Walz is speaking eight days after an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in south Minneapolis, and after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has deployed thousands of federal agents to Minnesota as part of the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge.

Minnesota Governor Walz spoke to the state in a prime time address on Wednesday night about the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown.

Patty O'Keefe said she and a friend were following ICE agents in Minnesota earlier this week when they were stopped, their car pepper-sprayed and their windows smashed.

Federal immigration agents continue their presence in Minnesota on Wednesday, exactly a week after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in her vehicle in Minneapolis.

Ms. Good was killed by an ICE agent last week. Separately, a federal judge put off ruling on a request by the state to block the surge of immigration agents to the Minneapolis area.

The state of Minnesota, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, announced a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials in an effort to stop the surge of ICE agents from coming to Minnesota.

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Angie Craig compared ICE operations to 1930s Germany while discussing efforts to defund the agency following a deadly shooting.