Axman88 wrote on 01/31/26 at 10:16:51:If seems to me that the question people should be asking is,
- If ICE's mission is to find and arrest illegal immigrants, WHY would they go to Minneapolis, MN to pursue this?
The 2.4% of illegal immigrants to be found there is lower than the national average of 4.1%. There are only an estimated 130,000 immigrants in the entire STATE of Minnesota. If ICE was looking to find "the worst of the worst", or indeed ANY illegal immigrants, they would be someplace where there is a high incidence of illegal immigrants. 1.6 million in Florida, 2.1 million in Texas.
Why search for needles in a haystack, when you know where there is a needle warehouse?
Minneapolis has something like 10,300 illegals in TOTAL, and the federal government decides to send 2 or 3 thousand agents to round them up?
The fact that ICE and Border Patrol remain in Minneapolis at all, makes it clear that they are NOT there to catch illegals.
When our members who want to defend the egregious behaviour of these agents start acknowledging the most basic facts of the situation, the rest of us can start taking what they say seriously.
I suspect Trump selected Minneapolis because 1) his tremendous dislike of Watz 2) they are a very public and active sanctuary city 3) also on Trump’s $hitlist after various riots during the Floyd protests
I don’t think the recent Somalian fraud had been exposed yet, but I could be wrong about that.
A more interesting question is why the massive protests when other states did not experience protest like that despite more immigration arrest?
Could it be the protests were encouraged by politicians who are likely to be investigated for fraud? The Governor is not running and his public life is over yet is encouraging protest despite knowing they’ll remain violent? Is this some sort of face saving strategy?
Seems as likely as Trump selecting Minneapolis because he hates Watz.