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US officials probing Minnesota ICE protest that disrupted church service

Separately, the US justice department said on Friday it had opened investigations into Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, both Democrats, for allegedly impeding federal immigration operations.

Both Frey and Walz have spoken out strongly against ICE deployments to their city and state.

Anti-ICE protests have intensified there since the death of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and a US citizen, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent while in her vehicle in Minneapolis on 7 January.

City officials said she was killed while legally observing ICE activities. The Trump administration, however, labeled her a “domestic terrorist” and said the agent who shot her acted in self-defence.

Meanwhile, an undocumented immigrant has died in custody at an ICE detention centre in Texas, the third such death in 44 days, US media report.

Victor Manuel Diaz, a 36-year-old from Nicaragua, was detained by ICE agents earlier this month in Minneapolis.

“He died of a presumed suicide; however, the official cause of his death remains under investigation,” ICE said in a statement.

Earlier this month, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, Lunas Campos died at the same facility in Texas.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, told the Washington Post that Lunas Campos died after attempting to take his own life.

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