Some flyers could soon experience longer lines at U.S. airports after the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday confirmed it would suspend the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck and Global Entry programs as the agency contends with a partial government shutdown that has entered its second week.
According to DHS officials, TSA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency entered emergency operating status at 6 a.m. ET Sunday. FEMA will suspend all non-disaster-related responses, while all TSA pre-check and all courtesies for members of Congress and family police escorts at airports have been suspended.
FEMA and TSA will resume normal operations when the shutdown concludes, DHS said.
Customs and Border Protection will also be suspending Global Entry, and all officers assigned to process Global Entry travelers will be reassigned to process all other arriving travelers.
In a statement provided to CBS News late Saturday night, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that TSA and CBP “are prioritizing the general traveling population at our airports and ports of entry and suspending courtesy and special privilege escorts.”
The partial shutdown took effect on Feb. 14 after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on DHS funding over opposition from Democrats who demanded changes to the agency in the wake of the deadly shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month by federal immigration agents.
Along with the TSA, the partial shutdown is impacting the FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and other agencies within DHS that safeguard national security. About 13% of the total federal civilian workforce is implicated.
The move drew criticism from Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security.
“These nitwits are at it again,” Thompson said in a statement, accusing President Trump and Noem of “purposely punishing the American people and using them as pawns for their sadistic political games. TSA PreCheck and Global Entry REDUCE airport lines and ease the burden on DHS staff who are working without pay because of Trump’s abuse of the Department and killing of American citizens.”
TSA PreCheck is a membership program that allows travelers to speed through airport security screenings more quickly after first submitting an application, undergoing a TSA background check and paying a fee. Only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are eligible. As of 2024, more than 20 million people were enrolled in TSA PreCheck.
Global Entry is a similar U.S. Customs and Border Protection program designed for those who frequently travel internationally. Along with U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, it is also available to citizens of nearly two dozen other countries.
Noem, meanwhile, citing the powerful winter storm that is expected to hit the Northeast Sunday, also said in her statement that FEMA would be halting “all non-disaster related response to prioritize disasters.”
“This is particularly important given this weekend another significant winter storm is forecast to impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States,” Noem said.
The partial shutdown follows a 43-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, that ended in November. That shutdown was driven primarily by a demand from Democrats that expiring health insurance tax credits under the Affordable Care Act be extended. TSA employees were forced to work without pay during that time — receiving backpay when the shutdown ended — and are now doing the same again.
A former Minnesota corrections officer is facing deportation and criminal charges that accuse him of more than a decade of citizenship deception.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, 45-year-old Morris Brown was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis on Jan. 15.
DHS said the Liberian national last entered the U.S. in 2014 with a nonimmigrant student visa, which was terminated the following year because Brown failed to enroll in a full course of study.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow claimed Brown “tried every trick in the book” to stay in the country after losing his legal status.
“We will use every tool at our disposal to ensure he faces justice for his many violations of the law,” Edlow said.
Federal officials said they found out during Operation Twin Shield last September that Brown was working as a Minnesota corrections officer. The operation targeted immigration fraud in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area.
DHS said Brown now faces removal proceedings and possible criminal prosecution for immigration fraud, false claims to U.S. citizenship and other related offenses.
In a statement, the Minnesota Department of Corrections said it has cooperated with the investigation and followed federal document verification requirements while hiring Brown. He worked for them from May 2023 until last October.
“If these federal allegations are accurate, this individual engaged in sophisticated efforts to misrepresent their identity, extending well beyond Minnesota,” DOC Commissioner Paul Schnell said. “We are grateful to USCIS and ICE for their work in investigating and addressing immigration fraud.”
Brown is also accused of joining the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 2014 and going AWOL the next year. DHS officials said he was taken into custody and discharged from the military “under other than honorable conditions in 2022.” Two years after the discharge, Brown applied to naturalize as a U.S. citizen based on prior military service in what DHS alleged was “another commission of fraud.”
According to ICE records, Brown is now at an immigration facility in El Paso. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.
Some Democratic Minnesota lawmakers will gather at the State Capitol on Presidents Day to urge their Republican colleagues to stand against what they call President Trump’s “abuse of power.”
How to watch:
What: Minnesota DFL lawmakers call on GOP to stand against President Trump’s “abuse of power”
Who: Sen. Erin Maye Quade, Rep. Leigh Finke and others
When: 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 16.
How to watch: In the video player above, and streamed in full on YouTube.
According to organizers, DFL Party members will be joined by some Minnesotans who “have been harmed” by the actions of federal immigration officers during Operation Metro Surge, including some Republican constituents.
This event comes one day after White House border czar Tom Homan announced on CBS News’ “Meet the Press” that around 1,000 immigration officers have left Minnesota since he announced the operation’s end last week. He also said several hundred more are expected to leave in the coming days.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty says she will be sending a letter this week to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to demand they turn over evidence in the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Pretti by immigration officers in south Minneapolis.
In that non-fatal case, Homeland Security claims three undocumented men attacked a federal agent with a snow shovel and a broom, and that fearing for his life, the agent shot one of the men in the leg.
Moriarty says an evidence submission portal she created with the backing of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has been allowing the public to submit evidence including videos and eyewitness accounts.
DHS has argued Minnesota doesn’t have jurisdiction over federal agents because under the Constitution’s supremacy clause. Moriarty says that doesn’t apply if agents broke the law.
“I think evidence that is more compelling than having the gun or the shell casings is actually the autopsy reports on both [Good and Pretti],” Moriarty said. “Because for instance in [Renee Good’s case], that would tell us how many times she was shot, the angle, the direction of those shots and which shots were fatal.”
Washington — Unless there’s a last-minute breakthrough, another partial government shutdown is due to begin at midnight after the Senate failed to advance a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.
In a 52 to 47 vote, all but one Democrat — Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — opposed moving forward with the bill, which would fund DHS through September. The motion needed 60 votes to succeed. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, voted against the motion in a procedural move that allows him to bring it up again.
Funding for DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, is set to lapse at 12 a.m. Saturday. ICE and CBP would continue operating if that happens, since they received billions of dollars in separate funding last year.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said his caucus would vote against moving forward because the bill “fails to make any progress on reining in ICE and stopping the violence.”
Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican who has led the negotiations with Democrats and the White House, sought to approve a two-week funding extension by unanimous consent after the failed vote.
“Two weeks ago we agreed to extend funding while we talked and tried to find a pathway forward. However, the timeline we knew was going to be short,” Britt said. “We are working in good faith to find a pathway forward. What we’re asking is, let us continue to do that.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, objected.
“I wish we weren’t here. I wish our Republican colleagues and the White House had shown more seriousness from the start,” Murphy said. “But Senate Democrats have been clear that we have all taken an oath, an oath to uphold the law of the country, and this Department of Homeland Security, this ICE, is out of control.”
Democrats and Republicans have been negotiating reforms to ICE and CBP, but the two sides have failed to reach an agreement. The White House sent a legislative proposal for full-year funding late Wednesday, days after Democrats sent their own draft bill. On Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, told CBS News that his “preliminary assessment” of the latest offer “is that it falls short of the type of dramatic changes necessary in order to change ICE’s out-of-control behavior.”
Last week, in a letter to their GOP counterparts, Democratic leadership laid out a list of their demands for ICE reforms. Congressional Democrats have demanded changes to ICE and CBP in exchange for their votes to fund DHS since Alex Pretti was shot and killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis last month.
Democrats want to restrict immigration agents from wearing masks, require them to wear identification and body cameras and standardize their uniforms and equipment. They also want to ban racial profiling, require judicial warrants to enter private property and bar immigration enforcement at medical facilities, schools, child care facilities, churches, polling places and courts. And they pushed to impose “reasonable” use-of-force standards; allow state and local jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute “excessive force;” and introduce safeguards into the detention system.
President Trump told reporters Thursday afternoon that some of the Democrats’ demands are “very, very hard to approve.”
Thune told reporters Thursday morning that he thought the White House’s latest offer is “pretty close” to getting into the “agreement zone.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2026.
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“I think it’s up to the Dems to react to this,” Thune said. “Right now, at least there ought to be an understanding that these discussions need to continue, and that a solution is at least in sight.”
Still, senators are leaving town after Thursday and are set to be away from Washington on recess next week. And Thune said he doesn’t see the benefit of keeping senators around as talks continue.
“If and when there’s a breakthrough, we’ll make sure people are here to vote on it,” Thune said. The GOP leader told CBS News that senators would be expected to return within 24 hours or as soon as possible if a deal is reached.
Schumer said Democratic negotiators “will be available 24/7” to continue discussions once the White House and Republicans are ready to “get serious.”
“Today’s strong vote was a shot across the bow to Republicans,” Schumer said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
Along with funding for the immigration enforcement agencies, DHS also oversees the Coast Guard, FEMA and TSA, all of which would be impacted by a lapse in funding. ICE and CBP operations would continue because they received an influx of funds in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The impasse over DHS funding led to a four-day-long partial government shutdown earlier this month. Lawmakers ultimately agreed to fund every government agency except DHS until the end of the fiscal year. They also extended DHS funding for two weeks to buy more time for negotiations.
Democratic California Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, laid out four of the report’s key findings:
“The Trump Administration’s extreme policies, violent tactics, and culture of impunity led to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.”
“The Trump Administration’s lies about the killings cannot cover up what the American people saw with their own eyes.”
“The available evidence suggests that the Trump Administration is attempting to cover up misconduct.”
“The Trump Administration is continuing its cover-up by impeding thorough and impartial investigations into the shootings.”
The report also highlights how evidence counters the administration’s initial claims that both victims were domestic terrorists aiming to harm federal law enforcement.
“Let’s be clear: the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti could have been prevented, and they should both still be alive,” Garcia wrote. “President Trump, [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, and [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] have lied over and over again and are now trying to cover up the truth. The Trump Administration needs to be held accountable.”
In a statement to WCCO, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended the work of federal officers.
“Federal law enforcement officers are heroically removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities – including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. The Trump Administration is grateful for their important work,” Jackson said.
WCCO has also reached out to Homeland Security for comment.
The committee, chaired by Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, is currently comprised of 44 representatives: 24 Republicans and 20 Democrats.
Republican members include Reps. Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Virginia Foxx, Pete Sessions, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert. Its Democratic members include Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kwesisi Mfume, Shontel Brown, Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.
Good’s brothers, Brent and Luke Ganger, testified Tuesday at a public Congressional forum co-led by Garcia on “the violent tactics and disproportionate use of force by agents of the Department of Homeland Security.”
The Trump administration said a large number of undocumented immigrants are choosing to voluntarily leave the country before ICE steps in.
The federal government is now paying $2,600 to undocumented immigrants to self-deport if they use the Customs and Border Protection Home App. That’s up from $1,000 when the initiative started a year ago. On top of that stipend is a free flight to their home country.
The big bump was announced in celebration of President Trump’s first year in office, which apparently included a huge number of undocumented immigrants voluntarily leaving.
If you ask the federal government, 2.2 million people have self-deported since January 2025. That equates to roughly 14% of the total estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Several research groups have questioned the Department of Homeland Security’s data. The Center for Migration Studies did a deep dive into how the DHS came up with 2.2 million.
The Center for Migration Studies estimates the true number of self-deportations to be around 200,000 in the past year, roughly one-tenth of what the federal government claims.
WCCO reached out to DHS to understand how its data is sourced, but has yet to hear back.
The Brookings Institution released a report last month regarding DHS’s deportation numbers, stating the federal agency’s data “should not be considered a serious source for an estimate of net migration.”
With the new $2,600 stipend, DHS said the cost of a single self-deportation is $5,100. That’s significantly less than the cost to arrest, detain and deport an undocumented immigrant, which DHS said costs more than $18,000.
“There’s other ways to self-deport without using that app. There’s also ways to request something called voluntary departure,” said Kelly Clark, an immigration attorney who has helped clients voluntarily leave the country.
Under the previous presidential administration, Clark said undocumented people who wanted to self-deport would simply leave, especially if they didn’t have any active court cases related to their immigration status.
The CPB Home app, however, is the only way to get money and a free flight when self-deporting. Those with criminal records are not eligible to register.
“There are some certain circumstances where I would probably have to advise that by putting their information in that system, they are notifying the government of where they are and who they are. And if they do have some kind of negative immigration history or depending on their criminal record, they could make themselves more of a target by registering,” Clark said.
While she couldn’t speak to the DHS claim of 2.2 million self-deportation cases, Clark said the number of clients contemplating self-deportation is rising. That includes people with legal work permits or pending asylum cases. She said they’d rather leave on their own accord than risk an ICE arrest.
“Some people who feel like they’re stuck in their homes and they’re not able to work, they just don’t know how they’re going to survive if they stay here,” she said. “That is a deep fear with our client community, their friends and family, is that even though they might have some kind of case pending or work permit, they’re really not protected.”
The Department of Homeland Security released its latest list of the “worst of the worst” arrested in Minnesota. The feds say those are the people they’re targeting in Operation Metro Surge.
They called them kidnappers, pedophiles, violent assailants, and perpetrators of fraud. WCCO found court records on three of the five men and the information released on them is mostly accurate.
DHS says Ian Irungu is from Kenya and was convicted of selling heroin and dangerous drugs.
WCCO found he was convicted of selling drugs in Ramsey County and Kanabec County. The charging documents list fentanyl and marijuana as the drugs, with him being accused of being a heroin and fentanyl dealer.
He first had contact with law enforcement in Minnesota in 2014 during a traffic violation.
The feds say Melvin Hernandez Espana is from Honduras and was convicted of assault. WCCO found he was convicted of assault in Ramsey County. Court records show he first had contact with law enforcement in Minnesota in 2015 for driving without a license.
DHS says Oliverio Francisco-Esteban, from Mexico, has been removed from the U.S. five times. It also lists three counts of driving under the influence and illegal entry. Court documents show this is true.
WCCO could not verify the claim of possessing fraudulent immigration documents.
WCCO also could not find Minnesota or federal documents related to the other two, who are in custody. It’s possible the convictions happened in another state.
This is data on the names they released. WCCO has no way to check the criminal history of others arrested on Monday because the names have not been released.
DHS has a “worst of the worst” page where you can see who’s on that list and who has been arrested in Minnesota and across the country.
“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling —and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE,” Schumer said in a statement. “I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”
In the Senate, the DHS funding measure was expected to be packaged with the other legislation that funds key federal departments in hopes the Senate passes the measures together before the Jan. 30 deadline to fund the government.
To advance the legislation, Republicans will likely need eight Democrats to vote for the legislation, since Sen. Rand Paul has generally voted against appropriations bills. If the funding package does not pass the Senate, there will be another partial government shutdown.
But on Sunday, Schumer called for the six-bill funding package to be broken up, allowing the Senate to pass the non-DHS portions “while we work to rewrite the DHS bill.”
Schumer’s comments come after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 37-year-old man in south Minneapolis Saturday morning. Saturday’s shooting comes after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7 in South Minneapolis as well. Both victims are American citizens, and video of both incidents have spread quickly online.
Family identified the victim in Saturday’s shooting as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care nurse living in Minneapolis. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a news conference that the man who was killed “approached” U.S. Border Patrol officers while they were conducting “targeted” immigration enforcement operations, with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Noem said officers attempted to disarm him, but he “reacted violently,” and “fearing for his life and the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.”
Nevada Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, who were two of the eight Democrats who voted against their party to end the 43-day government shutdown last year, both said Saturday that they will not support the measure funding DHS. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, another one of those eight Democrats, already said Friday he would not support funding DHS.
Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats and had consistently voted to keep the government open during the last shutdown, said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that he would not vote to fund DHS.
“I can’t vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances — what they’re doing in my state, what we saw yesterday in Minneapolis,” he said.
King suggested separating out DHS funding from the rest of the appropriations package to avoid a shutdown. “If those bills passed, 96% of the federal government is funded,” King added.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Saturday evening she “will NOT support the DHS bill as it stands.”
Several other Democratic senators on Saturday did not support funding DHS, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Mark Warner of Virginia, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Andy Kim of New Jersey, Alex Padilla of California and Jon Ossoff of Georgia.
Murphy and Padilla, along with a small group of Democratic senators, have spent the past two days calling colleagues to whip opposition to the DHS funding bill, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Senate Democrats are expected to hold a caucus call on the issue Sunday evening, a source told CBS News.
Although several House Democrats supported the bills to fund the government, prominent House Democrats on Saturday called on the upper chamber to reject the bill.
“DHS just shot a man in broad daylight two weeks after they shot a mother in the face without consequence,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York posted on social media Saturday. “They need our votes to continue. We cannot give it to them. Every Senator should vote NO.”
And Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, in a debate Saturday in the race for the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, reasserted that she “absolutely voted against” funding DHS.
“There was no way I was going to continue to pump a historic amount of money into this rogue organization that is going out and is violating people’s rights every single day on American cities,” Crockett said.
A handful of Republicans in Congress also spoke out following the shooting.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, called the events in Minneapolis “incredibly disturbing,” arguing that the “credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake” and calling for a joint federal and state investigation.
GOP Rep. Michael Baumgartner of Washington likewise said he’s “disturbed” by what he’s seen in Minnesota, while lauding the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee for seeking testimony from ICE leaders and other officials.
The deadly Minneapolis shootings have occurred amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city in recent weeks. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday that the state “has had it,” and he called on the Trump administration to pull ICE agents from Minneapolis, characterizing their efforts an “absolute abomination.”
The Trump administration has deployed 3,000 federal agents from ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection throughout Minnesota as part of “Operation Metro Surge.” Tensions between the federal agents and residents are high, especially after the Jan. 7 shooting and an altercation after an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan migrant in the leg last week.
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday in Minneapolis that many of those officers are not even doing targeted immigration enforcement, but instead are stepping in to protect ICE officers from clashes with protesters. He blamed a “failure of cooperation” by local and state authorities for the rising tensions.
On Friday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Twin Cities to protest Operation Metro Surge, and hundreds of businesses closed in solidarity.
Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino continued to defend the actions of federal agents during a news conference on Sunday in the deadly shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis on Saturday. CBS News’ Lilia Luciano and Nicole Sganga have more.
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Videos and eyewitness accounts of a Border Patrol agent’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis are differing from Trump administration statements. Lana Zak has the latest.
Bystander videos verified by CBS News show the scene from multiple angles, starting shortly before the encounter that ended in the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an American citizen who worked as an ICU nurse.
The events unfolded at around 9 a.m. Saturday. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said officers were pursuing a man in the country illegally who was wanted for domestic assault. Protesters have been trying to disrupt such operations amid an ongoing federal immigration crackdown, and a group of people in the area sounded high-pitched whistles, honked horns and yelled out at the officers.
Among them was Pretti. At one point, video shows Pretti standing in the street and holding up his phone with his right hand; his left hand appears empty.
A screengrab from a video obtained by Reuters shows a man identified as Alex Pretti using a cellphone to record video moments before he was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026.
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He comes face-to-face with an officer in a tactical vest, who places his hand on Pretti and pushes him toward the sidewalk. Pretti is talking to the officer, though it is not clear what he is saying.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later said Pretti “approached” officers with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, but did not say whether he “brandished” the weapon. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said he was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.
Videos filmed before the shooting show Pretti did not have a gun in his hands.
Protesters can be seen wandering in and out of the street as officers persist in trying to talk them back. One protester is put in handcuffs. Some officers are carrying pepper spray canisters.
Pretti comes into view again when the video shows an officer wearing tactical gear shoving a protester. The protester, who is wearing a skirt over black tights and holding a water bottle, reaches out for Pretti.
The same officer shoves Pretti in his chest, leading Pretti and the other protester to stumble backward.
A different video then shows Pretti moving toward another protester, who falls over after being shoved by the same officer.
A screengrab from a video obtained by Reuters shows a law enforcement officer spraying irritants at a man identified as Alex Pretti, before he was fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026.
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Pretti moves between the protester and the officer, reaching his arms out toward the officer. The officer deploys pepper spray, and Pretti raises his hand and turns his face. The officer grabs Pretti’s hand to bring it behind his back, and deploys the pepper spray canister again and then pushes Pretti away.
Seconds later, at least a half-dozen federal officers surround Pretti, who is wrestled to the ground and hit several times. Several agents try to bring Pretti’s arms behind his back, and he struggles.
A screengrab from a video obtained by Reuters shows a federal officer pinning down a man, identified as Alex Pretti, before he was fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026.
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Videos show an officer in a gray jacket, who is hovering over the scuffle with his right hand on Pretti’s back, reaching into the scuffle empty-handed and then backing away from the group with what appears to be a gun in his right hand.
Someone shouts “gun, gun.” It is not clear if that’s a reference to the weapon authorities say Pretti had.
The agent is holding that gun and turning away from the man when the first shot is fired. Videos show the agent in the gray jacket then running across the street as numerous shots can be heard.
Videos do not clearly show who fired the first shot. In one video, seconds before the first shot, one officer reaches for his belt and appears to draw his gun. That same officer is seen with a gun to Pretti’s back as three more shots ring out. Pretti slumps to the ground. Videos show the officers backing away, some with guns drawn.
At a briefing Saturday afternoon, Noem shared an image of the gun she said was recovered. She said officers attempted to disarm the man but he “reacted violently,” and “fearing for his life and the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shows a picture of a firearm she said was carried by the man who was killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who said he watched one of several videos, said he saw “more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents, shooting him to death.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said, “I’ve seen the videos, from several angles, and it’s sickening.”
Sworn statements from witnesses
Sworn declarations submitted in federal court Saturday night by people who said they witnessed the shooting contradict key points of the events presented by federal officials.
One witness described seeing Pretti observing and filming the scene “just with his camera out. I didn’t see him reach for or hold a gun.”
An agent “shoved one of the other observers to the ground” and then pepper sprayed several people, the witness said. “The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.”
The witness continued: “The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn’t see him touch any of them — he wasn’t even turned toward them. It didn’t look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn’t see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.”
Another witness, a pediatrician, described watching out their apartment window and seeing “one civilian … yelling at the ICE agents, but I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind.”
Suddenly, the witness said, an agent “shoved him to the ground. My view of the altercation was partially obstructed, but after a few seconds, I saw at least four agents point guns at the man. Then I saw the agents shoot the man six or seven times.”
“Initially I was stunned,” the witness continued. “From what I could see from my apartment, there was absolutely no need for any violence, let alone lethal force by multiple officers.”
The witness then described rushing down to the scene, telling officers they were a doctor and performing CPR until an EMS crew arrived. The man had at least four bullet wounds and no pulse, the witness said.
School district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, say their sense of security is shaken and their hearts shattered after four students from the district were recently taken by officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Columbia Heights Public School District says two children were taken on Tuesday, including a 17-year-old boy on his way to school. He was removed from his car and taken away.
Then in the afternoon, 5-year-old Liam Ramos was taken with his father while in their driveway after just arriving home from his preschool classroom. School officials say the child was used as bait to knock on the door and ask to be let in, letting officers see if anyone else was home.
“Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” said Superintendent Zena Stenvik.
The Department of Homeland Security later said that the child was not targeted by ICE, but was “abandoned” by his father. It said his father fled federal agents as they approached his vehicle, leaving the child. DHS said the father, whom they described as an illegal alien from Ecuador, was later taken into custody as other ICE officers stayed with the child.
School officials say there was an adult there who offered to take the child, but ICE did not allow that.
Federal officials said on Thursday that the boy and his father are together at an immigration processing center in Dilley, Texas.
An attorney for the Ramos family, Marc Prokosch, and the school district deny that Liam was abandoned by his father.
Prokosch said Liam and his father entered the U.S. legally from Ecuador and Liam’s father doesn’t appear to have a criminal record.
The Ecuadorian government said its consulate in Minneapolis contacted ICE as soon as it got word that Liam was being held, adding that it is “monitoring the situation of the child in order to safeguard their safety and well-being.”
Two weeks ago, a 10-year-old student in fourth grade was taken by ICE agents on her way to elementary school with her mother. During the arrest, the child called her father on the phone to tell her that ICE agents were bringing her to school. The father then came to the school to find out that both his daughter and wife had been taken.
School officials say both children and their parents are being held in a detention center in Texas. They say Liam Ramos’ family is following U.S. legal parameters and has an active asylum case with no order of deportation.
The school officials also said they don’t know what happened. They want the public to get involved as this is happening to students all across the state of Minnesota.
“We are asking to please reach out to your congressional representative to ask for an immediate and peaceful resolution to this occupation,” Stenvik said. “Please help us and other schools to again be a safe place where all belong and all succeed.”
The district also has an immigration lawyer to help figure out how to get the students back to Minnesota.
In a rare primetime address Wednesday evening, Gov. Tim Walz gave a six-minute-long address to Minnesotans where he called on President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “end this occupation.”
“What’s happening in Minnesota right now defies belief,” Walz said. “News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities.”
On Tuesday, Homeland Security officials told CBS News there are now 800 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the Minneapolis area. That’s in addition to 2,000 other ICE and federal agents already in the state in what officials call the “largest DHS operation in history.”
“Donald Trump intends for it to get worse. This week, he went online to promise that quote, ‘the day of retribution and reckoning is coming,’” Walz said in his addresss. “That’s a direct threat against the people of this state who dared to vote against him three times and who continue to stand up for freedom with courage and empathy and profound grace.”
The governor went on to urge Minnesotans to “protest loudly, urgently, but also peacefully.” He also called on residents to “peacefully film ICE agents.”
“If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record,” Walz said. “Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.”
Walz also expressed pride for his fellow Minnesotans, calling the state “an island of decency in a country being driven towards cruelty.”
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“We will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, of peace, and tonight I come before you simply to ask, don’t let anyone take that away from us,” he said.
Walz gives a constitutionally-required annual address before the Legislature, known as the “State of the State.” But other statewide addresses that the governor has planned happen infrequently.
His staff notes that he addressed residents during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder.
Menendez said she would not issue that restraining order until after the federal government filed its response and the state made additional filings.
The hearing is part of a larger federal lawsuit by the state and cities attempting to get the federal government to halt all law enforcement operations in Minnesota.
What’s happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities.
Two-thousand to 3,000 armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live.
Let’s be very, very clear: this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.
Last week, that campaign claimed the life of Renee Nicole Good. We’ve all watched the video. We’ve all seen what happened, and yet instead of conducting an impartial investigation so we can hold accountable the officer responsible for Renee’s death, the Trump administration is devoting the full power of the federal government to finding an excuse to attack the victim and her family.
Just yesterday, six federal prosecutors, including the longtime career prosecutor leading the charge to investigate and eliminate fraud in our state’s programs, quit their jobs rather than go along with this assault on the United States Constitution.
But as bad as it’s been, Donald Trump intends for it to get worse. This week, he went online to promise that quote, the day of retribution and reckoning is coming.
That’s a direct threat against the people of this state who dared to vote against him three times and who continue to stand up for freedom with courage and empathy and profound grace.
All across Minnesota people are stepping up to help their neighbors who are being unjustly and unlawfully targeted. They’re distributing care packages and walking kids to school and raising their voices in peaceful protest, even though doing so has made many of our fellow Minnesotans targets for violent retribution.
Folks, I know it’s scary, and I know it’s absurd that we all have to defend law and order, justice and humanity while also caring for our families and trying to do our jobs.
So tonight, let me say once again to Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: End this occupation. You’ve done enough.
Let me say four critical things to the people of Minnesota, four things I want you to hear as you watch the news and look out for your neighbors:
First, Donald Trump wants this chaos. He wants confusion, and yes, he wants more violence on our streets. We cannot give him what he wants.
We can, we must protest loudly, urgently, but also peacefully. Indeed, as hard as we will fight in the courts and at the ballot box, we cannot and will not let violence prevail.
You’re angry. I’m angry. Angry is not a strong enough word, but we must remain peaceful.
Second, you are not powerless, you are not helpless, and you are certainly not alone. All across Minnesota, people are learning about opportunities not just to resist, but to help people who are in danger.
Thousands upon thousands of our fellow Minnesotans are going to be relying on mutual aid in the days and weeks to come, and they need our support.
Tonight I wanna share another way you can help: witness. Help us establish a record of exactly what’s happening in our communities.
You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct these activities, so carry your phone with you at all times, and if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record.
Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.
The third thing I want to say to you tonight is we will not have to live like this forever. Accountability is coming at the voting booth and in court.
We will reclaim our communities from Donald Trump. We will reestablish a sense of safety for our neighbors, and we will bring an end to this moment of chaos, confusion and trauma.
We will find a way to move forward and we’ll do it together. And will not be alone. Every day we are working with business leaders, faith leaders, legal experts and elected officials from across this country. They’ve all seen what Donald Trump is trying to do to our state, and they know their states could be next.
And that brings me to the fourth thing I wanna say tonight Minnesota, how incredibly proud I am of the way that you’ve risen to meet this unbearable moment. But I’m not at all surprised because this, this is who we are.
Minnesotans believe in the rule of law, and Minnesotans believe in the dignity of all people. We’re a place where there’s room for everybody, no matter who you are or who you love or where you came from. A place where we feed our kids, we take care of our neighbors and we look out for those in the shadows of life.
We’re an island of decency in a country being driven towards cruelty. We will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, of peace, and tonight I come before you simply to ask, don’t let anyone take that away from us.
Thank you. Protect each other, and may God bless the people of Minnesota.
The state of Minnesota, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, are suing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials in an effort to stop the surge of federal law enforcement officials coming into the state.
State officials said the lawsuit, filed on Monday, is asking the federal court to “end the unprecedented surge of DHS agents into the state and declare it unconstitutional and unlawful.”
The lawsuit, according to officials, also asks the court for a temporary restraining order, citing the immediate harm the state and cities are facing.
“We allege that the surge, reckless impact on our schools, on our local law enforcement, is a violation of the 10th Amendment and the sovereign laws and powers of the Constitution,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said while discussing the lawsuit on Monday afternoon.
The Trump administration initiated a massive deployment of approximately 2,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities amid a widening fraud scandal on Jan. 5. The influx involves agents from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations overseeing a 30-day operation. Agents from DHS are expected to probe alleged cases of fraud.
Homeland Security Investigations on Dec. 29 conducted a “massive investigation on child care and other rampant fraud” in the Twin Cities, according to Noem. Two DHS officials told CBS News that federal agents were expected to inspect over 30 sites. Many of their targets were day care centers referenced in a viral video posted by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley.
CBS News conducted its own analysis of nearly 12 day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months.
Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge, which has targeted Somali immigrants in Minnesota, started at the beginning of December. The operation has led to more than 2,000 arrests, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. Federal agents have also been detaining severalprotesters and observers.
Illinois on Monday filed a lawsuit against DHS over what state officials called “unlawful and dangerous tactics” used by Customs and Border Protection and ICE agents in the state.
The court document, which also names other federal officials, alleges federal agents arrested people without warrants or probable cause and “implemented an illegal policy of deploying Border Patrol” to Chicago and other parts of Illinois.
Local officials to make announcement “on DHS’s future in Minnesota”
A coterie of state officials plans to make an announcement on the Department of Homeland Security’s “future in Minnesota” Monday afternoon, according to a release.
Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her “will hold a press conference to make an important announcement about Operation Metro Surge and the deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents from numerous agencies of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the State of Minnesota and the Twin Cities,” the release said.
The news conference is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. WCCO will offer coverage on CBS News Minnesota and YouTube.
Walz visits Good memorial
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited the memorial for Renee Good on Monday.
In a post on social media, Walz said, “Rest in peace.”
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DHS: 2,000 arrested since start of Operation Metro Surge
Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said Monday morning that 2,000 people have been arrested since federal agents launched an immigration enforcement campaign in the Twin Cities last month.
McLaughlin did not say the citizenship status of the people arrested, or why people have been arrested. Federal agents have also been detaining severalprotesters and observers.
As of Dec. 19, ICE had carried out nearly 700 arrests as part of the operation, according to DHS.
Jean Smart, Mark Ruffalo among celebrities wearing pins protesting ICE at Golden Globes
Some celebrities on the red carpet of the Golden Globes Sunday donned pins protesting ICE.
The black-and-white pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” introducing a political angle into the awards show after last year’s relatively apolitical ceremony.
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Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne wore the pins on the red carpet, while Jean Smart and Ariana Grande donned them once inside the ballroom. Smart had the pin on her dress as she accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a musical or comedy series.
Just a week before Good was killed, an off-duty ICE officer fatally shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Porter in Los Angeles. His death sparked protests in the Los Angeles area, calling for the officer responsible to be arrested.
The idea for the “ICE OUT” pins began with a late-night text exchange earlier this week between Stamp and Jess Morales Rocketto, the executive director of a Latino advocacy group called Maremoto.
Allies of their movement have been attending the “fancy events” that take place in the days leading up to the Golden Globes, according to Stamp. They’re passing out the pins at parties and distributing them to neighbors who will be attending tonight’s ceremony.
“They put it in their purse and they’re like, ‘Hey would you wear this?’ It’s so grassroots,” Morales Rocketto said.
The organizers pledged to continue the campaign throughout awards season to ensure the public knows the names of Good and others killed by ICE agents in shootings.
Legal analyst breaks down questions surrounding ICE killing
The fatal shooting of Good has raised many legal questions. Constitutional law professor David Schultz, who has taught a class on police, criminal and civil procedure, has some answers.
A look back at the shooting and the days that followed
WCCO is taking a moment to pause and look back at what’s unfolded over five historic days. As the questions multiply, the mourning does, too. What is clear is that a wounded city is aching again.
Jean Smart, Mark Ruffalo among celebrities wearing pins protesting ICE at Golden Globes
Some celebrities on the red carpet of the Golden Globes Sunday donned pins protesting ICE.
The black-and-white pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” introducing a political angle into the awards show after last year’s relatively apolitical ceremony.
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Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne wore the pins on the red carpet, while Jean Smart and Ariana Grande donned them once inside the ballroom. Smart had the pin on her dress as she accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a musical or comedy series.
Just a week before Good was killed, an off-duty ICE officer fatally shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Porter in Los Angeles. His death sparked protests in the Los Angeles area, calling for the officer responsible to be arrested.
The idea for the “ICE OUT” pins began with a late-night text exchange earlier this week between Stamp and Jess Morales Rocketto, the executive director of a Latino advocacy group called Maremoto.
Allies of their movement have been attending the “fancy events” that take place in the days leading up to the Golden Globes, according to Stamp. They’re passing out the pins at parties and distributing them to neighbors who will be attending tonight’s ceremony.
“They put it in their purse and they’re like, ‘Hey would you wear this?’ It’s so grassroots,” Morales Rocketto said.
The organizers pledged to continue the campaign throughout awards season to ensure the public knows the names of Good and others killed by ICE agents in shootings.
Legal analyst breaks down questions surrounding ICE killing
The fatal shooting of Good has raised many legal questions. Constitutional law professor David Schultz, who has taught a class on police, criminal and civil procedure, has some answers.
A look back at the shooting and the days that followed
WCCO is taking a moment to pause and look back at what’s unfolded over five historic days. As the questions multiply, the mourning does, too. What is clear is that a wounded city is aching again.
Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Sunday that hundreds more federal agents are coming to Minneapolis as the Department of Homeland Security carries out what officials are calling the “largest immigration operation ever.”
Noem said on Fox News that more agents will arrive in the metro Sunday and Monday to help officers already there continue to do their work “safely.”
The Minneapolis area now has one of the largest concentrations of Department of Homeland Security agents in any American city in recent years. There are more than 2,400 federal agents, more than double the number of local police officers.
Homeland Security kicked off Operation Metro Surge last month, which officials say led to more than 1,000 arrests. A week ago, the department announced the funneling of about 2,000 more federal agents into the Twin Cities metro area in a monthlong surge amid the state’s widening fraud scandal.
“As we uncover more of this criminal activity, we’re going to continue to surge resources to make sure this abuse of government funds and government power no longer continues in Minnesota,” Noem said.
Police responded to a call reporting the shooting, which happened in a neighborhood in south Minneapolis, at about 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday, according to the city. When officers arrived, they found that a woman, later identified as Good, had been shot in the head. She was rushed by firefighters to a Minneapolis hospital, where she later died, the city said.
Federal officials, including Noem, characterized the shooting as an act of self-defense on the part of the ICE agent who fired the weapon when the driver “attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.”
Statements from witnesses and local officials, who point to several videos of the encounter, dispute the accounts from federal officials of the circumstances that led up to the shooting.
The shooting has sparked anti-ICE protests across the Twin Cities and the nation.
Three Democratic congressional lawmakers who represent Minnesota said they were denied access to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Reps. Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Kelly Morrison told reporters that they were initially allowed into the building, but then informed they must leave.
“Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building, and that they were rescinding the invitation to come in and declining any further access from the building,” Omar told reporters while standing outside the facility.
Added Craig, “The response was that, since the funding for this center came from the one ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ not the congressional appropriations bill, that they were denying our access.”
From left, Democratic Reps. Kelly Morrison, Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig arrive for an oversight visit at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 10, 2026.
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Morrrison said in her own social media post that conducting oversight of “American taxpayer-funded facilities is not only our legal right, but our constitutional duty.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement provided to CBS News Minnesota that lawmakers are required to provide seven days notice of congressional visits.
“For the safety of detainees and staff, and in compliance with the agency’s mandate, the Members of Congress were notified that their visit was improper and out of compliance with existing court orders and policies which mandate that members of Congress must notify ICE at least seven days in advance of Congressional visits,” McLaughlin wrote. “Because they were out of compliance with this mandate, Representative Omar and her colleagues were denied entry to the facility.”
McLaughlin added that Omar, Craig and Morrison “must follow the proper guidelines” if they want to tour the facility.
The building has been the command center for federal agents in Minnesota. Concrete barriers were set up near the facility on Friday morning, less than a day after a tense protest where federal officers fired pepper balls and surged into a crowd of demonstrators.
CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman was reporting in the area during the protest when officers pushed into the crowd behind a cloud of chemical irritants, triggering shoving, panic and screams among the protesters.
