Shumita Basu

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the surge had sown chaos in the Twin Cities.

The administration has defended the agent's decision to fire at Renee Nicole Good, even before an investigation concludes.

The FBI is looking into the incident, but has refused to involve state officials, leading Governor Tim Walz to question the legitimacy of that investigation.

As politicians debate even the nature of the investigation, it's raised questions over how ICE and Border Patrol accountability actually works in practice, with many of the protesters over the weekend demanding more scrutiny.

In Chicago last October, for example, a Border Patrol officer shot and injured a woman who was driving around warning people of ICE presence.

Similar to Minneapolis, that officer claimed they were defending themselves from a car ramming.

And in Los Angeles, officers last summer hid in a rental truck and detained day laborers at a Home Depot parking lot in an operation they called Trojan Horse.

Julia Ainsley is a senior Homeland Security correspondent at NBC News.

Best practices, Ainsley says, is what officers learn in training but are not mandated rules.

And even if officers don't always follow them, they're still protected since it falls under the scope of their duties.

That's where goods shooting falls, according to the government.

Ainsley also told us federal cutbacks have hampered DHS's ability to hold its own officers accountable.

DHS has also cut staff at agencies that are watchdogs who investigate misuse or excessive use of force.

The administration called them roadblocks to enforcement.

Last year, a whistleblower report sent to Congress alleged that staffing cutbacks had meant hundreds of complaints had been left abandoned.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the rules for transgender athletes.

It's actually two separate cases, and the plaintiffs have appealed state bans that prohibit trans girls and women from participating in women's sports.

One relates to 15-year-old Becky Pepper Jackson, who sued the state of West Virginia in 2021 when she was barred from joining her school track and field team.

She recently spoke to the AP in an interview about her case.

Over the last few years, there's been a lot of legal back and forth in Pepper Jackson's specific case, with a court at first siding with the state, then on appeal concluding it had violated her rights.