Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Minnesota immigration surge was a success, pointing to over 4,000 detentions as federal agents begin scaling back operations.

Top immigration officials testified before the Homeland Security Committee after the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.

Kristi Noem found herself iced by one of her own goons when the man she appointed to head Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive refused to defend her during a congressional hearing. The Homeland Security secretary has been under fire from all sides after the decision to deploy thousands of federal immigration agents to Minneapolis led to mass demonstrations and the deaths of two American protesters,

The new Yahoo/YouGov survey finds that large majorities of Americans support Democratic reforms to rein in federal agents.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents in the latest poll – 65% – feel ICE has gone too far in enforcing immigration laws, a jump from 54% last June, when the Trump administration began enhanced enforcement efforts in Los Angeles. That's driven largely by Democrats and independents, but a growing share of Republicans say the same.

The heads of three Trump administration agencies have appeared before Congress to discuss immigration policies.

An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement document in May shows that ICE told officers and agents they can forcibly enter homes of people subject to deportation without warrants signed by judges.

"This is our fault," Rep. Tim Wesco, R-Osceola, said about the immigration debate. "We have put partisan personality politics over the Constitution."

Immigration advocates across the area say they are seeing an uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity over the past several weeks, and they want residents to be prepared.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested five men on their way to work in late January in Du Quoin, marking one of the first reported mass ICE enforcement actions this far south in Illinois under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.