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Trump: First you have to say “please.”
Updated 02/01/2026 – 01:00 amReading time: 27 minutes
People in 46 states are demonstrating against ICE operations. Trump defends his homeland security secretary. All developments in the news blog.
US President Donald Trump has ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to send federal officers to Democratic-run cities to help with riots until they request it. However, he wants to continue to protect federal buildings with federal police officers and has instructed the ICE agency and the border police to take “strong action” against people who threaten federal property or officials. “There will be no more spitting attacks on officers or people kicking in the taillights of our cars,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He called on US state authorities to better protect federal property. He is ready to help: “But first you have to say the word ‘please’.”
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of a 5-year-old boy whose detention by immigration authorities in Minnesota last week sparked international outrage.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said in a harsh court order that the Trump administration must release Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrián Alexander Conejo Arias, by Tuesday. The father and son were taken into custody by immigration authorities on January 20 while the child was on his way home from kindergarten. Since then, the two have been held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
US President Donald Trump has publicly stood in front of his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. On Truth Social he wrote on Saturday afternoon German time: “The radical left-wing lunatics, rioters, agitators and gangsters are attacking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem because she is a woman and has done a really great job.” Trump then makes a series of statements – for example, that the border is “fixed” and that his political opponents “should all be in prison.”
