Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — perhaps best known for inciting Black Lives Matter riots and abandoning a police department to rioters in 2020 — is using the tragic officer-involved shooting of a woman to reignite the same radical forces that led to such destruction just over five years ago.
“To ICE, get the hell out of Minneapolis. We don’t want you here,” Frey said this week, demonstrating the same reckless behavior that tragically contributed to the destruction of his city.
While this most recent statement was intended for social media clicks and attention-grabbing headlines, another statement made at the same press conference was even more irresponsible and further removed from reality.
“They (ICE) are not here to ensure safety in this city (…) they are sowing chaos in our streets, and people are literally dying in this case,” Frey continued.
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These are not the words of a serious person.
Such a statement, made just hours after the shooting, is false and ridiculously places all the blame on law enforcement while the investigation is still ongoing. Now that Jacob Frey is in power, the “Defund the Police” movement is alive and well.
The truth is, this tragedy probably could have been prevented without the radical policies of Mayor Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, which the Department of Justice is taking legal action against.
The state of Minnesota is listed as a sanctuary city by the Department of Justice, which identifies places that have “policies, laws or regulations that impede the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
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In Minneapolis, the city’s so-called “Separation Ordinance” prohibits any participation in federal immigration enforcement and requires the city to “strongly oppose any attempt to require the use of municipal resources to enforce federal immigration laws.”
In reality, state and local cooperation in federal law enforcement operations is a critical element that keeps both law enforcement officers and citizens safe. When local law enforcement is involved, they provide crowd control, open roads, make arrests, and share local intelligence to better inform operational decisions.
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Take Florida, a state where Governor Ron DeSantis has directed that every state and local law enforcement agency support ICE operations through 287(g) agreements. Operation Tidal Wave, led by a coalition of state, local and federal agencies, has resulted in more than 10,000 arrests of criminal illegal aliens. Rather than actively obstructing ICE operations, law enforcement in the state of Florida has worked with the federal government to keep Americans safe and uphold the rule of law.
Minnesota and Minneapolis could follow the Florida model, but their fervently anti-Trump and anti-law enforcement leaders would rather play politics than provide public safety to their constituents.
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In just a few weeks, ICE has apprehended more than a thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota, including sexual predators, rapists, murderers, gang members and other violent illegal aliens. These are the people Mayor Frey and Governor Walz’s policies are designed to protect, not law-abiding Americans.
This is our message to Mayor Frey: real “chaos” comes from policies that release dangerous illegal aliens into American neighborhoods, not from legal immigration enforcement operations.
Unfortunately, Mayor Frey is not alone in his radical political stance against federal law enforcement. Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois, Representative Ilhan Omar, Governor Gavin Newsom and countless other politicians have repeatedly called the men and women of federal law enforcement racists, Nazis, Gestapo and illegal military occupiers.
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These statements should mean disqualification from public service.
No one who compares Americans to our historic enemies should have any place of decision-making power in our nation.
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ICE’s mission is incredibly dangerous, but not new. ICE agents have been enforcing immigration laws for decades. The only thing that has changed is the dangerous rhetoric of the radical left, which has resulted in a historic 1,300 percent increase in threats and attacks – including numerous vehicle ramming attacks – and an 8,000 percent increase in death threats. ICE is no different from any other law enforcement agency, and its officers deserve respect, due process, and political leadership that has their backs.
Minnesota is in crisis – from historic fraud to the latest anti-law enforcement rhetoric. It is clear to most Americans that Mayor Frey must resign before his dangerous rhetoric and policies cause even more chaos and destruction.
Cooper J. Smith is Director of Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute. He previously served as a policy advisor at the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration.
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