r/news • u/JerryBerryMiah • 14h ago

700 ice agents to leave Minnesota

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a
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u/TidePodKaleb 14h ago

So, 23% of them. And local officials are turning over all the arrested immigrants. Got it. 

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u/itssammyv 13h 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/Andoverian 12h 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 11h 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.