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Minnesota senator calls on ICE to 'leave now for everyone's safety' after shooting incident

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4 weeks ago

Minnesota’s junior senator sounded off Wednesday after an ICE-involved shooting in South Minneapolis, leading to one woman reportedly being fatally injured by gunfire.The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the shooting around midday, saying in a statement that agents were conducting targeted immigration enforcement operations when "rioters" blocked officers, and one "rioter weaponized her vehicle… in an attempt to kill them; an act of domestic terrorism."After news of the shooting broke, Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat, railed against the agency on X, telling followers that a U.S. citizen h...