proceedings through habeas. The District Court did not see those limits as barring subject-matter jurisdiction over Khalil&#8217;s claims. We disagree,&#8221; the majority wrote. &#8220;[The INA] strips the District Court of jurisdiction, requiring Khalil to wait to raise his claims until he files a petition for review (PFR) of a final order of removal.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Trump administration arrested Khalil in March, a Green Card holder from Syria, who is also of Palestinian descent, after he helped lead anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and engaged in activities that were “aligned to Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>After Khalil&#8217;s arrest, Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to strip the legal status of  immigrants found to be &#8220;Hamas supporters.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,&#8221; Rubio said on X at the time.</p>
<p>Rubio also said then that Khalil&#8217;s &#8220;presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.&#8221;</p>


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<p>President Donald Trump ended temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis living in the United States, ordering them to leave the country by March 17.</p>
<p>&#8220;Temporary means temporary,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital Tuesday. &#8220;Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,&#8221; Noem said. &#8220;We are putting Americans first.&#8221;</p>
<p>Roughly 2,471 Somali nationals currently live in the U.S. under temporary protected status, according to Fox.</p>
<p>An estimated 600 of them are living in Minnesota.</p>
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<p>DHS is ENDING Temporary Protected Status for Somalians in the United States.</p>
<p>Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves. <a href="https://t.co/moTA5BnCpM">pic.twitter.com/moTA5BnCpM</a></p>
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<p>There are also 1,383 Somalis living in the country with pending applications for temporary protected status, the outlet reported.</p>
<p>If Somalis who are subject to the order refuse to leave the United States by March, they will likely become targets of federal immigration authorities.</p>
<p>The policy change comes just one day after Minneapolis and St. Paul announced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-agitator-as-chaos-erupts-in-minneapolis?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Trump+Deploys+More+Feds+To+Minnesota+As+Dems+File+Lawsuit+Against+Admin">lawsuit</a> against the Trump administration over its mass deportation sweeps in Minnesota.</p>
<p>The lawsuit seeks to “end the unlawful, unprecedented surge of the federal law enforcement agents into Minnesota,” state Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a press conference on Monday.</p>
<p>“The obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” he said.</p>
<p>The feud between the Trump administration and officials in Minnesota boiled over after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, who was reportedly tied to a radical ICE Watch organization tracking the agency&#8217;s whereabouts.</p>
<p>The president has accused Good of committing an act of &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; after she was seen in footage blocking a road the ICE agents were trying to pass through before she ignored their commands to get out of the car. Good was then seen putting her car in reverse and backing up, before driving forward.</p>
<p>One video appears to show the agent taking a hit as he stood in front of the vehicle before shots were fired.</p>
<p>The Trump administration has also zeroed in on Minnesota&#8217;s Somali community after federal authorities revealed last month that an estimated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-ice-director-blames-sanctuary-laws-for-minnesota-fraud">$9 billion</a> in taxpayer funds may have been stolen as part of a massive fraud campaign that’s largely been tied to the population.</p>
<p>The fraudsters are accused of funneling cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported last month.</p>


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<p>New shocking details have emerged in the case of a suspected member of the notorious Venezuelan prison Tren de Aragua, who federal authorities have charged with attempting to run over U.S. immigration officers in Portland.</p>
<p>One Border Patrol agent pulled a gun and fired a “defensive shot” at the vehicle, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The suspected gang member and his passenger, a suspected Tren de Aragua-tied prostitute, sped off.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire obtained newly unsealed charges filed against the driver, Luis David Nico Moncada, who is now charged with aggravated assault of a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon and depredation of federal property in excess of $1,000.</p>
<p>Moncada, who crossed the border illegally during the Biden administration and later received a deportation order, was driving the alleged prostitute in a red pickup truck when he was pulled over by six Border Patrol agents.</p>
<p>Four of the agents approached Moncada, who appeared &#8220;anxious and visibly moving around in the driver&#8217;s seat,&#8221; and asked him and the alleged prostitute to exit the vehicle.</p>
<p>Instead, Moncada reversed his car and hit an unoccupied Border Patrol vehicle &#8220;with enough speed and force to cause significant damage,&#8221; according to the charging documents. He then put his car in drive, &#8220;and continued the forward/reverse maneuver multiple times, striking the Border Patrol vehicle multiple times.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the agents fired their gun at Moncada before he fled the scene.</p>
<p>Another agent on scene told federal investigators he feared Moncada could strike the agents or another car, according to the charging documents.</p>
<p>Photos included in the documents appear to show that the Border Patrol vehicle&#8217;s bumper was torn off, both headlights were destroyed, the front driver-side quarter panel was dented, and the driver side rear-passenger door and quarter panel were dented.</p>
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<p>Moncada called 911 after fleeing the scene. When responding authorities applied a tourniquet to Moncada, he repeatedly stated “f*ck ICE.”</p>
<p>Both Moncada and the alleged prostitute, later identified as Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, were hospitalized with gunshot wounds.</p>
<p>In a later interview with the FBI, Moncada &#8220;admitted to intentionally ramming the Border Patrol vehicle in an attempt to flee, and he stated that he knew they were immigration enforcement vehicles,&#8221; according to the charging documents.</p>
<p>Zambrano-Contreras also crossed the border illegally under the Biden administration and was required to check in with ICE after she was released, but never did, according to the charging documents.</p>
<p>She was allegedly involved in a shooting on July 7 tied to a bad prostitution deal. Before the shooting, Zambrano-Contreras called Moncada &#8220;to pick her up&#8221; and then contacted &#8220;a friend &#8230; who always carried a gun.&#8221;</p>
<p>The friend, who is identified as &#8220;Alex,&#8221; showed up at the scene with several other men who proceeded to break into an apartment where the alleged customer was holding the alleged prostitute&#8217;s earnings and belongings.</p>
<p>Agents were looking to arrest Zambrano-Contreras when the shooting occurred on Thursday.</p>
<p>Authorities had also tied the shell casings recovered that day to a shooting that took place three days later. That shooting involved a car purchase gone wrong involving Tren de Aragua members.</p>
<p>The Portland shooting took place one day after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. Before the shooting, the woman appeared to be blocking a road with her vehicle.</p>
<p>Federal agents were then seen approaching her vehicle and ordering her to get out of the car, before she backed up and pulled her car forward.</p>
<p>An agent who appeared to have been hit by the car fired a fatal shot at the woman.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security called the incident &#8220;an act of domestic terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats,” the agency said.</p>
<p>The incident sparked mass protests across Minneapolis.</p>


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<p>Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the radical &#8220;ICE Watch&#8221; organization that she was working with is pushing to get more activists onto the streets.</p>
<p>The ICE Watch groups, which organize activists to follow and obstruct federal immigration agents making arrests across the country, are trying to get more activists out onto the streets where the Trump administration has warned that they could put their lives in danger.</p>
<p>On Saturday, thousands of activists participated in a church training in Roseville, Minnesota, where they were encouraged to annoy agents like &#8220;mosquitoes.&#8221; The group running the training session, Monarca, has scheduled six trainings since the shooting, all of which are &#8220;at capacity,&#8221; <a href="https://monarcamn.org/training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to their website.</p>
<p>One of the local Minneapolis ICE watch groups, known as &#8220;defendthe612,&#8221; held a training the day after the shooting &#8220;for anyone who wants to learn how to plug in and for those who have already been in the streets and can share lessons from that experience,&#8221; according to an Instagram post.</p>
<p>&#8220;Practicing ICE Watch keeps our neighborhoods safer by ensuring people know their rights, have a plan, and know how to act in the event of targeting by ICE,&#8221; the post read. The group also organized a protest Friday night that later grew violent as rioters broke into a local hotel where they believed ICE agents were staying in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>A Minnesota woman named Kristin Peter said Good was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers, the New York Post reported. And despite Good&#8217;s fatal interaction with law enforcement, the activists don&#8217;t seem deterred. Peter said she herself was planning to attend of the group’s meetings Thursday night — and Minneapolis ICE Watch member Flannery Clark <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/10/us/video/ice-observer-responds-vance-comments-minneapolis-vrtc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN she&#8217;s not stopping either.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to do what we can to protect our immigrant neighbors,&#8221; she said, adding that it&#8217;s &#8220;too dangerous&#8221; to block ICE. &#8220;We document and make sure that the families of people who are kidnapped can find them.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Just hours after the shooting, an Instagram account called &#8220;ICEoutoftwinports&#8221; said &#8220;NEED BODIES&#8221; in response to apparent Homeland Security Investigations activity at a daycare in Duluth, Minnesota.</p>
<p>Another post from the group that day asked &#8220;for people to SHOW UP in numbers&#8221; to an area where 100-200 agents were apparently spotted.</p>
<p>&#8220;Show up, record, inform them of their right to remain silent and not sign anything! Please proceed with caution and do not interfere directly with any investigation unless you are willing to face potential legal consequences,&#8221; the group wrote.</p>
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<p>The organization has also been asking agitators to harass hotels in the hopes to get them to kick ICE agents out.</p>
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<p>And some have already acted on the instructions from &#8220;ICE Watch&#8221; organizations.</p>
<p>Video captured by Fox News Friday showed Border Patrol agents warning two drivers against following them and impeding with their arrests in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>&#8220;If I continually see you following us, interfering with us, honking your horn, blocking our cars, you have a very high probability of making a really bad decision and being arrested today,&#8221; a masked Border Patrol agent said to the first woman as she sat in her car.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m making exactly the right decision,&#8221; the woman responded.</p>
<p>Good apparently joined one of the activist groups after learning about it through her 6-year-old son’s leftist charter school, which prides itself on “involving kids in political and social activism,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.</p>
<p>A mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told the outlet that Good “was trained against these ICE agents” on “what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” adding that the training included how “to listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.”</p>
<p>Good was killed after she appeared to be blocking a road ICE agents were trying to pass through. The officers could be heard in a video ordering her to get out of her vehicle, before she put it in reverse and then in drive.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis <a href="https://t.co/p2wks0zew0">pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0</a></p>
<p>— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlphaNews/status/2009679932289626385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>One video appeared to show the ICE officer take a hit as he was standing in front of the car before shots were fired.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 BREAKING: Was just sent a video showing the moments before the shooting.</p>
<p>In it, you can clearly see Renee Good’s vehicle blocking ICE agents for over 3 minutes as she’s dancing to her own car horn.</p>
<p>Kinda ruins some narratives, doesn’t it? <a href="https://t.co/aXtiTjAtF9">pic.twitter.com/aXtiTjAtF9</a></p>
<p>— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrageDustin/status/2010037103665787019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Video taken minutes before appeared to show Good repeatedly honking her horn as her car blocked the road and she danced to the loud noise from the driver&#8217;s seat.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not happy that this woman was there at a protest violating the law by interfering with a law enforcement action. I think that we can all recognize that the best way to turn down the temperature is to tell people to take their concerns about immigration policy to the ballot box,&#8221; Vice President JD Vance said during a press conference Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Stop assaulting and stop inciting violence against our law enforcement officers. That&#8217;s the best way to take down the temperature,&#8221; he said.</p>


Protest against ICE after fatal shooting in Minneapolis

Radical ‘ICE Watch’ Groups Recruit More Activists After Minneapolis Shooting, Trainings ‘At Capacity’

Minneapolis

Protestors

<p>Two illegal immigrants linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were shot after allegedly trying to run over U.S. Border Patrol agents in Portland on Thursday, according to federal authorities.</p>
<p>While Democratic leaders in Oregon&#8217;s sanctuary state have condemned the shooting and even called it &#8220;reckless,&#8221; the Trump administration has shared the rap sheets of the injured illegal immigrants that tell a different story.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that the two individuals are &#8220;suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates&#8221; who were &#8220;let loose on American streets by Joe Biden&#8221; and ultimately &#8220;weaponized their vehicle against Border Patrol in Portland.&#8221;</p>
<p>The pair of illegal immigrants allegedly refused to exit their vehicle as Border Patrol agents were attempting to arrest Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, then tried to run the feds over, according to DHS.</p>
<p>DHS defended the agent who shot the two illegal immigrants, saying he &#8220;took immediate action to defend himself and others, shooting them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The vehicle&#8217;s driver, who is accused of trying to plow down the agents, was identified as suspected Tren de Aragua gangbanger Luis David Nico Moncada, who was released into the United States after crossing the border illegally in 2022, according to DHS.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Yesterday, two suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates—let loose on American streets by Joe Biden—weaponized their vehicle against Border Patrol in Portland. The agent took immediate action to defend himself and others, shooting them.</p>
<p>The driver of the vehicle, Luis David Nico… <a href="https://t.co/E7qHKKfp6b">pic.twitter.com/E7qHKKfp6b</a></p>
<p>— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/2009638506339926497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Since he entered the United States, Moncada racked up arrests for DUI and unauthorized use of a vehicle, along with a deportation order from an immigration judge, DHS said.</p>
<p>The passenger, Zambrano-Contreras, was tagged by DHS as an &#8220;associate&#8221; of Tren de Aragua, who crossed the border illegally in 2023 before she was released into the country.</p>
<p>Since then, she&#8217;s &#8220;played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and was involved with a prior shooting in Portland,&#8221; DHS said.</p>
<p>Tren de Aragua&#8217;s prostitution rings are widespread across the country and have become a cash cow for the gang.</p>
<p>Thursday&#8217;s shooting comes just one day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>The Trump administration said the ICE officer fired &#8220;defensive shots&#8221; against Good, who they said was obstructing agents and committing acts of &#8220;domestic terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Democratic leaders in Minnesota, however, have defended Good&#8217;s actions and accused the ICE officer of murder.</p>


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Meet The Tren de Aragua-Tied Illegals Who DHS Says Tried To Run Over Border Agents In Portland

illegal immigrants

Tren De Aragua

<p>More information has emerged about the woman shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis Wednesday that gives a glimpse into the anti-ICE activism she apparently participated in.</p>
<p>Renee Nicole Good, 37, was identified by family who said she didn&#8217;t have any involvement with ant-ICE activities. The Trump administration identified her as a &#8220;domestic terrorist.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some local residents attending a vigil for Good, however, identified her as a &#8220;warrior&#8221; who participated in an &#8220;ICE watch&#8221; group to “document and resist&#8221; the agency, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.</p>
<p>Good first learned of the group through her 6-year-old son&#8217;s leftist charter school, which prides itself on “involving kids in political and social activism,&#8221; the outlet reported.</p>
<p>“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told the New York Post.</p>
<p>Leesa went on to say that Good &#8220;was trained against these ICE agents&#8221; on &#8220;what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,&#8221; adding that the training included how “to listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.&#8221;</p>
<p>County worker Kristin Peter, 30, said Good was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers. Peter said she herself was planning to go to one of the group&#8217;s meetings Thursday night.</p>
<p>“They were on the same team, they would eat meals together,” she told the New York Post.</p>
<p>“From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told the New York Post.</p>
<p>Good was killed after she appeared to be blocking a road ICE agents were trying to pass through. The officers appeared to order her to get out of her vehicle, before she put it in reverse and then in drive.</p>
<p>One video appeared to show the car make contact with an ICE officer who was standing in front before shots were fired.</p>
<p>The Trump administration says the ICE officer acted in self defense, but Democrats, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have classified his actions as &#8220;murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security blamed the &#8220;malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians&#8221; for a 1,300% increase in assaults, 3,200% surge in vehicle attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE, in a statement shared with The Daily Wire Thursday.</p>
<p>“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right,&#8221; Leesa said.</p>
<p>A federal investigation into the shooting is ongoing.</p>


US-IMMIGRATION-ICE-SHOOTING

Renee Good Was Trained ‘ICE Watch’ ‘Warrior,’ Locals Say

Illegal Immigration

U.S.

<p>Nearly seven months before a federal immigration officer opened fire on a woman accused of trying to ram him with her car, he was brutally dragged by an illegal immigrant sex offender he was trying to take off the streets.</p>
<p>The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer opened fire Wednesday as a woman said to be blocking a road they were attempting to pass through didn&#8217;t get out of her car, as the federal agents instructed, before she reversed her vehicle and pulled forward. One video appeared to show the ICE officer, who has more than ten years of experience, fatally shooting the woman after her vehicle made contact with him.</p>
<p>The Trump administration has defended the ICE officer&#8217;s actions, saying the woman, who has since been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, &#8220;weaponized&#8221; her vehicle to plow down the agent.</p>
<p>Democratic politicians, however, have accused the ICE officer of &#8220;murdering&#8221; Good. And protestors have formed angry mobs in Minneapolis to display their outrage with the ICE officer&#8217;s response.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.</p>
<p>As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.</p>
<p>— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2009015792382390463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<div id="attachment_1025289" style="width: 223px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1025289" class="wp-image-1025289 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Untitled-design-2026-01-08T150222.700.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="240" /><p id="caption-attachment-1025289" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: Department of Homeland Security</p></div>
<p>In June, that same ICE officer was the victim of a brutal assault where he was dragged roughly 100 yards down a Minnesota street as he was chasing down an illegal immigrant convicted of &#8220;repeatedly sexually abusing his 16-year-old stepdaughter,&#8221; <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.225947/gov.uscourts.mnd.225947.1.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court documents.</p>
<p>At the time, the ICE officer made multiple attempts to deescalate the situation and give the suspect a chance to comply with his orders, the court documents reveal.</p>
<p>Guatemalan illegal immigrant Roberto Carlos Munoz was out in the community after local authorities flouted a federal detainer and released him from custody.</p>
<p>Federal agents waited for Munoz to pull out of his driveway at his home in Bloomington, Minnesota, before pulling him over, according to the court documents. The ICE officer pulled diagonally in front of Munoz&#8217;s vehicle as an FBI agent turned on his lights to prompt him to pull over.</p>
<p>That forced him to stop.</p>
<p>The ICE officer, alongside the FBI agent, then pulled behind the illegal immigrant&#8217;s vehicle, approached him, and identified themselves as federal law enforcement. The ICE officer was also donning a patch that read &#8220;POLICE&#8221; on his vest.</p>
<p>The officers had their weapons drawn as a precaution since Munoz initially refused to pull over.</p>
<p>When Munoz raised his hands, the ICE officer holstered his gun while the FBI agent kept his out, but aimed it down.</p>
<p>The ICE officer walked up to Munoz&#8217;s window and ordered him in both English and Spanish to put the car in park.</p>
<p>Munoz failed to do so and instead rolled his window a third of the way down. At that point, the ICE officer asked him for identification, which Munoz held up to the window.</p>
<p>After that, Munoz placed his car in park. The ICE officer asked Munoz to roll his window all the way, which he refused to do.</p>
<div id="attachment_1025305" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1025305" class="wp-image-1025305 size-medium" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-08-at-3.13.22-PM-300x105.png" alt="" width="300" height="105" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-08-at-3.13.22-PM-300x105.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-08-at-3.13.22-PM-1024x360.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-08-at-3.13.22-PM-768x270.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-08-at-3.13.22-PM.png 1190w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1025305" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT<br />FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA</p></div>
<p>That&#8217;s when the ICE officer pulled out his taser and pointed it at Munoz&#8217;s chest. Still, Munoz refused to lower the window fully and didn&#8217;t comply with orders to open the car door.</p>
<p>The ICE officer warned Munoz in both English and Spanish that he would break the window if he continued to ignore him. The illegal immigrant continued to dig in his heels, forcing the ICE officer to break the rear driver&#8217;s side window &#8220;to avoid covering Munoz in broken glass.&#8221;</p>
<p>The ICE officer then reached into the car and tried to unlock the driver&#8217;s side door as he continued pointing the taser at Munoz.</p>
<p>While the ICE officer&#8217;s arm was in the car, Munoz proceeded to put the car in drive before turning the wheel to the right to go around the vehicle in front of him and driving onto a curb, accelerating rapidly.</p>
<p>As Munoz proceeded &#8220;at a high rate of speed,&#8221; the ICE officer was dragged along with his arm stuck in the car.</p>
<p>That led the ICE officer to fire his taser at Munoz. Despite being struck twice with the electric charge, Munoz &#8220;was undeterred&#8221; and continued driving away as the ICE officer &#8220;screamed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Munoz then began weaving his vehicle in an attempt to shake the ICE officer away. The officer was ultimately able to break free when Munoz got off the curb and returned to the street where they were initially situated.</p>
<p>The illegal immigrant continued to flee. Authorities were eventually able to arrest Munoz, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/18/dhs-announces-arrest-illegal-alien-child-sex-offender-who-dragged-ice-officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security.</p>
<p>The ICE officer was hospitalized and received 20 stitches in his right arm and 13 in his left arm.</p>
<p>Munoz was later convicted of assaulting a federal officer.</p>


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How ICE Agent Who Shot Minneapolis Woman Handled Previous Ramming By An Illegal Immigrant Pedophile

Law Enforcement

<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers nabbed 54 members and associates of the Trinitarios Dominican gang who were operating across New York, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced during a press conference Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;During our investigation, we learned that these scumbags were affiliated with the transnational criminal organization, the notorious Trinitarios gang in New York. We began to target every single last person that is affiliated with them and recognized that they needed to be brought to justice,&#8221; Noem said.</p>
<p>&#8220;These arrests and these removals represent a significant blow to the criminal network that has been terrorizing communities right here in New York City and throughout the United States,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Among the gangbangers were individuals accused of weapons trafficking, human smuggling, narcotics distribution, and armed robberies, Noem said.</p>
<p>More than 60% of them have already been deported.</p>
<p>Authorities discovered that the illegal migrant men responsible for shooting an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in New York City in July were part of a notorious criminal gang, and immediately took to the streets to disrupt the criminal organization&#8217;s activities in what&#8217;s been dubbed &#8220;Operation Salvo.&#8221;</p>
<p>The two gang members allegedly responsible for shooting the CBP officer were released into the United States by the Biden administration before going on to commit multiple crimes, Noem said. Despite being shot in the wrist and the face while enjoying a quiet evening with a friend, the officer, who wishes to remain anonymous, fired back at the alleged assailants and miraculously survived.</p>
<p>The alleged shooter, Dominican Republic national Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, was arrested several times in New York City and in other parts of the country before the attack, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/illegal-migrant-arrested-in-nyc-shooting-of-off-duty-cpb-agent-was-free-despite-long-rap-sheet-and-suspected-in-scooter-robbery-spree-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.</p>
<p>In August 2024, he was arrested twice for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman and threatening to kill another migrant with a machete, according to the outlet. He was also wanted for kidnapping and weapons charges stemming from a pawn shop robbery in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Christhian Aybar-Berroa, 22, who was the shooter&#8217;s alleged accomplice, was arrested eight times by the NYPD and released each time after he had already received a deportation order.</p>
<p>Authorities said he was also a suspect in four more cases, the Post reported.</p>
<p>During Thursday&#8217;s presser, New York Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Ken Genalo blamed New York&#8217;s bail and sanctuary laws for the shooting.</p>
<p>&#8220;They provide safe haven for criminal illegal aliens,&#8221; Genalo said. &#8220;The lack of cooperation is unprecedented across the law enforcement spectrum, and rather than the city&#8217;s stated purpose to protect the immigrants of New York and the citizens of New York City, these misguided policies allow criminals to roam freely in our city, in our country, subjecting New Yorkers and all Americans to unnecessary harm.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noem also spoke to that issue.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those individuals would have never been in this country if they hadn&#8217;t been allowed in by the Biden administration when they ignored their federal laws and allowed them to come in illegally,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Noem said the operation is &#8220;just the beginning.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We are on offense, the Trump administration is using every single tool that we have to protect the American people,&#8221; she said.</p>


ICE Agents Make Arrests On Streets Of New York City Sparking Protests

Noem Announces Major Takedown Of Dominican Gang Behind Shooting Of CBP Officer In NYC

Noem Announces Major Takedown Of Dominican Gang Responsible For Shooting Off-Duty CBP Officer In NYC

New York City

<p>The fatal shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday involving federal immigration agents comes as threats against ICE agents surge, with both the number of assaults on agents and threats against them up by more than 1,000%.</p>
<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, speaking after an agent fatally shot a woman who accelerated her car towards the agent as they asked her to exit the vehicle, said that the agent involved had been rammed by a car in a previous encounter.</p>
<p>&#8220;ICE alone is facing a 1,300 % increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats against all of them. In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June. He sustained injuries at that time as well.&#8221;</p>
<p>His is just one of many documented assaults on ICE agents, who have been highly active in cities across the country during the Trump administration.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles, three of them happened here in Minneapolis,&#8221; Noem said on Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen over 100 of these vehicle rammings happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.&#8221;</p>
<p>Over the summer, on July 4, a militia of alleged Antifa members attempted to lure ICE officers out of an agency facility in north Texas by setting off fireworks. When the officers emerged, the attackers opened fire, injuring a local police officer, authorities say.</p>
<p>A nearby facility in Dallas was targeted in September by a shooter who stood on a nearby rooftop and fired into an ICE sally port where detainees were being moved. Although the shooter, who later turned the gun on himself, intended to kill ICE officers, he ended up killing two detainees.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire got a glimpse into the brutality of the attacks during an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-agent-brutally-injured-by-violent-illegal-immigrant-pedophile-speaks-out">earlier interview</a> with an ICE officer who had 13 stitches in his upper lip and second-degree burns across his body after an illegal immigrant pedophile he was trying to nab attacked him.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JennieSTaer</a> interviews ICE officers who were assaulted in the line of duty:</p>
<p>&#8220;We were stopping a vehicle&#8230;a passenger, as he ran, threw&#8230;a 32 oz Yeti style coffee cup into my face, full of hot coffee&#8230;2nd degree burns of my face, neck, arm, chest.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/iNQaWvjpjw">pic.twitter.com/iNQaWvjpjw</a></p>
<p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1986875456088404004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The officer, who recently returned to the agency after the Trump administration offered incentives to retirees, said: “It’s a lot different from the job I left … everybody’s running, everybody’s fighting,” he told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview Thursday.</p>
<p>“I would like the rhetoric to cool down a little bit, I think that’s probably fueled by some things that have been said about us,” he added.</p>
<p>The woman killed on Wednesday has been identified by her mother as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. Good&#8217;s mother claimed her daughter wasn&#8217;t involved in anti-ICE activities.</p>
<p>Video from the incident shows officers ordering her to get out of the vehicle, before she backed up the car and then moved it forward. The video appears to show the car making contact with the ICE office.</p>
<p>The officer, who the Department of Homeland Security said feared for his life, fired at the woman, killing her. The federal agent was transported to a nearby hospital and was later released.</p>
<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the incident an &#8220;act of domestic terrorism&#8221; and has defended the officer&#8217;s actions as self-defense.</p>


Federal Agents Descend On Minneapolis For Immigration Enforcement Operations

Minnesota Shooting Comes Amid Record Surge In Violent Threats And Assaults Against ICE Agents

<p>The woman who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.</p>
<p>Her Mother, Donna Ganger, said the family was notified of Good&#8217;s death late Wednesday morning and called the circumstances of her death &#8220;so stupid,&#8221; <a href="https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922">according</a> to The Minnesota Star Tribune.</p>
<p>“She was probably terrified,&#8221; Ganger said.</p>
<p>Ganger claimed that her daughter is “not part of anything like that at all” when asked if she&#8217;s part of the anti-ICE protests.</p>
<p>“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”</p>
<p>Before the woman was publicly identified, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose district the shooting took place in, said she was a &#8220;legal observer.&#8221;</p>
<p>President Donald Trump said Good &#8220;was very disorderly, obstructing, and resisting&#8221; before she &#8220;violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer,&#8221; who he said appeared to have shot her &#8220;in self defense.&#8221;</p>
<p>The woman was allegedly behind the wheel of a vehicle that appeared to be blocking a Minneapolis road that ICE officers were trying to drive through, according to video circulating online. The officers were seen approaching the woman as she sat in her vehicle and asked her to get out of the car.</p>
<p>The woman remained in her vehicle and was seen reversing it and then moving forward. One video appeared to show the vehicle rolling ahead and touching an ICE officer before shots were fired, killing the driver.</p>
<p>The shooting incident is still under investigation.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, anti-ICE protestors have taken to the streets and clashed with law enforcement, who have deployed crowd control measures, including tear gas.</p>
<p>Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has condemned the shooting, has mobilized members of the state National Guard to be at the ready in case the protests descend into further chaos.</p>
<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to Wednesday&#8217;s shooting with a harsh message, saying, “There is little I can say that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE,” Frey said. “To ICE, get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.</p>


Authorities Identify Woman Killed In Minneapolis ICE Shooting

<p>A &#8220;violent&#8221; agitator attempted to run over federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Wednesday before she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, the Department of Homeland Security said.</p>
<p>The streets of Minneapolis descended into chaos as anti-ICE demonstrators attempted to block federal authorities from conducting immigration raids in the area. One of the protesters then allegedly &#8220;weaponized her vehicle&#8221; and tried to plow over agents with her car &#8220;in an attempt to kill them,&#8221; DHS said.</p>
<p>An ICE officer, who was &#8220;fearing for his life,&#8221; fired &#8220;defensive shots&#8221; at the female agitator, who succumbed to her injuries, according to the agency. One federal law enforcement source told The Daily Wire that the woman took a bullet to the face.</p>
<p>Video has since surfaced <a href="https://x.com/maxnesterak/status/2008961959731859757?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearing</a> to show the officers approaching the woman and asking her to get out of her car. She then backs up the car and attempts to drive away before an officer standing in front of the car fires multiple shots into the vehicle.</p>
<p>Some federal agents were injured, but are expected &#8220;to make full recoveries.&#8221;</p>
<p>DHS has labeled the incident &#8220;an act of domestic terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats,&#8221; the agency said on X.</p>
<p>Demonstrators further <a href="https://x.com/Dymanh/status/2008953959160127509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">clashed</a> with federal agents and were seen throwing snowballs at them as they attempted to block their operations, <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/police-swarm-scene-federal-law-enforcement-shooting-minneapolis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to FOX 9. The agents responded by deploying what appeared to be chemical agents to control the angry mob.</p>
<p>Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the incident by calling on ICE to &#8220;leave the city immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The Trump administration deployed roughly 2,000 federal agents to Minnesota for the first operation of 2026.</p>


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<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s recent arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro marks the ousting of an authoritarian whose rule triggered a mass exodus of his own people to the United States.</p>
<p>With Maduro sitting in a federal prison in New York, the fate of the country remains uncertain. On Monday, Maduro&#8217;s second-in-command, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as Venezuela&#8217;s interim president.</p>
<p>Rodríguez claimed that she plans to work with the United States in the coming months.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump, however, has said that the United States is “in charge” of Venezuela and that elections would be held “at the right time.”</p>
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<p>If Trump can get a democratically-elected government in place in Venezuela that is more willing to work with the United States, it could both boost his mass deportation effort and thwart the possibility of a surge in mass migration, experts told The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of these people were given parole into the U.S. because of the conditions in Venezuela &#8230; well, that&#8217;s no longer going to be necessary, so a lot more people can be sent back. And they&#8217;ll have lesser claims to say, &#8216;If I go back, I&#8217;ll be tortured&#8217; &#8230; assuming another government is in place,&#8221; former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Jonathan Fahey said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lots of people are going to be going home, and quickly, and there will not be pushback from whoever&#8217;s in charge of Venezuela,&#8221; Fahey said.</p>
<p>Venezuelan departures from the United States &#8220;will accelerate some&#8221; if and when the country sees stability, according to Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, who said it&#8217;s &#8220;only going to happen if the Trump administration succeeds in being able to end TPS [Temporary Protected Status] and people&#8217;s asylum claims don&#8217;t succeed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Following Maduro&#8217;s capture, the Trump administration has encouraged the roughly 500,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status it revoked to leave the United States on their own.</p>
<p>Andrés Martínez-Fernández, senior policy analyst for Latin America at The Heritage Foundation, warned that it could potentially take years to get to a point where there is a significant change in migration patterns.</p>
<p>&#8220;We may have more cooperation as far as repatriation, but as far as people voluntarily going back, which I think many people would under the right circumstances, we&#8217;re pretty far away still from those circumstances,&#8221; Martínez-Fernández said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We still have all of the elements really of the regime in place, the repressive apparatus, the economic crisis, and I think many will be rightfully concerned that not enough has changed to really at all change the situation on the ground for people,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>If elections were held and resulted in &#8220;the full transition out of this regime,&#8221; it could be &#8220;a trigger event for a lot of people to return,&#8221; Martínez-Fernández said.</p>
<p>Vaughan also pointed to the possibility of better information sharing with Venezuela if there is a more American-aligned government in place. The Maduro regime refused to share any information on the criminal histories of its citizens who were crossing the border under the Biden administration.</p>
<p>As a result, border agents were left to release them en masse without knowing who they really were. One of those Venezuelan border jumpers was Jose Ibarra, who went on to brutally murder Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February 2024 while she was out for a run.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we can again have a functioning relationship with the government of Venezuela, that enables us to share information and do some appropriate vetting on people who are coming in,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Martínez-Fernández, however, said that the next leader of Venezuela would have to create criminal databases from scratch since previous regimes, like Maduro&#8217;s, likely didn&#8217;t even keep such records.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very unlikely that the Venezuelan government has that in any substantial way,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;That would have to be something that they build up, which I think would be a monumental task for this skeletal regime,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>With Maduro out of power, the Trump administration also hasn&#8217;t stopped deportations to the South American country, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire Monday.</p>
<p>That will likely roll on at an even greater pace if and when there is a new leader.</p>
<p>&#8220;I fully expect Venezuela will be very cooperative with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the U.S. government, considering how things went with Maduro, so I actually expect it to be a lot smoother &#8230; or more voluminous than it was before,&#8221; Fahey said.</p>


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