‘The largest operation ever’: US Homeland Security to send hundreds of officers to Minnesota

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is sending “hundreds” more officers to Minnesota, Reuters writes, citing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The decision came after tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration agent.

The officers would be deployed to bolster the safety of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officials already in Minnesota, Noem said.

Some 2,000 federal officers have already been dispatched to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in what DHS has called its largest operation ever.