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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at kare11.com ...
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They've been fairly open about what and who and I think we'll see some high-level pressers to tamp down the BS. I still believe we are a nation of laws, not men. The left thinks otherwise. Sucks to be them. I also voted for this.
Good...
...clean that shit hole out completely...
That sums up Somali,,,The Intl. Red Cross wouldn’t go into Somalia because of its violence.
What measures have been taken to protect and support ICE Agents if the Minneapolis Police—or anyone else—should interfere with arrests?
Deport them all and let God sort it out.
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