Secret Service Director Sean Curran said his agents “performed admirably” tonight, pointing to the quick apprehension of the suspect at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a prime example of what the agency is trained to do.
“We got to see what they do, and that individual, when he charged a checkpoint, was apprehended,” Curran said. “It shows that our multi-layered protection works.”
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President Donald Trump was swiftly escorted off the stage by Secret Service at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
Vice President JD Vance and some members of Trump’s Cabinet who were also in attendance were also rushed out.
The explanation from ICE is an example of recent run-ins between immigration officers and health care workers that have contributed to mounting friction at Minneapolis hospitals. Workers at the Hennepin County facility say ICE officers have restrained patients in defiance of hospital rules and stayed at their sides for days. The agents have also lingered around the campus and pressed people for proof of citizenship.
According to his lawyers, Castañeda Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castaneda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul. He appears to have no criminal record.
His lawyers told a court that Castañeda Mondragón was racially profiled during the crackdown, and that officers determined only after his arrest that he had overstayed his visa.
“He was a brown-skinned, Latino Spanish speaker at a location immigration agents arbitrarily decided to target,” his lawyers wrote in a petition seeking his release from ICE custody.
More Americans now support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, than keeping it.
MINNEAPOLIS–The Office of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued the following statement following the incident at her town hall in North Minneapolis.
“During her town hall, an agitator tried to attack the Congresswoman by spraying an unknown substance with a syringe. Security and the Minneapolis Police Department quickly apprehended the individual. He is now in custody. The Congresswoman is okay. She continued with her town hall because she doesn’t let bullies win.”
Omar was uninjured in the attack, according to CNN affiliate KARE, which cited a police incident report. The man was charged with third-degree assault and was booked into Hennepin County Jail on the charge, the report said.
A man attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar tonight, spraying an unknown substance with a strong odor toward her, just seconds after the Democratic congresswoman called for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign and urged the abolishment of ICE.
Audience members of the town hall meeting with local and state officials started to clap as she made her remarks. Then the man rushed her podium, yelling at the congresswoman and appearing to spray the substance through a syringe at her.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is deeply disturbed and saddened to learn of the death of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse, in Minneapolis earlier today. We extend our condolences to Alex’s loved ones, colleagues, and the community at large.
ANA condemns violence in our communities. The seriousness of this incident and others demand transparency and accountability. ANA calls for a full, unencumbered investigation, and urges that findings be shared promptly and clearly so Alex’s loved ones and the public have answers.
One in four nurses already experience workplace violence. As incidents with federal law enforcement continue to rise across the country, we are deeply concerned for the safety of nurses, both on the job and in the communities they serve.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered remarks Wednesday night as immigration operations continued in the state. Streamed live 17 hours ago
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered remarks Wednesday night as immigration operations continued in the state. Earlier in the day, a judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, seeking further evidence before issuing a ruling.
Earlier in the day, a judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, seeking further evidence before issuing a ruling.
“My fellow Minnesotans:
“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 to three thousand 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.
“They’re pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens, and demanding to see their papers.
“And at grocery stores, at bus stops, even at schools, they’re breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.
“Let’s be very, very clear: This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement.
“Instead, it is 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 all have 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 is 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 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 this is scary.
“And I know it’s absurd that we all have to be defending law and order, justice, and humanity while also caring for our families and doing 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 need you to hear as you watch the news and look out for your neighbors.
“First: Donald Trump wants 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 might not be strong enough of a word.
“But we must remain peaceful.
“Second: You are not powerless.
“You are not helpless.
“And you are 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 Minnesotans are going to be relying on mutual aid in the days and weeks to come, and they need our support.
“Tonight, I want to 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 their activities.
“So carry your phone with you at all times.
“And if you see ICE 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.
“That’s the third thing I want to tell you tonight: 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 re-establish a sense of safety for our neighbors.
“We will bring an end to this moment of chaos and confusion.
“We will find a way to move forward – together.
“And we will not be alone.
“Every day, we are working with business leaders, faith leaders, legal experts, and elected officials from all across the country.
“They have seen what Donald Trump is trying to do to our state.
“They know their states could be next.
“And that brings me to the fourth thing I want to tell you tonight. Minnesota, I’m so proud of the way we’ve risen to meet this unbearable moment.
“But I’m not 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, take care of our neighbors, and 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: Do not let anyone take that away from us.
“Thank you.
“Protect each other
“And God bless the people of Minnesota.”
(January 9, 2026)
DHS said after the agents identified themselves, the driver „weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.“
„Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot,“ DHS said. The department said the man drove off with his passenger.
The shooting occurred at around 2:18 p.m. local time in the Hazelwood neighborhood in East Portland. Portland police officers responded to a 911 call and „confirmed federal agents were involved in a shooting,“ Day said.
About six minutes later, Day said, officers responded to a separate location about three miles away for a 911 call, where they found a man and woman with gunshot wounds.
Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
The school official also told MPR News that the agents handcuffed two staff members at the school, and they described getting into a physical confrontation with an agent as they were trying to tell them to leave school property.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” the official said. “They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
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The reasons for the raid on the high school were unclear, and the US Department of Homeland Security did not respond to KSTP Eyewitness 5 News’ or MPR News’ requests for comment.
Palestinian teenager Oweis Hemam says he was kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Watch the 18-year-old’s account below.
(December 6, 2025)
A military source claimed that Hamam was suffering from a mental illness.
Soldiers of the IDF’s so-called area defense forces, known by its Hebrew acronym Hagmar — made up of local settlers in reserve duty — who were already in the area, alongside Sde Ephraim’s security coordinator, called on the man to leave, the army said.
According to the military, the reservist soldiers fired in the air, but the suspect continued to approach them. “The reserve soldiers struggled with the suspect physically until they were able to arrest him,” the IDF said.
According to WAFA correspondent, armed colonists from the illegal colonial outpost of Karmei Tzur, built on Palestinian land, attacked a group of farmers with stones, clubs, and pepper spray as they attempted to reach their farmland in the Wardan area between Beit Ummar and Halhul.
Minister Assaf also called on Arab information ministers to collectively negotiate with global digital platforms to reverse their biased positions in favor of the occupation forces and their narrative, and to stop combating Palestinian content, asserting that the Palestinian narrative and discourse have triumphed over the fabricated Israeli narrative.
He called on concerned Arab and international institutions and bodies to intensify their efforts to document and expose the occupation‘s crimes against the Palestinian media and people, enhance solidarity campaigns, and pressure to end the unlawful protection enjoyed by the perpetrators.
„The male and female journalists in Palestine have embodied the highest meanings of national and professional belonging, and have continued to fulfill their noble mission of revealing the truth and conveying the suffering of our people to the world, despite all the dangers. The blood of the martyrs, the knights of truth, will remain a testament to the occupation‘s crimes and a motive for pursuing its perpetrators, until complete justice is achieved and impunity is ended,“ Assaf said.
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“We are witnessing the total abandonment of Palestinian lives. Israel has already shown it is capable of far greater violence, as we are seeing in the Gaza Strip. The situation in the West Bank is deteriorating by the day and will only worsen, because there is no internal or external mechanism to restrain Israel or stop its ongoing policy of ethnic cleansing. The international community must put an end to Israel’s impunity and hold those responsible for crimes against the Palestinian people to account” said Yuli Novak, B‘Tselem executive director
Since October 2023, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military has been enforcing an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy in the West Bank, including the use of airstrikes in populated areas. The military has also armed and mobilized thousands of settlers into regional defense battalions and rapid-response teams within settlements.
Under this blanket impunity, armed settlers attack Palestinians on a daily basis, burning homes, farmland and crops, looting property and killing residents. Although dozens of such attacks occur every day, and many are captured on video and well documented, Israeli law-enforcement authorities rarely open investigations.
In the 21 cases where settlers have killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted.
Reporting Highlights
– Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.
– Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.
– Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped.
(Nov 3, 2025)
Warning: Graphic language. Video shows the vehicle collision between federal agents and Dayanne Figueroa in Chicago‘s West Town neighborhood on Oct. 10, 2025. (Provided by Fernando Figueroa)
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress. As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an unmarked vehicle collided with her car. Masked men jumped out of the vehicle, guns drawn and dragged Figueroa from her car by her legs. She was thrown into a minivan, taken away and held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for hours. Dayanne Figueroa is an American citizen.
Figueroa’s arrest, captured in a now-viral video, illustrates the growing number of U.S. citizens caught up in federal immigration actions. These arrests and detentions violate ICE guidelines as well as the Constitution.
The Kingdom also warns that the international community’s silence regarding these practices, and the absence of accountability mechanisms amid ongoing Israeli violations and assaults, weakens the foundations of the international order and undermines the principles of international legitimacy.
The Kingdom reiterates its firm position in supporting the Palestinian people and in continuing its efforts toward establishing an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant international resolutions.
„The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strong condemnation and denunciation of the continued violations perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities and extremist settlers against the Palestinian people, most recently the storming of the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocation of worshippers there, and the reprehensible attack on the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Kafr Haris,“ the statement said.
This weekend’s violence in Al Mughayyir is yet another example of the ongoing oppression of and coercion against Palestinians. All such violence must stop and impartial accountability ensured – @volker_turk
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces are conducting a raid on Nablus. At least 80 Palestinians have been injured. This comes a day after Israeli forces raided Ramallah and al-Bireh. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 58 people were injured, eight by live fire and 14 by rubber-coated bullets. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a child had to receive surgery after being hit by live fire. Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in the raid.