‘Day of reckoning, retribution’ coming to Minnesota amid ICE outrage: Trump

US president issues latest threat to midwestern state, where protests have continued after ICE agent killed woman.Published On 13 Jan 2026United States President Donald Trump has said that a “day of reckoning and retribution” is coming to Minnesota, as outrage and protests have continued days after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the state’s largest city, Minneapolis.Trump did not provide further details on the statement, which came at the end of a lengthy screed on the president’s Truth Social account on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US woman killed by ICE agent called ‘domestic terrorist’: What it meanslist 2 of 3The Take: Inside ICE’s deadly ‘surge’ in Minneapolislist 3 of 3US revokes more than 100,000 visas since Trump’s return to officeend of listThe apparent threat represented the latest pledge to come down hard on the midwestern state in the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week.The administration on Monday promised to send hundreds more ICE agents to Minneapolis, where federal officer ranks already dwarf local law enforcement, in what city and state leaders have called a dangerous escalation.“All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy,” Trump said, referring to his predecessor, US President Joe Biden.“FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF Minnesota, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!” he said.The phrase was quickly quoted by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees domestic US immigration enforcement, in a post on X.Later on Tuesday, a federal judge was set to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota’s Attorney General and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, alleging that the surge of immigration agents violates residents’ freedom of speech while trampling on the state’s constitutionally protected authorities.