The fatal shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday involving federal immigration agents comes as threats against ICE agents surge, with both the number of assaults on agents and threats against them up by more than 1,000%.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, speaking after an agent fatally shot a woman who accelerated her car towards the agent as they asked her to exit the vehicle, said that the agent involved had been rammed by a car in a previous encounter.
“ICE alone is facing a 1,300 % increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats against all of them. In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June. He sustained injuries at that time as well.”
His is just one of many documented assaults on ICE agents, who have been highly active in cities across the country during the Trump administration.
“Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles, three of them happened here in Minneapolis,” Noem said on Wednesday. “We’ve seen over 100 of these vehicle rammings happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.”
Over the summer, on July 4, a militia of alleged Antifa members attempted to lure ICE officers out of an agency facility in north Texas by setting off fireworks. When the officers emerged, the attackers opened fire, injuring a local police officer, authorities say.
A nearby facility in Dallas was targeted in September by a shooter who stood on a nearby rooftop and fired into an ICE sally port where detainees were being moved. Although the shooter, who later turned the gun on himself, intended to kill ICE officers, he ended up killing two detainees.
The Daily Wire got a glimpse into the brutality of the attacks during an earlier interview with an ICE officer who had 13 stitches in his upper lip and second-degree burns across his body after an illegal immigrant pedophile he was trying to nab attacked him.
.@JennieSTaer interviews ICE officers who were assaulted in the line of duty:
“We were stopping a vehicle…a passenger, as he ran, threw…a 32 oz Yeti style coffee cup into my face, full of hot coffee…2nd degree burns of my face, neck, arm, chest.” pic.twitter.com/iNQaWvjpjw
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 7, 2025
The officer, who recently returned to the agency after the Trump administration offered incentives to retirees, said: “It’s a lot different from the job I left … everybody’s running, everybody’s fighting,” he told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview Thursday.
“I would like the rhetoric to cool down a little bit, I think that’s probably fueled by some things that have been said about us,” he added.
The woman killed on Wednesday has been identified by her mother as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. Good’s mother claimed her daughter wasn’t involved in anti-ICE activities.
Video from the incident shows officers ordering her to get out of the vehicle, before she backed up the car and then moved it forward. The video appears to show the car making contact with the ICE office.
The officer, who the Department of Homeland Security said feared for his life, fired at the woman, killing her. The federal agent was transported to a nearby hospital and was later released.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the incident an “act of domestic terrorism” and has defended the officer’s actions as self-defense.