A source told NBC News that Vance will be in Minneapolis for a roundtable discussion with local leaders and community members.

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance will travel to Minneapolis Thursday for a roundtable discussion with local leaders and community members, a source familiar with the plans told NBC News.

Vance already has a trip to Toledo, Ohio, planned, but the source confirmed with NBC that the vice president will fly to Minneapolis afterward.

The stop comes as protests continue throughout the state as federal agents continue to carry out immigration operations across Minnesota. Democratic lawmakers and local law enforcement have criticized tactics being used by the U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. 

Less than two weeks ago, 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. Vance spoke at a press conference the following day, calling Good’s death “a tragedy of her own making.” He went on to support the claims that the ICE agent, later identified as Jonathan Ross, was acting in self-defense. 

Sources told the Washington Post and CNN that the FBI briefly opened a civil rights investigation into Ross, but the Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche, appeared on Fox News Sunday, saying the shooting does not warrant a federal investigation. 

A second shooting occurred in Minneapolis one week after Good’s killing, prompting louder calls by protesters and Democratic lawmakers for federal immigration operations to leave Minnesota.

On Tuesday, local law enforcement held a press conference to share their concerns about the federal agents’ conduct and recent interactions, including one instance when a Brooklyn Park officer was pulled over and asked to show proof of U.S. citizenship.

“When she became concerned about the rhetoric and the way she was being treated, she pulled out her phone in an attempt to record the incident, the phone was knocked out of her hands, preventing her from recording it,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said. “The [agents] had their guns drawn during the incident and the officer became so concerned she was forced to identify herself as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing and de-escalating the incident.” 

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said she has seen multiple recent incidents of ICE agents using racial profiling to stop U.S. citizens. 

“I am seeing and hearing about people in Hennepin County stopped, questioned and harassed solely because of the color of their skin,” Witt said. “We cannot let people in our communities think that our local law enforcement leadership is okay with actions that are not only wrong, but illegal.” 

Vance last visited Minnesota back in September, following the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in south Minneapolis.