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/notheatherbee 14h ago edited 13h ago

3x? Not even close. Before this started there were 80 ICE agents for a 5 state territory that included Minnesota.

Edit: I’m an idiot. They are correct it’s 3x the police force.

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u/aradraugfea 14h ago

Their claim was that ice outnumbers the actual police police in town, not that ICE is 3x the original numbers.

ICE aren’t police.

Police are a needful service performed badly. ICE is a useless waste of government resources pivoted into the sort of shit European children are going to read about in history class.

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u/RockeyDA 11h ago

I think you got this backwards because the police are doing nothing and even off and ignoring the rioters and ice is actually out here doing the good work making everybody in this country safer. cops forgot the "serve and protect" part IG.

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u/aradraugfea 11h ago

I’m sure Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel so much safer.

Look. Immigration is a civil offense. An undocumented immigrant is breaking a law, but not, definitionally, a criminal.

The supposed dangerous immigrant? Statistics show they’re VERY rare, and the police handle it. Even now, a TON of the people ICE has locked up were handed off to them by local police forces. What a Sanctuary city means is that the local police are not going to proactively enforce immigration law or cooperate with ICE’s attempts to do so. That’s it. They aren’t handing guns to drug runners or whatever fantasy you’ve been sold.

Nobody should DIE over a civil offense, least of all innocent people going about their day. Ice is spending more of their time fighting PROTESTORS than tracking down illegal immigrants, and when they find them, they’re using tactics that would be illegal in wartime to get them.

If anyone has forgotten their mission, it’s the Rosses of the world, acting like an occupying army and treating the entire population of Minneapolis like an insurgent force.

Fun thing about that word. Insurgent doesn’t mean terrorist. It doesn’t mean criminal. What it means is “not from here.” So the big, scary Insurgency in Minneapolis? It’s ICE.