President Trump marked the first full year of his second presidency Tuesday with a White House press briefing, where the first order of business was highlighting "the murders and drug dealers ... and a lot of bad people" who are among the 3,000-some people arrested by federal agents since last month in Operation Metro Surge, a number provided by Homeland Security officials.  

Following a seven-week span were federal agents shot two people in Minnesota, one of whom fatally, Mr. Trump admitted federal law enforcement are "going to make mistakes sometimes," but said they're dealing with "rough" people.

When asked about the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis, the president stated, "I understand both sides of it," and echoed similar statements he made last week in a CBS News interview, namely who Good was likely a "very, solid wonderful person," but her actions were "pretty tough" in the moments before her killing.

Mr. Trump held up several wanted-style posters of whom he describes as "the worst of the worst" in Minnesota, placing blame on his predecessor's administration.

"[Former President Joe] Biden wouldn't do this because he let them all in," Trump said.

The president then said "agitators and insurrectionists" are behind Minnesota's "incredible" crime problems, and noted how the country's "Hispanic" residents comprise both a majority of the make-up of immigration officers and those arrested for immigration-related offenses.

"They talk about Hispanic, they're mostly Hispanic, right? And they're unbelievable people. And then they say, 'Oh, we discriminate against ...' I love Hispanic. They are unbelievable. Entrepreneurial, they have everything. I did great, I did the highest, nobody ever got numbers like I got from the standpoint of being a Republican," Mr. Trump told reporters.

Mr. Trump's Minnesota mission was one of several topics he discussed in Tuesday's briefing, in addition to boasting his administration's wins, including lower some pharmaceutical prices. He also lamented the perception gap between the economic strife many Americans have been experiencing in his first year back in office and the "bad public relations people" in his administration that haven't been getting the word out on the rebounding economy.

Wall Street has taken a hit on Tuesday amid Mr. Trump's comments on Europe's lack of willingness to support the U.S. acquisition of Greenland, and his threats to unleash widespread tariffs against several European Union nations.

Kaia Hubbard, Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson and Caitlin Yilek contributed to this report.

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Marcos Charles will hold a briefing on the federal immigration crackdown operations underway in Minneapolis

The news conference is set for 2 p.m. CBS News Minnesota will stream live. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and others were subpoenaed in connection with a DOJ probe into an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration officers, three sources told CBS News.

The subpoenas represent a significant escalation between the Justice Department and Minnesota officials, who have clashed over the Trump administration's intense crackdown against immigrants living in the state illegally.

Multiple sources have told CBS News the statute being used as the basis for the probe is 18 U.S.C. § 372 — the same one that was used against some of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Walz, on Tuesday, invited President Trump to come to Minnesota and "see our values in action."

"I invite you to join me, and others in our community, to help restore calm and order and reaffirm that true public safety comes from shared purpose, trust, and respect," Walz posted. 

Legal observers are weighing the likelihood of outcomes connected to a lawsuit filed Jan. 12 that seeks an order to halt or limit the surge of immigration enforcement action in Minnesota.

Ilan Wurman, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Minnesota Law School, doubts the state's arguments will be successful.

"There's no question that federal law is supreme over state law, that immigration enforcement is within the power of the federal government, and the president, within statutory bounds, can allocate more federal enforcement resources to states who've been less cooperative in that enforcement space than other states have been," Wurman told The Associated Press.

Julia Decker, policy director at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, expressed frustration that advocates have no way of knowing whether the government's arrest numbers and descriptions of the people in custody are accurate. U.S. citizens have been dragged from their homes and vehicles during the Minnesota surge.

"These are real people we're talking about, that we potentially have no idea what is happening to them," Decker said.

Public safety leaders from across the Twin Cities on Tuesday called on some of the federal agents in the area to correct their conduct, accusing them of violating civil rights and torpedoing trust in law enforcement.

"Recently as the last two weeks, we as the law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from U.S. citizens," Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said.

"I am seeing and hearing about people in Hennepin County stopped, questioned and harassed solely because of the color of their skin — 'solely' being the operative word here," Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said. "This is not OK now and it's never been OK."

Witt said the actions of federal agents are undermining efforts to restore trust in law enforcement in an area that has been scarred by police violence.

"The trust is fragile right now, and it is an essential element to public safety," Witt said. "Today that trust is being damaged, broken by the questionable and sometimes unethical actions of some — some — federal agents, particularly in these last recent weeks."

Bruley, Witt and St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry spoke at the morning news conference, calling for greater accountability for the federal agents here and more oversight from the people in charge.

"We demand more from our federal government," Witt said. "More professionalism, more accountability, more humanity. We demand lawful policing that respects human dignity."

Bruley claimed it is "a small group of agents within the surge in the metro area that are performing or acting this way" and said he and the other leaders are not calling for an end to immigration enforcement.

"We're calling to action that we have more supervision over the surge, that this type of civil rights violations have to stop," he said.

Bruley said he has attempted to reach out to federal leaders to discuss the issue, but has met with disorder and irresponsibility.

"When you call ICE leadership or you call Border Patrol leadership or you call Homeland Security leadership, they're unable to tell you what their people were doing that day," he said. "They're hard to find a leader to give you to, they like to give you a website to go file a complaint, but the complaint requires identity of the agents. The agents don't have nametags on, they cover their face, they don't have body cameras."

"I don't think the leaders in Washington, D.C., fully understand what some of their groups are doing here on the street and how much damage that they're causing and that is why we are here to bring this to light," Bruley added.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara was not at Tuesday's presser, said something similar in a "60 Minutes" interview.

"Targeted, precise, preplanned operations on violent offenders, that is a good thing," O'Hara said. "But I'm concerned that people in the administration don't actually understand the reality of what's happening on the street."  

The U.S. Department of Justice says claims made in a lawsuit seeking an immediate stop to the surge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota are "legally frivolous."

The lawsuit, filed late last week, argues the unprecedented surge of an estimated 3,000 federal agents is endangering citizens. It accuses ICE of violating the First and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  

According to the memorandum, the DOJ argues the plaintiffs' "Tenth Amendment and related claims have not a shred of legal support" and that their "motion should therefore be denied." The federal agency made the remark in a memorandum filed with the U.S. District Court in Minnesota on Monday, which argued against a motion made by the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul for a temporary injunction.

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With thousands of federal agents active in the state as part of Operation Metro Surge, the University of Minnesota says it's making changes to support students, faculty and staff.

The university says students will have the option to attend some classes virtually, depending on their courses, and guidance on that will come from their deans' offices. 

Building access is also tightening. Nearly all buildings will require badge access, which means carrying a U Card is imperative.

Some public spaces, including student unions and museums, will remain open to the public. 

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The lawyer for the family of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, says he issued a demand to federal officials last week to preserve evidence, but is still waiting for a response.

"We will move forward with or without any government agency sharing any evidence," said Antonio Romanucci, of Chicago-based firm Romanucci and Blandin. 

The FBI is investigating the shooting, but said there is "no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation."

Amid a blare of horns and shouting from witnesses, federal agents removed an elderly Hmong-American man from his St. Paul, Minnesota, home on Sunday.

"It is heartbreaking. It is infuriating to see U.S. citizens, and this gentleman was a U.S. citizen, ripped out of his house without a shirt on, without a coat, without pants, wearing his boxers and Crocs. I don't know how anyone could watch that happen to anyone," Mark Goldberg said.

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