Closing summary
We’re wrapping up our live coverage for today. We’ll be back on Wednesday with more. Here is a summary of the day’s developments:
Ilhan Omar was attacked at a town hall event in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening. She was speaking about abolishing ICE when a man lunged toward her with a syringe and sprayed the congressman with an unknown substance before security tackled him to the ground. Officers witnessed the attack and arrested him for third-degree assault. Forensic scientists are evaluating the scene.
Pressure continues to mount for Kristi Noem to resign. Republican senators Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis on Tuesday said she should leave her post as the Department of Homeland Security secretary. More than 75% of House Democrats support her impeachment and top Democrats have said Trump should fire her, or they will move with proceedings.
Donald Trump said his administration plans to “de-escalate” in Minnesota after weeks of a massive, and deadly, immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis-St Paul. His comments came after Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, sat down with Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey and law enforcement in the state on Tuesday. Both Homan and Frey described the meeting as “productive”.
Republican Senator Susan Collins asked Kristi Noem to pause immigration operations in her home state of Maine as well as Minnesota, and called for an investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti.
A Customs and Border Protection official told Congress that two federal officers fired their weapons in the encounter in Minneapolis that killed Pretti, an American citizen and ICU nurse.
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a five-year-old Minnesota boy and his father cannot be immediately deported, one week after their arrest sparked international outrage.
At the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, school superintendents, teachers and parents described how the federal immigration surge is reshaping classrooms across the state. “These actions have changed the very fabric of our Columbia Heights schools and made every student, teacher and parent less safe,” said Peg Nelson, an elementary teacher in the district where five‑year‑old Liam Conejo Ramos was detained. “Students are afraid to come to school. We haven’t seen absenteeism like this since Covid.”
In nearby Fridley, superintendent Brenda Lewis said families are so worried about being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that she has twice cancelled in‑person classes since the start of the year and created a remote option for those afraid to leave home. She added that requests for door‑to‑door transportation have surged because parents don’t want their children waiting at bus stops where they fear federal agents could appear.
As families hesitate to send children to school, lawmakers said they’ve worked with the governor’s office to give districts more flexibility in applying a state rule requiring schools to drop students after 15 days of absences.
For Mary Granlund, chair of the Columbia Heights school board, Ramos is not the only child in her district that’s been taken into custody. In recent weeks, another preschooler and two high‑school students were also detained. Only one of the four has returned home, while Ramos remains in a Texas detention facility.
“Today, people across Columbia Heights woke up to cars still running, doors open, empty, left in the street,” Granlund said, noting that another student was reportedly pulled over by ICE and released only because they had their passport. She added that on Tuesday morning she opened her front door to find two unmarked vehicles parked outside; local police later confirmed they belonged to ICE.
“This message is to remind people that this is not over. It’s still happening, and we need your help to bring our kids home and make our families and communities whole again,” she said.
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