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Homeland Security on Twin Cities transit prompts Twitter response
StarTribune.com ^ | 3/22/17 | Janet Moore

Posted on 03/22/2017 7:38:37 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

The presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) police officers on light-rail trains in the Twin Cities provoked unease among some passengers Wednesday. Several took to Twitter to express their dismay.

But Metro Transit said the DHS officers are part of a Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) team working with its own police force to help ensure security on public trains and buses. The VIPR officers do not engage in any enforcement actions, and have worked with the department for “more than a decade,” said Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: homeland; ice; snowflakes; twitter
Had to excerpt because it's the Star and Sickle. Read the whole thing. And the comments.

Hold your guts while you laugh them out.

1 posted on 03/22/2017 7:38:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“This prompted Metro Transit to tweet an assurance that DHS officers “do not do immigration sweeps.”

So those arrested/deported this month were not immigration sweeps? Ok gotcha..;)


2 posted on 03/22/2017 7:44:45 PM PDT by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Make work for rent a cops.


3 posted on 03/22/2017 7:55:17 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: max americana

I believe that the “sweeps” were conducted by ICE, not DHS.

Either way, get ‘em on the run.


4 posted on 03/22/2017 7:58:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I fervently hope that jihadists do not begin attacking mass transit within the United States as they have done in the past from time to time in Israel.
5 posted on 03/22/2017 8:11:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So three commies or jihadists or delusional liberals make some stupid comments and the Star-Tribune takes them seriously?

Hell, be glad that DHS and other law enforcement agencies are guarding the light rail, subways, trains, etc. because they are prime targets for all types of extremists (witness the Japanese poison gas attacks in the subways years ago; the blowing up of British buses; attempted and real attacks on airplanes on the ground and in the air; trucks killing hundreds (including the attack that killed at least 4 in Westminster, England today, and the fact that Minneapolis is one of the leading US cities that supplies Al Shahab in Somalia with its jihadist terrorists and suicide bombers.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the light rail ride?


6 posted on 03/22/2017 8:41:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The VIPR officers do not engage in any enforcement actions...

Sounds like those LifeLock Tv ads.

7 posted on 03/23/2017 3:06:53 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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