Posted on 12/03/2025 10:06:03 PM PST by Morgana
MINNEAPOLIS — A day after The New York Times reported federal immigration officials would launch an operation targeting Minnesota's Somali community, the mission began.
NBC News told KARE 11 on Wednesday morning that a senior law enforcement official confirmed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation is now underway.
The news comes after Twin Cities leaders, including both Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors, held a press conference Tuesday in response to The Times' report, pushing back on the federal government's stance on the deportation of immigrants and refugees.
The Minnesota branch of the nonprofit Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) held a press conference from its offices in south Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon.
Beforehand, Executive Director Jaylani Hussein referred to President Trump's disparaging remarks about immigration in recent days, saying, “These statements do not exist in a vacuum.”
“We are here yet again, after President Trump has now, almost every single day, targeted the Somali American community,” Hussein said from the press conference.
“… The ICE raids will be actually used as a weapon to terrorize the community, but not actually even do what they claim to be doing.”
The press conference also included remarks from Michelle Garnett-McKenzie, executive director of The Advocates for Human Rights.
"Individuals should be accountable for actions they commit, but no one should be punished for an act they did not commit," she said.
"Group reprisals, as Jaylani said, violate basic human rights principles of due process and equal protection. They violate the things that we hold most dear in this country, and the toxic rhetoric that's being weaponized right now against Somalis — in Minnesota in particular — and in different ways against different groups right now, is truly advancing an agenda that is bent on ending America's commitment to humanitarian protections."
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I voted for this.
Thanks for the post.
I think the first one to be arrested is that cop the Police Chief Brian O’Hara who said the police will refuse to cooperate in any arrests by ICE and people should call 911 on the agents.
Get him for too low a wattage light over his personal car’s license plate in back. There is a law about that. Impound the car for full vehicle safety assessment in a few weeks or so. Arrest him for assault when he gets angry over the ticket.
“Look at their nation. Look how bad their nation. It’s not even a nation. It’s just a people walking around killing each other.” —President Trump
That sums it up
That’s also true of Chicago, which admittedly is not a nation.
Yea but they are the same color of people.
Hah——love, love, love it.
We all did.
We all did.
Thank God for President Trump, Todd Lyons (Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and Tom Homan (the "border czar").
I hope Dearborn MI is next!
Time for Command Sergeant Major Walz to return to active duty?
Contrary to the breathless reporting, ICE is there for the worst of the worst first.
I hope ICE makes a big public display of the records and charges pending against the Somali pirates they are removing. It makes it harder to defend the trash.
EC
Soon to be former mayors. Their supporters will drop them for not doing enough against IEC and the real Americans will feel energized to support another candidate to clean up the area.
Just yesterday the chief of police said his officers will ‘intervene’ if they sense an ICE agent is using excessive force. At a minimum it will end in police and ICE pushing and shoving each other. But it could result in a shoot out.
Isn't that exactly where the left is driving everything? The 19th Century Democrats started the first civil war. What is old is new again.
Those illegal space alien Somali mutants will be easy to spot, with their triangle shaped heads, sunken eye sockets, and insect-like oral cavity.
And there are millions of them, tunneling bee-hive dwellings in Minnesota, to hide their nefarious activities. Kick them all out, no exceptions.
Ohio next?
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