Week of January 7–13, 2026

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in her SUV on a residential street south of downtown Minneapolis. She died of gunshot wounds to the head.

Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado who described herself on social media as a "poet and writer and wife and mom." Her ex-husband said she had just dropped her six-year-old son at school and was driving home when she encountered agents. She and her partner moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City last year.

Vice President JD Vance called the shooting justified. Drew Evans, head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said federal authorities denied the state access to evidence, barring it from investigating alongside the FBI.

Source: AP News

Federal immigration agents have shot at people 16 times since the first such shooting in July, killing four and injuring seven, according to an analysis by the Guardian and the Trace using Gun Violence Archive data and news reports.

The count identified 29 incidents overall in which agents either fired on someone or held people at gunpoint during enforcement operations. Thirteen further cases involved less-lethal weapons such as rubber bullets or pepper balls, ten of them in a single period of concentrated operations.

The figures cover both ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents and probably undercount, the Trace said, because shootings involving immigration agents are not consistently disclosed.

Source: The Guardian

Federal immigration agents shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, a day after an officer killed a motorist in Minneapolis. Both were reported alive, City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said.

The Department of Homeland Security said the passenger was a Venezuelan national tied to a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and to a recent shooting in the city, and that the driver tried to run agents over during a targeted vehicle stop after they identified themselves.

Hundreds gathered outside the ICE building in Portland that night. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said he would investigate whether any federal officer acted outside their lawful authority and refer charges if warranted.

Source: AP News

The State Department expanded its visa bond pilot program to more countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica. Consular officers may now require applicants for B1/B2 business and tourist visas from those countries to post between $5,000 and $15,000 before travel.

The practical effect is limited for several of the countries named, whose nationals are already barred or restricted under the December proclamation on entry. Immigration experts described the overlap as deliberate: layers of cost and paperwork that reduce legal immigration from particular countries without an outright ban.

The bond is refunded if the visa is denied or once the holder shows compliance with its terms.

Source: Miami Herald

A YouGov survey of more than 2,600 adults taken on January 7, the day an officer killed a woman in Minneapolis, found 52% disapprove of how ICE is handling its job against 39% who approve. Just 27% called the agency's tactics "about right," while 51% said they were "too forceful."

ICE's net approval has fallen from plus 16 in February 2025 to minus 14. A 44% plurality approved of the recent protests against the agency, with 42% opposed.

Separate tracking by Civiqs shows support for abolishing ICE rising from 19% in September 2024 to 42% now, with 49.5% opposed. Nearly six in ten respondents said they believe a war or conflict is taking place in American cities.

Source: Axios

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary restraining order extending family reunification parole for immigrants whose status was due to expire that week, protecting more than 10,000 relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents from Colombia, Cuba and several other countries.

Talwani found that immigration officials failed to give the direct written notice the program requires. Publishing the termination in the Federal Register on December 15 did not satisfy that duty, she held. The government said it would notify people through online accounts, but some received notice weeks late and others say they were never told.

"Nothing in the record before the court suggests that most, let alone all, parolees do in fact have such accounts," Talwani wrote.

Source: Politico

Demonstrations against immigration enforcement took place in cities across the country over the weekend following the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.

At least 1,000 events were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, the grassroots coalition helping coordinate what it called the "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action."

"Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three, and a member of her community," said Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of the group, saying people had come together to "grieve, honor those we've lost, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for far too long."

Source: NPR

The Department of Homeland Security turned away members of Congress from an immigration detention facility in Minneapolis under a new visitation policy. Representatives Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig were admitted to the regional ICE headquarters at the Whipple Federal Building and then quickly asked to leave.

Federal law gives members of Congress the right to make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities, and a federal court in Washington affirmed last month that the right covers facilities funded through regular appropriations.

In a January 8 memo obtained by NPR, Secretary Kristi Noem instructed staff that such visits should be requested at least seven days in advance, and said ICE would enforce the policy.

Source: NPR

Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul sued the federal government in federal court and asked for a temporary restraining order to halt or limit Operation Metro Surge, days after an ICE officer killed a Minneapolis motorist.

DHS says it is sending more than 2,000 immigration officers into the state and has made more than 2,000 arrests since the operation began last month. ICE has called it the agency's largest enforcement operation ever.

The suit argues the operation is arbitrary and capricious because no comparable crackdown is under way elsewhere, and that although the government describes the effort as an anti-fraud measure, ICE agents have no expertise investigating fraud in government programs. It alleges the state was chosen for political reasons.

Source: AP News

Four people died in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities between January 3 and January 9, according to ICE press releases. Two were from Honduras, one from Cuba and one from Cambodia. The deaths follow a record year in which 32 people died in ICE custody.

Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died on January 3 at Camp East Montana, a detention site opened this year on the grounds of Fort Bliss in Texas. ICE said staff placed him in isolation after he became disruptive, later found him in distress, and that paramedics pronounced him dead. The agency said it is investigating.

ICE was holding 69,000 people as of January 7 and expects the figure to rise. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the death rate has kept pace with historic norms as the detention population has grown.

Source: Reuters

The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Somalis, affecting 705 people who hold the designation, according to USCIS data. Secretary Kristi Noem said conditions in the country had improved enough that Somalis no longer qualify. "Temporary means temporary," she wrote, adding that letting them remain was "contrary to our national interests."

Somalis were first granted the status in 1991, during the civil war, under President George H.W. Bush. The administration signaled the move in November, when Trump wrote that Somali gangs were terrorizing Minnesota and that people should be sent back.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called the decision a "bigoted attack" and said it does not reflect changed conditions in Somalia.

Source: The Guardian

Staff and judges at the San Francisco Immigration Court were told by email that the courthouse at 100 Montgomery Street will close by the end of the year and that all personnel will transfer to the Concord Immigration Court, about 30 miles away. The email came from Chief Immigration Judge Teresa Riley.

Courtrooms at the Department of Homeland Security's detention facility on Sansome Street will remain open. The closure is expected to add to the caseloads of judges already under pressure to move faster.

San Francisco's court has been hit hard by this year's removals of immigration judges. "At first it was a message that you better fall in line or you're going to get fired," said Jeremiah Johnson, a former judge there. Now, he said, "it's a message that your court is going to be closed."

Source: NPR