Kristi Noem

President Trump and his law enforcement officers that are entrusted to protect the American people will every day continue to keep America safe.

Operation Salvo is just the beginning of a broader and a much more sustained effort to go after not only transnational criminal organizations and networks, but also illegal criminal aliens throughout the country.

This goes to show the assaults that our ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every single day.

These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism.

This goes to show the assaults that our ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every single day.

These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism.

We're working with the Department of Justice to prosecute them as such.

We will continue to protect our ICE officers and in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies as well.

She's in Texas. You asked about a shooting that we just had in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was our ICE officers were out in enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly.

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It was an act of domestic terrorism.

What happened was our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action.

They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis.

They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.

In a letter shared exclusively with NPR, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tells New York Representative Dan Goldman that the agency's inspector general decided two months later not to open a criminal investigation.

It's not clear if there is an administrative investigation.

It continues to not be immediately clear also why the officer was able to return to work so quickly.

The incident circulated online and prompted the DHS to place him on administrative leave, a rare instance of such a leave being publicly announced.

In a statement at the time, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the behavior was beneath the men and women of ICE, since DHS has not responded to questions about its own policies and procedures for investigating employee misconduct.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.