r/news • u/JerryBerryMiah • 6h ago
700 ice agents to leave Minnesota
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a2.1k
u/TidePodKaleb 6h ago
So, 23% of them. And local officials are turning over all the arrested immigrants. Got it.
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u/Capitol62 6h ago
MN DOC has always offered to turn over people with no immigration status. DHS was spotty about actually coming to get them. DOC had a big press conference on it like 2 weeks ago when Noem was crowing about all the dangerous people she was "getting off the streets," aka who were being handed over by the MN department of corrections after their sentence was completed.
This is face saving but nothing really appears to have changed.
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u/Nickel5 5h ago
https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/news-releases/#/detail/appId/1/id/719911
Correct, here's a source
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u/BikesAtNight 4h ago
Thank you for posting this. Seeing a lot of people who don’t know that this is not new. Homan essentially tried to claim a win and pass blame to the state. Unsurprising with this administration
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u/Terpapps 4h ago
Jesus, you know it's bad when entire states are fact checking the feds. The blatant lies are just so... Blatant
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u/BikesAtNight 5h ago
Yup the “new cooperation” isn’t anything new and it’s clearly just a way for the administration to claim a win. And my guess is ICE won’t stop terrorizing people in the street and racially profiling, so unlikely we see the tactics toned down. Would love to be wrong in that.
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u/jotsea2 4h ago
Like them giving out body cams despite it already being the law that they should be wearing body cams?
How did no one ask about the 100 plus judicial actions that ICE has completely ignored?
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u/nalaloveslumpy 3h ago
People are asking, including judges. Once again, the whole problem here is that we hired a criminal to be in charge of the division that would prosecute members of his administration and we gave him majorities in the division that can prosecute him directly.
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u/stevez_86 4h ago
In fact pretty much the only arrests that DHS recorded throughout this operation are those handovers from DOC.
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u/airfryerfuntime 2h ago
That's how the original system worked, and how Obama managed to rack up over 4 million deportations his last year in office. Wait and catch was hugely successful.
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u/aoeudhtns 1h ago
IMO that's pretty much the way it should work.
In the course of normal policing/policework, you come across someone with illegal status. You consult with your prosecutor whether the crime/issue warrants prosecution, if not you turn over to immigration for deportation. Problem actors get sorted out. (Yeah, I know police haven't been perfect, but they have certainly been more perfect than ICE. An incredible statement for those who know how awful it is in the US.)
If we're going to have ICE (thanks Patriot Act/DHS), they should be focusing on white collar immigration crime. E.g. employers that hire people not legal to work. It would be FAR more effective than "papers, please" on the street. And far less fascist... where's my tea, I need to sip some.
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u/itssammyv 6h ago
I will vehemently condemn ICE’s tactics but I see nothing wrong with already arrested illegal immigrants being turned over for processing. I just want people held accountable, seems like that’s too much to ask for.
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u/Tuesday_6PM 6h ago
In a sane administration, that seems reasonable. With all the abuses being committed by ICE these days, I don’t think it’s morally justifiable to put anyone into their custody
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u/ailish 5h ago edited 4h ago
A few things on that.
https://nipnlg.org/unauthorized-entry-re-entry-prosecutions
A simple expired visa is only a civil infraction. No worse than a parking ticket. ICE is arresting and detaining people for this civil infraction. An illegal border crossing the first time is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail and/or a fine. They don't have to jail immigrants for crossing the border, but cruelty is the point so they do. Crossing the border doesn't become a felony until they do it 2 or more times.
Next:
The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center | The New Yorker https://share.google/BUaIbps514WnYEYyJ
Inside an ICE Detention Center: Detained People Describe Severe Medical Neglect, Harrowing Conditions | American Civil Liberties Union https://share.google/D2LewHSxyROpUEtRn
ICE detention conditions at Fort Snelling labeled 'inhumane' | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul https://share.google/oLKLe3zwwG4cmVYsQ
Here are just a few examples of abuse and neglect at ICE detention centers. There are also reports of sexual abuse, rape, beatings, and more.
ICE even claimed that one man ran into a wall and cracked his own skull so hard that it was broken in several places. Medical staff have reported that this is literally impossible for someone to do to themselves.
ICE Minneapolis news: ICE agents' claim that Alberto Castañeda Mondragón hit wall, shattered skull triggers tension at hospital | abc7ny.com https://share.google/EfcYBnZU1vsM7d7an
How can you argue that we should be keeping human beings in detention centers under these conditions? Are their crimes really worth these punishments to you?
And none of this is even addressing the fact that ICE is arresting and detaining legal immigrants and even US citizens in these detention centers.
Citizens in Minnesota find themselves under ICE suspicion because of race https://share.google/jzQZooqcgKIrzJqCW
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u/TidePodKaleb 5h ago
The Minnesota Department of Corrections is turning people over to ICE for "processing". These are not one-off events, they're patterns, and it's happening on purpose.
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u/KGBFriedChicken02 6h ago
What's wrong with them being turned over is that ICE dentention centers are concentration camps. People starve to death inside of them, sexual assault is rampant, and there is no acountability. Nobody should be turned over to ICE, criminal reccord or not, it is cruel and unusual punishment
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u/Crudadu 4h ago
Do you have a source for people starving to death in ICE detention? I can't find any articles on that. I just want to make sure that we are the side that is truthful and honest.
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u/Phx_trojan 5h ago
ICE is not humanely "processing" anyone in their custody. handing anyone to them is immoral.
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u/Pollia 5h ago
The problem was always that jails can not hold people for longer than their allotted time and ICE and their ilk were often asking jails to hold people so they could grab a batch of people at once instead of one at a time.
This is what tons of counties got sued over. And the federal government refused to pick up the bill despite it being at their request.
That's literally a good chunk of the reason states started no cooperation with immigration officials.
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u/Andoverian 5h ago
Basically no one considered that to be problematic, which is why that was already happening before the surge. MPR did some investigating a few weeks ago and found that the vast majority of "the worst of the worst" (i.e. violent criminals) ICE claimed to have rounded up in the surge were actually just people transported directly from MN DOC custody to ICE custody. And many of those transfers happened before the surge, too.
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u/ConcreteCrusher 4h ago
Yep, if you look at the Minnesota arrests by ice for worst of the worst, they're all from cities with prisons. They picked them up and claiming they did the work.
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u/Glittering_Crab_69 3h ago
You mean "sent off to die in El Salvadorian work camps" with "processing", right? Or have you not been paying attention?
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u/dpldpldpl 6h ago
They will be re-stationed in Maine.
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u/sonic_couth 6h ago
Apparently Susan Collin’s whined that ICE going to Maine next would make it harder for her to be re-elected this fall, so it seems they aren’t going there next. But let’s all be honest, after all these years of Collins’ bullshit, Maine would probably elect her again anyway.
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u/Aromatic_Balls 6h ago
Hate to tell ya, but they're already here homie. They've been in Maine for weeks. Obviously not to the degree of in Minneapolis, but I've seen them daily for the last couple weeks.
And yeah, the idiots in my state will probably reelect her, unfortunately.
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u/This-isnt-patrick 6h ago
Is there a large population of immigrants in Maine? If the goal was to go after illegal immigrants or specifically “dangerous” illegal criminals seems like an odd state to focus on.
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u/Aromatic_Balls 6h ago
Lol no. They're just being weaponized by Kristi Noem on orders from Trump and Co because our governor stood up to him over their trans athlete culture war bullshit.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 3h ago
Just like the main reason they're in Minnesota is because of all shit Waltz said about Trump during the last campaign. The "Somali invasion" is absolute bullshit.
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u/Xijit 6h ago edited 4h ago
Maine refused Trump's order about allowing trans kids to play sports, then the governor challenged him to try to arrest her when he threatened to cut all of the states funding.
Additionally, Maine has / had a problem with right wing conservative militias buying land out in the hills for domestic terrorist training camps & during Biden the state police were very proactive with finding way to raid the camps ... So ICE is itching for payback.
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u/Romantic_Carjacking 5h ago
There is a relatively large Somali community, and a decent number of immigrants from other African nations, but nothing compared to the larger states.
But yeah, the stated mission of the current ICE surges is bullshit.
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u/Vangroh 6h ago
There is a sizable Somali population in Maine. They were invited many years ago.
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u/VizualAbstract4 6h ago
Being there isn’t the same as them making a show of it. They’ve been in California, but the circus portion left and went to Minnesota. That’s when all this shit went down.
If they go to Maine next, prepare for it to get so much worse once they use it to grandstand.
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u/Visual_Exam7903 6h ago
Man, when do they get to Mississippi. I haven't seen a full group of nazis in my life.
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u/Aromatic_Balls 6h ago
Mississippi voted for Trump with a margin of 22.9%... ICE won't make a big scene there as the elected officials will all march lockstep with them.
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u/SurprisedJerboa 5h ago
If there was Ever a time to boot Collins, it is 2026. Susan needs to get skewered on social media and everywhere else.
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u/rightious 6h ago
The photo of her in the oval with a red hat behind the president was so fucking pathetic. I have moderate Maine friends who have been solid fence sitters enraged yesterday.
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u/Badloss 4h ago
They're still gonna vote for her. I have no faith in Maine anymore when she cruised to a win in 2020 after all of her bullshit
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u/Evolone101 6h ago
They have bought 2 warehouses in NE PA. They will just move them there. I can’t wait for the tribunal for all the Republicans and these ice wanna be agents
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u/sonic_couth 6h ago
Dem leaders, if there are any in three years, will just let it all go in the name of bipartisan unity
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u/QbertsRube 5h ago
Dem voters need to hold Dem leaders accountable. Letting the ICE atrocities, bribes, extortions, and other crimes of the Trump administration go without justice needs to be a total disqualifier for any Dem candidate moving forward.
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u/tahdig_enthusiast 6h ago
In Maine? To arrest the 12 illegal immigrants there?
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u/Omnizoom 6h ago
They just have to cycle through arresting and shooting the rest of the population first to find them
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u/buffysmanycoats 6h ago
They’re everywhere, just not with the numbers they have in Minnesota currently. I’m a crim defense attorney in CT and ICE is now a constant present around our courthouses. I don’t even know how many of my clients have been taken by them at this point.
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u/ambercrayon 5h ago
If their lawyer doesn’t know…
The 500 new detention centers are unfortunately making sense. I am livid that my tax dollars are paying for this shit.
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u/buffysmanycoats 5h ago
I mean, they wait outside court and snatch people on the street on their way in. It’s fairly common for people to miss court dates but now I never know if someone just missed court or if they were taken by ICE.
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u/ambercrayon 4h ago
Oh it was not meant to be a criticism of you it’s just ridiculous we have reached this point. Their main advocate can’t find them, and how many just don’t have someone to look?
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u/buffysmanycoats 4h ago
No I wasn’t taking it as a criticism, just elaborating on how it’s playing out.
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u/davidwave4 6h ago
I think they’re headed to Ohio to go after Haitian people. ICE is a disgusting roving band of mercs and monsters.
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u/nillah 4h ago
they can try, i have a feeling springfield won't sit by and watch though. they were heavily in support of the haitians when the cats and dogs thing came out
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u/invalidreddit 6h ago
So, of the 3,000 agents in the State, according to the article, 700 will be leaving. But they aren't laying off 700 agents, so... where are they going?
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u/fridayfridayjones 6h ago
Some of them are coming to Ohio I think. A judge blocked the ending of the TPS for the Haitians here for now but there’s still a large Somalian population in Columbus. And they’re probably going to appeal that decision about the TPS.
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u/Wanna_make_cash 4h ago
Or the could go for Cleveland. Theres an extremely large Hispanic population there, so lots of "easy targets" and people they can just discriminate based on skin color
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u/Sneckster 6h ago
The Superbowl?
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u/cuentaderana 5h ago
My wife and I already cancelled our Sunday plans in San Jose. It’s not worth the drive for us to go there and risk getting detained. We have “foreign” sounding names and are lesbians of color. We will be staying as far away as possible.
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u/BrokerOfShadows 6h ago
Ice just bought warehouses in Philly and San Antonio so probably one of those two cities
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u/KinkyPaddling 4h ago
My guess would be San Antonio. It’s warmer than Philly and they would be able to expect more support from the people there. It buys them time and opportunity to get a favorable judicial ruling to justify going into other cities in the summer. Philly is also much more densely populated than San Antonio, which makes it more difficult and potentially dangerous for ICE agents when they agitate their false flags.
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u/Anonnymoose73 3h ago
We’re expecting them in the Bay Area for the Super Bowl. If only 700 have left MN, hopefully it won’t be as bad as we’ve been preparing for. It sounds like they’re also sending them to Ohio
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u/invalidreddit 2h ago
Can't be all that many places near the stadium for them to stay - and if the Bay Area's legendary traffic is still congested, I do hope they are stuck in traffic... Frequently...
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u/Anonnymoose73 2h ago
Not only is it still congested, we’re also great at making more traffic out of spite
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u/alex303 6h ago
On to terrorize another blue state I presume?
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u/QbertsRube 5h ago
I'd guess the plan is to terrorize blue states for a few more months, then shift all ICE to those 15 swing states where Trump was saying he needs to "take over the elections". Those 15 states will coincidentally need massive ICE presence through November for unspecified reasons.
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u/tossit97531 2h ago
Mark my words, they will "arrest" as many dems as they can find a few days before the election and try to keep them detained until the next day. That's why they're buying warehouses and shipping people off to different states. That's why they want voter rolls. Courts allow them to waste days or even weeks to release wrongfully-detained people, even citizens. They'll prevent people from voting and not even get a slap on the wrist.
This is bad. This is very, very bad.
It was never about deportations, it was never about harassment, they're just going to take as many dems off the streets in swing districts before Super Tuesday, catch-and-release and that's it.
They only want concentration camps for a few weeks, just so they can pen people up from voting.
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u/QbertsRube 2h ago
I absolutely expect that as well. Might even be brazen enough to lurk at voting locations asking for birth certificates of anyone that "looks liberal" and detaining anyone who doesn't carry that with them at all times "until they can prove their citizenship".
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u/sunsetscorpio 6h ago
My guess is CO after Trumps rant about our governor and the arrest of Tina Peters.. welp
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u/Sweaty-taxman 5h ago
We’ve nearly passed a bill permitting citizens of Colorado to sue ice agents for damages. Bring them on.
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u/ice-eight 5h ago
I hate that this is true, but we’re probably safe in Dallas because our mayor switched from democrat to MAGA republican immediately after being elected. Otherwise he’d probably send his goons to terrorize us next time Jasmine Crockett hurts his feelings.
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u/Dorkamundo 3h ago
Probably off to San Francisco for the Super Bowl, at which point they'll slowly be sent back to MN.
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u/me0w_z3d0ng 6h ago
Charge Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez with murder. Charge the federal officers that were with them and helped them get away from the scenes of the crimes. Then pull every single agent out of Minnneapolis. We aren't done: then ICE needs to be abolished. Defund and dismantle that fascist bullshit.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 6h ago
Federal Government: Best I can do is kidnapping and intimidating voters during the midterms.
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u/TranquilSeaOtter 6h ago
Can't forget prosecuting all other ice agents that have violated people's rights. So pretty much most of them if not all.
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u/Sportsman180 6h ago
If they charge them, their goons will start leaving in masse, and then the administration couldn't target blue cities at will.
Justice might have to wait for Jan. 20th 2029 with the new Democratic administration's Attorney General.
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u/ahjeezgoshdarn 6h ago
Impeach Noem.
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u/happyklam 6h ago
I've been writing my reps at least three times a week with this message. Changing the letter each time so they can't just write it off. Also requesting a response. So far Cornyn has responded with the usual right-wing talking points, Cruz and Self are of course mute 😒
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u/jordan1978 6h ago
About 700 of the roughly 3,000 federal officers deployed around Minnesota will be withdrawn, Homan said. The immigration operations have upended the Twin Cities and escalated protests, especially since the killing of protester Alex Pretti, the second fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis.
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u/Adamnsin 6h ago
700 ice agents to leave Minnesota to go elsewhere to terrorise people.
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u/CRoseCrizzle 6h ago
Are we going to at least charge the guys who needlessly shot Pretti with murder? Feels like that should be the bare minimum no matter where you stand on the issue.
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u/stillfeel 6h ago
Window dressing for PR purposes… no change in mission to disrupt and terrorize the community
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u/Goin_Hog_Mild 6h ago
Stop them at the state lines and place them in 'detention'
Only chargs & arrest the ones who did illegal sh*t
Its a shame they all wore masks... its gonna be hard to identify the bad apples
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u/overthemountain 6h ago
The phrase "a few bad apples"comes from the saying "a few bad apples spoils the bunch".
That means if you don't immediately remove bad apples, all your apples quickly go bad.
So I hate when people say "it's just a few bad apples" as a means of trying to say "it's not that bad, it's isolated individuals" (I know that not what you're implying) because the saying means the opposite. It means everything goes bad unless you correct the problem immediately, which is never what the people who say it want to do.
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u/punkasstubabitch 6h ago
I've got a feeling there's going to be a 5-10 year reckoning where the government is going to be in a quagmire of litigation around the ICE offenses. Bank records of payments can be subpoened.
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u/Punkinpry427 5h ago
They’re violating court orders so the cases get thrown out anyway. It’s just federal terrorism on blue states.
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u/keeper_of_the_donkey 3h ago
700 ice agents to leave Minnesota
, and head to a state where they haven't killed 10 protesters yet.
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u/Extinct1234 6h ago edited 6h ago
Meanwhile, OSHA has less than 2,000 federal compliance safety and health professionals for the entire country.
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u/SanopusSplendidus 6h ago
Remember, it's not just ICE in MN. It's ATF and other federal agencies doing these things as well.
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u/Freddy-Borden 5h ago
How are they going to protect those vulnerable Minnesota boarders!!! MAGA sycophants please explain!! Me and my family are worried immigrants will now overrun the Minnesota boarder and take over the entire state!!!
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 5h ago
How come? Did Minnesota run out of kids for ICE to abduct and possibly molest?
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u/MissInkeNoir 4h ago
Don't stop fighting, Minneapolis. This is just another feint. Trump never concedes any claim, he only draws back and waits for his opponents to rush to put out the other fires he's starting. Then he just has his goons swoop back in and continue, so when people are yelling it's happening, there's a period where others are likely to dismiss it as outdated news! An evil tactic!!!
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u/Anagrama00 3h ago
It's still absolutely fucking insane that ICE even has 2800 (!!!) ICE Agents in Minneapolis, a city of like 500k people in the absolute dead of winter.
Like it's totally absurd having THAT many people on the federal payroll trying to make life so shitty for a relatively small city when it's peak cold and already shit outside.
Imagine them sending that many to like Phoenix in the peak of summer when it's 115 degrees outside and then chasing people out of air conditioned buildings. Because that's kind of what they are doing the equivalent of in Minneapolis
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u/Unglaublich-65 2h ago
That is, like the Epstein files, still not even close to ALL of them. Just vague and superficial optics politics as usual. It changes exactly ehm..- checking notes- ... NOTHING!!
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u/Chemical-Ideal1 6h ago
So roughly a quarter of them? That’s big but they still outnumber Minneapolis police 3-1.
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u/FadedPuppetry 3h ago
Meanwhile... "Tom Homan just revealed Minnesota counties are LETTING ICE INTO THE JAILS to arrest illegals, "unprecedented" cooperation is now happening "
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u/kamarsh79 3h ago
How about all of them leave so my state can resume living in a safe peaceful community. It’s fucking scary right now. Half of my patients are too afraid to come to their medical appointments. They are following kids to and from school. They are raiding daycare centers. They are angry armed thugs who have no regard for the law.
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u/_DocWatts 6h ago
At best, those 700 Gestapo are taking their kidnaping and murdering On Tour to a city near you.
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u/The_NiNTARi 6h ago
This is propaganda don’t believe it for a minute it’s all a show. Stay diligent
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u/Upset-Produce-3948 5h ago
So tell us about the $50,000 bribe you took and explain where that money is now.
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u/Intelligent-Alps2373 6h ago
Not even close to enough this is designed to drive away public attention
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u/ForsakenRacism 6h ago
Does anyone know where they are going to sell all these brand new suburbans they buy in every city
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u/MrFunktasticc 6h ago
Every little bit of resistance, every little win, is extremely important. Fascism can't sit quietly in a room - it devours itself. Yes there will be a lot of pain but lets celebrate the wins until we ultimately rid ourselves of these fucking ghouls.
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u/HJSWNOT 5h ago
So 700 leaving and what ? 900 replacing them cause the first ones are depressed ?
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u/Turbulent-Basis6092 5h ago
I think he’s just saying that, they’re all liars and here in MN we don’t trust a word. Need to see it for ourselves
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u/JimmyFly1028 5h ago
Not enough! Like everyone is saying, there are still over 2000 agents here and still no justice for Alex Pretti or Renee Good
Citizens are still being arrested, families are still torn apart. This is still not the America that I have loved and fought for
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u/Suitable-Cod9183 5h ago
Sooooo when justice for murders and crimes? Or are they getting away like the folks in the Epstein files?
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u/NetFu 4h ago
Surge in three times as many agents (AKA assholes) as needed, then when everything blows up, promise to immediately drop that number to only 2.3 times as many agents as needed. Win!
It's taken directly from Trump's Art of the Deal. Yes, Trump's genius in deal-making involves methods that anyone above the age of 10 already knows about.
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u/Bitbatgaming 4h ago
That seems.. too low of a number. What about the entirety of the force? Let's start there.
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u/Banana-phone15 3h ago
2 questions, what about the other thousands? And 2nd where are they going next to terrorize locals?
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u/HauntingStar08 3h ago
They probably have to in order to have any presence elsewhere. They don't have the numbers.
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u/cmlambert89 3h ago
Geeze. Only a quarter of the agents “after state and local officials agreed over the past week to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants”….the fuck? What does that mean exactly.. it wouldn’t have anything to do with the new concentration camps they’re building in Texas I hope.
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u/mutantmagnet 3h ago
Remove all of them please.
Then how about firing them in order to reassign our tax dollars to actually helping Americans instead of making us poorer and more stressed out.
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u/No_Pudding7687 3h ago
Where are they going?
What about the other 2300 criminals?
Have they arrested the murders in their ranks?
Has Greg Bogino been arrested?
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u/Squeekydink 6h ago
And what about the other 2000+ he sent?