Minnesota Federal Prosecutors Resign After Justice Department Excludes Civil Rights Division in ICE Killing of Renee Good

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned after the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was excluded from a federal investigation into the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The departures included Joe Thompson, the first deputy federal prosecutor in Minnesota who led the investigation and the prosecution of fraud in the state, and at least four other federal prosecutors joined him, the report said.

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The renunciations followed what the article describes as growing tension over the Trump administration’s decision to exclude the state of the investigation, with the Civil Rights Division’s lawyers also told they would not participate at this stage.

The article says the Civil Rights Division, which generally investigates shootings by high-profile law enforcement officers, has a history of investigating civil-rights shootings but requires a high level of demand to open a criminal process.

Minnesota Democratic legislators criticized the exits, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar called the resignations “una pérdida para nuestro estado y para la seguridad pública” and warned that judicial processes should not be based on political criteria.

President Trump said it was “very good” that thousands of lawyers have chosen to no longer work for the administration, responding to a New York Times report about an exodus of legal talent.

In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the Times story “wrote a story today entitled, ‘Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent,’ as though that’s a bad thing, when actually, it’s very good.”

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The Hill reported that the Times story said more than 10,000 lawyers working for the federal government have left since the end of 2024 to March 2026, and that many are “flocking to the offices of Democratic state attorneys general and nonprofits that are challenging administration policies in the courts.”

The Hill also quoted Trump saying, “The people that are leaving are Radical Left Deep State Lunatics, who are destroying our Country, and Weaponizing Government,” and adding that “Many of them didn’t leave, but were fired!”

The Hill further reported that White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the Times the administration “remains totally dedicated to empowering and hiring hard-working Americans who are committed to public service and delivering on the president’s many promises to the American people.”

A federal court rejected the White House’s request to allow Donald Trump to proceed with revoking Temporary Protected Status for thousands of migrants, and the BBC said the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to stay an order issued March 31 by a district judge.

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The BBC reported that at the end of January, just days after Trump’s return to the presidency, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she would undo the decision by the previous president Joe Biden to extend protection to about 600,000 Venezuelans for 18 months.

The BBC described TPS as a program created by Congress in 1990 that allows people to stay and work legally in the United States temporarily until the benefit expires, and it said TPS does not provide a path to permanent residence or citizenship.

The BBC also quoted Nadine Cortés, a migration policy consultant, saying, “When you are given TPS, you are usually given almost two years to work without legal status. That's why it is a temporary protected status,”.

The BBC said the program has been in the crosshairs since the start of the current administration, and it described the administration’s linkage of Venezuelan migration with crime, while also stating that “data do not show a significant rise in crime associated with Venezuelans.”