'Hundreds more' US agents head to Minnesota after shooting: Top official

"We're sending more officers today and tomorrow," said US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Hundreds of additional federal agents are bound for Minneapolis after the killing of a woman in the Midwestern city by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer prompted mass protests, a top Trump administration official said Sunday.

FILE PHOTO: US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (REUTERS)

"We're sending more officers today and tomorrow," US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

“There will be hundreds more in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.”