Kristi Noem

We're going to continue to, if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime.

And we will hold them accountable to those consequences.

This was clearly a law enforcement action where the officer acted on his training and defended himself and his life and his fellow colleagues.

It's a tragedy that this family has lost a loved one and that our country is dealing with the situation.

But that's why we need our leaders to turn down their rhetoric.

We need individuals and elected leaders in Minnesota to start partnering with us so that we can do law enforcement operations on the streets to protect the citizens that live there.

This was clearly a law enforcement action where the officer acted on his training and defended himself and his life and his fellow colleagues.

It's a tragedy that this family has lost a loved one and that our country is dealing with the situation.

But that's why we need our leaders to turn down their rhetoric.

We need individuals and elected leaders in Minnesota to start partnering with us so that we can do law enforcement operations on the streets to protect the citizens that live there.

We're sending more officers today and tomorrow.

They'll arrive.

There'll be hundreds more.

And in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely, we're going to continue to, if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime.

And we will hold them accountable to those consequences.

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, said U.S.

Coast Guard forces boarded the tanker Olena in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea.

She said the vessel was on the U.S.

list of sanctioned oil tankers that often try to conceal their role in transporting oil from countries that include Venezuela, Russia, and Iran.

Noem wrote, quote, the ghost fleets will not outrun justice.