• Anti-ICE protests: Protesters are gathering outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in the Minneapolis area, part of the nationwide demonstrations expected today against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts. Organizers are calling for a boycott of school, work and shopping. It comes as White House border czar Tom Homan ordered federal immigration authorities to work on a drawdown plan for law enforcement in Minnesota.
• Don Lemon in custody: The former CNN anchor was taken into custody, according to his attorney, in connection to a protest in which dozens of anti-ICE demonstrators rushed into a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, leading to tense confrontations. Independent journalist Georgia Fort, who was filming the protest, also was taken into custody.
• Alex Pretti shooting: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said she was using “the best information we had at the time” when making initial statements about Pretti’s killing.
• Trump on Pretti: In a social post, Trump said Pretti appeared “crazed” during a separate confrontation with federal agents 11 days before his death, calling him an “agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist.” Pretti’s family has previously said nothing could justify his death.
As President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has whisked through major US cities, trial-level judges attempting to restrain the frenzied actions of federal agents have been repeatedly slapped down by higher courts – often with the help of judges the president put on the bench in his first term.
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