Senate Democrats demand testimony from Noem after Minneapolis shootings

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Source: The Hill

01/29/26 3:23 PM ET


Senate Homeland Security Committee Democrats are demanding Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appear before the panel amid scrutiny over the killing of two Minneapolis residents by immigration officers.

“You have presided over an increasingly dangerous and untenable breakdown in trust in federal law enforcement across the country, and your actions in the wake of these tragedies have weakened the Department’s credibility, enflamed tensions, harmed public safety, and divided Americans,” Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote with the other Democratic members.

“You have authorized actions that have resulted in a vast overreach of the Department’s authorities and have cost innocent lives. Masked federal agents from DHS have violently assaulted peaceful protestors, arrested American citizens without cause, undermined protections under the Fourth Amendment, and shot and killed two Americans — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — who, contrary to your own baseless assertions, clearly did not pose a lethal threat.”

Noem’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5713577-noem-ice-dhs-minneapolis-minnesota/

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Link to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Democrats PRESS RELEASE - Homeland Security Democrats Call on DHS Secretary Noem to Testify Following Shooting Deaths of Two U.S. Citizens

Link to LETTER (inquiry) (PDF) - https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/1.28.26.-HSGAC-Letter-from-RM-Peters-and-Members-to-DHS-Secretary-Noem.pdf