Trump officials announce ‘largest operation in DHS history’ as 800 border agents flood into city alongside ICE
Federal officers in Minneapolis used teargas and eye irritant against activists on Tuesday as the Department of Homeland Security announced it was carrying out “its largest operation in DHS history”, deploying hundreds of border agents on top of the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents already in the city.
A DHS official told CBS News that there were currently 800 Customs and Border Protection agents and 2,000 ICE officials in the Minneapolis area as tensions have risen in recent days.
“This is the largest DHS operation in history,” the official told the news outlet.
The surge comes on the same day several federal prosecutors in the state and in Washington resigned in protest over the justice department’s decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.
