Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Activists gathered in Mesa on Jan. 11 to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and distribute legal rights information in local communities, part of a nationally coordinated weekend of action following a fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Amid the increase in agents and anticipated protests, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS sat in on a constitutional observer training session that has grown in popularity in recent weeks, according to presenter Kate Wegener,

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

The Department of Homeland Security is pausing immigration applications from 20 additional countries following increased scrutiny on people who seek legal pathways for immigrating to the U.S.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. population is projected to grow by 15 million in 30 years, a smaller estimate than in previous years, due to President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies and an aging population, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

Demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are planned Saturday around the U.S. following Wednesday's shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.

Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates.