President speaks to CBS News about killing of woman by ICE agent and defends immigration crackdown
Donald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough” actions justified a lethal response.
Trump’s comments, made during an interview with CBS News after touring a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, came as tensions continue to rise in Minneapolis days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good at the wheel of her SUV on a residential street last week.
The shooting set off nationwide protests and prompted six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to resign in protest over the justice department’s decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the incident.
In the interview on Tuesday afternoon, the CBS anchor, Tony Dokoupil, told Trump that he had spoke to Good’s father, a strong supporterof the president’s, who was “heartbroken” over his daughter’s death – and over the administration’s characterization of Good as a “domestic terrorist”. Asked what Trump would say to the grieving father, the US president replied: “I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person. But, you know, her actions were pretty tough.”
