ICE agents killing two people in Minneapolis has scarred the country.
House Democrats had already threatened to impeach DHS head Kristi Noem over the carnage and fear her agents have caused. Then a federal agent tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minnesota this morning. Ecuador called it an “attempted incursion” and filed a diplomatic protest.
Later in the evening, a man attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a syringe at a town hall where she demanded Noem’s resignation. The anger spread to Manhattan, where 60 protesters swarmed a Hilton lobby demanding the hotel stop housing federal agents.
The administration bet this would fade in a news cycle, but it’s growing.
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Source: KMSP Minneapolis
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Source: The Hill
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Source: The Hill
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