Minnesota agitators stalk, pelt Border Patrol agents with food and spit at gas stations, DHS says

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed connected Wednesday that anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators successful the Minneapolis-St. Paul country had escalated to blocking Border Patrol agents attempting to bash mundane tasks, including utilizing the bathroom. 

As the agents took bath breaks astatine state stations, "hostile crowds" reportedly "repeatedly harassed and blocked" them, according to DHS.

"At each state presumption wherever the agents stopped to usage the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled astatine them, stalked them and adjacent tried to forestall instrumentality enforcement vehicles from leaving, creating unsafe conditions," DHS said successful a station connected X.

"At 1 stop, individuals successful the assemblage threw nutrient astatine the agents. At their last state presumption stop, idiosyncratic spit connected an agent," the section added. "When an cause moved to detain the idiosyncratic who spit connected him, the assemblage tackled and attacked the agents portion surrounding them."

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People face U.S. Border Patrol agents of commandant Greg Bovino's squad astatine a speedway state presumption successful Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 21, 2026.  (Seth Herald/Reuters)

The section said that the agents were forced to usage assemblage power measures to disperse the agitators.

The station comes conscionable up of Vice President JD Vance's sojourn to Minneapolis. He's expected to conscionable with section leaders and present remarks focused connected restoring instrumentality and bid successful Minnesota.

Tensions betwixt national migration enforcement and agitators successful Minnesota person grown successful caller weeks since the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good. The incidental sparked protests and arguments betwixt Minnesota enactment and the national government.

When President Donald Trump connected Tuesday attended a White House briefing marking 1 twelvemonth since his inauguration, helium took the clip to item the "Worst of the Worst" transgression amerciable immigrants who had been arrested by ICE successful Minnesota.

A pistillate blows her whistle astatine US Border Patrol agents astatine a state presumption successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected Jan. 21, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

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The president besides addressed the anti-ICE chaos successful Minnesota, accusing those demonstrating of being "paid agitators and insurrectionists." He emphasized that national migration enforcement agents are doing "a unsafe job."

"These are each criminal, amerciable aliens that successful galore cases, they're murderers, they're cause lords, cause dealers, they're the mentally insane. Some of them who are brutal killers. They're mentally insane. They're killers, but they're insane," Trump said arsenic helium held up mugshots of assorted arrestees.

A national cause of Commander Greg Bovino's squad looks connected during a halt astatine a state presumption arsenic migration enforcement continues successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected Jan. 21, 2026.  (Seth Herald/Reuters)

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Homeland Security's "Worst of the Worst" database has accusation connected arrestees, including those who were apprehended successful Minnesota. The 42 pages for Minnesota see accused pack members, convicted rapists and convicted murderers.

The medication has mostly blamed the anti-ICE sentiment connected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, some of whom criticized national migration enforcement successful the aftermath of Good's death. Immediately pursuing the ICE-involved shooting, Frey demanded the bureau "get the f--- out" of his city.