Tracy Mumford

The government has sent as many as 3,000, and their operation has led to thousands of arrests and at least two shootings, including the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer.

Local officials have called the deployment an invasion, as agents have fanned out in neighborhoods and used aggressive tactics, breaking car windows and deploying pepper spray in people's faces.

At one point, they dragged a man, who turned out to be a U.S.

citizen, out of his house in his underwear in the snow.

In another case that's gotten national attention this week, they detained a 5-year-old boy as he was coming home from pre-K with his dad.

School officials said he was the fourth child in the district to be detained recently.

With the state on edge, Vice President J.D.

Vance traveled to the Twin Cities yesterday.

Vance said that he thought federal agents were doing a, quote, incredible job and that the unrest in the city was the result of a failure of cooperation by state and local officials.

In another update on the protests, the Justice Department arrested three people over a demonstration at a church in St.

Paul after they went there to demand that one of the pastors resign, believing he works for ICE.

It's a rare instance of the federal government directing the arrests of nonviolent protesters.

President Trump wrote online that he'd seen footage of them interrupting the church service, saying, quote, "...they are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail or thrown out of the country."

The Justice Department also tried to charge former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who was at the scene reporting on it.

But sources tell The Times a federal magistrate judge refused to approve that criminal complaint.

Meanwhile, a new Times-Siena poll shows that while roughly half of voters support President Trump's deportations, 61 percent said ICE had gone, quote, too far in their tactics.

That includes nearly one in five Republicans.

Winter storm watches now up for a large portion of North Texas.

People are bracing for a major winter storm.

Road crews in Missouri are out preparing for these storms.