Acting ICE director claims sanctuary cities force more agents into communities, urging cooperation with local officials as tensions rise over immigration operations.
But President Trump has already backed away from a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests against the killing of a woman by a federal immigration agent.
Federal agents in Minneapolis last week. The use of military force on domestic soil in the United States is rare, and it is usually reserved only for the most extreme situations.
Videos of immigration officers dragging an employee out of a store near Minneapolis, the retailer’s hometown, set off renewed political debate after years of boycotts.
Gregory Bovino, center, a Border Patrol official, at a Target store in St. Paul, Minn., this month. Last week, agents detained two employees at a Target in Richfield, Minn.
The agent told Ms. Good to get out of her car before she was fatally shot. Legal experts said immigration agents may sometimes, but not always, have the authority to make such commands.
In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.
The agent shot a Venezuelan man who was resisting arrest, an official said. Protesters and law enforcement officers clashed for hours, as city officials urged people to go home.
Ms. Good was killed by an ICE agent last week. Separately, a federal judge put off ruling on a request by the state to block the surge of immigration agents to the Minneapolis area.
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