The shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by ICE agents and subsequent White House reaction has horrified Jimmy Kimmel.
The talk show host used the opening monologue on his Live! show to denounce the government's response to the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37. An ICE agent shot and killed Renee during an immigration raid. ICE raids have surged as Donald Trump's administration ordered more than 2,000 federal immigration officers into the city following reports of welfare fraud committed by the local Somali community.
Kimmel has since responded to the government's reaction, with many in the Trump administration claiming the ICE agent was defending themselves. The talk show host, after a compilation of some political commentators defending Trump, said, "A foreign invasion. These foreigners who invade our country, they barge into our homes, they start feeding our children, mowing our lawns, and every time we pay them, they come back and they do it again."
"Of course, everyone you saw took their cues from the president, who falsely posted on social media that Renee Good, the woman who was killed, said she 'ran over the ICE officer', which is clearly not true. I don't think anyone with eyes other than him would make that claim."
"Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, said it was an act of domestic terrorism, which is just flat out- this unarmed mom, a devout Christian by the way, who had no criminal record, driving a Honda Pilot, trying to get away from armed men in masks, masked men were screaming at her."
"We're to believe this woman was a terrorist, committing a terrorist act? And the fact that ICE shot through her windshield three times, that was her fault? The ICE officer was, as Kristi Noem put it, 'following his training'."
"How stupid do you think we are? That's not just an insult to Renee Good, that's an insult to every law enforcement everywhere. They're not trained to do that."
The Trump administration's response to the shooting has been roundly denounced by leading political experts, while ex-GOP member Adam Kinzinger says he worries for the long-term impact the shooting will cause.
He said, "If this doesn't wake the American people up, and if this doesn't create enough pushback on the administration, I fear what is next. I fear what this escalation chain does."
"You're going to have ICE agents who see the community as the enemy, and you're going to have the community see law enforcement as the enemy. That is never good. That is not the point of law enforcement."