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Common sense is prevailing on both sides as ICE finalizes its draw-down of “Operation Metro Surge” enforcement in Minnesota; we pray the lesson proves lasting: Hyper-polarized politics can actually kill.
Hard-left agitators — seeking to end immigration enforcement and dissolve America in the name of anticolonialism — worked in overdrive to delegitimize ICE as a rogue army of untrained Trump partisans.
These anarchists and their well-meaning dupes swarmed federal agents, blew whistles and honked horns, physically interrupted arrests and threatened to dox and kill ICE officers — with the extremists trying desperately to provoke a violent response and draw public outrage.
Unfortunately, they succeeded, in part: Renee Good and Alex Pretti lost their lives after tangling unnecessarily with federal officers while local cops seemingly stood down.
Politicians local and national took up their deaths as a cause for grandstanding, as Mayor Jacob Frey demonstrated by grotesquely telling ICE to “get the f–k out of Minneapolis!” while Gov. Tim Walz called ICE a “modern-day Gestapo and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner swore to “hunt down” ICE officers “for decades.”
Lamentably, Homeland Security scored some own goals, as “Border Czar” Tom Homan acknowledged in his Thursday press conference: “There were some issues here and we addressed those issues.”
It sure looks like DHS Secretary Kristi Noem didn’t know what she was sending thousands of agents into, nor get them the training they needed. --->READ MORE HERE
White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that a “small” security force is set to stay in Minnesota after announcing last week that Trump administration immigration crackdown efforts were set to end in the state.
“There will be a small force, a security force … that will respond to when our agents are out and they get surrounded by agitators and things get out of control,” Homan told CBS News’s Ed O’Keefe on “Face the Nation.”
“And they’ll remain for a short period of time, just to make sure the coordination, the agreements we have with local and state law enforcement stay in place and they respond to a public safety threat when needed. And so hopefully those security forces — security — a small footprint of security forces can remove — can be removed really fairly quickly,” he added.
Throughout President Trump’s second term, his administration has faced criticism for its strict immigration agenda. That criticism has ramped up in recent weeks, especially in the wake of federal immigration authorities shooting and killing two people, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, in Minneapolis
Homan announced last Wednesday that Trump administration immigration crackdown efforts were set to end in Minnesota. The border czar defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol’s work, pointing to cooperation alongside local officials and law enforcement, as well as a notable drop in agitators, as to how the operation had been successful. --->READ MORE HERE
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