Minneapolis live updates: ICE arrest powers expanded, memo says

President Donald Trump says federal law enforcement officers will not help quell protests unless asked by local leaders while instructing DHS officials to still protect federal property.

“I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help,” Trump said Saturday in a post on his social media platform.

“We will, however, guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists,” he added.

Trump emphasizes that agents will be ready to protect federal property should that be necessary but puts the onus on local and state police, writing "it is your obligation to also protect our Federal Property, Buildings, Parks, and everything else. We are there to protect Federal Property, only as a back up, in that it is Local and State Responsibility to do so,” he said.

Trump later threatens deploying the military to areas where federal property is being damaged.

“Therefore, to all complaining Local Governments, Governors, and Mayors, let us know when you are ready, and we will be there — But, before we do so, you must use the word, “PLEASE.” Remember that I stated, in the strongest of language, to BEWARE — ICE, Border Patrol or, if necessary, our Military, will be extremely powerful and tough in the protection of our Federal Property.”

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, asylum seekers who were arrested last week in Minnesota, were ordered to be released by a federal judge in Texas on Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, released from the immigration detention center at Dilley "as soon as practicable" but no later than Feb. 3.

The judge concluded his opinion with a photo of the five-year-old when he was detained.

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-ABC News' John Quinones, Laura Romero, and James Scholz

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expanded their agents ability to make arrests when they don't have a warrant, according to a memo reviewed by ABC News.

"It is without a doubt that ICE immigration officers will encounter additional aliens present in violation of the immigration laws or otherwise removable during at-large operations," the Jan. 28 memo, signed by Acting Director Todd Lyons, said.

"In that case, immigration officers must immediately determine whether an administrative warrant can be timely obtained. If an authorized supervisory immigration officer is present or otherwise accessible, he or she may immediately issue Form I-200 if probable cause of removability is established," he added.

"If no supervisor is available to issue an administrative warrant, or a supervisor cannot timely issue an administrative warrant, then the officer or agent must consider whether a warrantless immigration arrest is permissible," the memo said.

ICE has said they are going after those who are targets of an enforcement operation, but the memo expands that authority, administratively.

The memo allows for ICE agents to arrest someone for being in the U.S. illegally, if an officer feels the subject is "likely to escape" before a warrant can be issued.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

A federal judge in Los Angeles allowed Don Lemon to be released on his own recognizance following the former CNN journalist's arrest in connection with an incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a Minnesota church service.

In brief remarks outside the courthouse on Friday, Lemon said he was arrested for "something that I've been doing for the last 30 years, and that is covering the news," and vowed to not stop that work.

"The First Amendment of the Constitution protects that work for me and for countless of other journalists who do what I do," he said. "I stand with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court."

Lemon and eight others are charged with conspiracy against rights of religious freedom and an attempt to injure while exercising religious freedom in the two-count indictment, which was unsealed Friday.