Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were given two new critical directives on Wednesday that will change how they conduct operations in Minnesota. The new orders instruct ICE officers to focus only on arresting illegal immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions. However, large groups of protesters have targeted ICE operations throughout the country even before the incidents in Minnesota, beginning after President Donald Trump ordered illegal immigration enforcement operations to commence. On multiple occasions, protests have turned violent with participants trying to harm ICE officers in a variety of ways, including throwing Molotov cocktails at officers, weaponizing automobiles to target ICE officers, and a sniper trying to shoot officers at a detention facility. ICE officers have endured an “8,000% increase in death threats against them and a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them,” said the Department of Homeland Security.