Minneapolis, Minnesota — Today, an ICE officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020. The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that tracks gun violence, including by ICE, notes there have been at least 14 ICE shootings under the Trump administration, as of January 7, 2026. According to The Trace: “They include the shootings of three people observing or documenting ICE raids; the shootings of five people driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement action; and the September 30 raid on a Chicago apartment building, during which half-asleep tenants and their children were held at gunpoint. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.”
In response to this news, Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network issued the following statement:
“As we have witnessed for decades in every detention center, and this past year with ICE’s assault on cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and now Minneapolis, ICE is an inherently violent agency. And now ICE agents are escalating that violence to a deadly degree. We mourn the preventable death of Renee Nicole Good, the 37 year-old woman killed by ICE today in Minneapolis, and the growing death toll at the hands of ICE.
In 2025, 31 people died in ICE custody — an all-time high. Decades of evidence illustrate that ICE puts lives in jeopardy: immigration detention deprives people of freedom, isolates people away from loved ones, and subjects people to abysmal conditions, including inadequate medical care and mental health services, inedible food, and racist abuse. The Trump administration’s massive detention expansion is exacerbating the inhumane conditions inherent to ICE’s detention system.
Across the country, people are uniting to protect themselves, their immigrant family members, neighbors, and friends who are in danger. ICE and federal agents are attacking people in the streets with violence and deadly force to instill fear. ICE is attempting to sow division and suppress dissent in cities that are welcoming of all people, regardless of what they look like, where they come from, or the language they speak. But the reality is, these communities are strengthened by their ability to work together, enhanced by the diversity of the people that reside there.
Suppression of dissent and the hyper-militarized police state that Americans face are yet another clear marker of Trump’s authoritarian regime, as the administration acts with impunity, without fear of rebuke or consequence, and actively pumps out propaganda to deny wrongdoing and evade accountability.
Our message is clear: Immigrant lives are of value and we stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and across the country uniting to demand safety, dignity and respect for all. We mourn the loss of life at the hands of ICE while demanding elected leaders at all levels reject Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.”
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Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.