Posted on 01/26/2026 7:01:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a briefing Monday afternoon to, in part, distill the latest on the Trump administration's plans to bring law and order to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the first official White House press briefing since Saturday's shooting of leftist protester Alex Pretti by a Customs and Border Patrol agent, and the weekend's events were clearly top of mind for everyone in the briefing room.
Leavitt spoke first of the administration's disgust for the efforts of Democrats and hard-left agitators to disrupt "the will of the people;" President Trump has spoken previously of his dismay at the vile treatment of federal immigration officers who are simply carrying out what he was elected to do. Leavitt blasted the left for its "deadly" defiance of those efforts.
She also laid out the path for restoring order in Minnesota, including the demand that elected officials in the state (i.e., Democrats) turn over illegal aliens and deploy local law enforcement to help federal officials in rounding up illegals still loose in the community.
.@POTUS spoke with Gov Walz directly this morning and he has outlined a clear & simple path to restoring law and order in Minnesota.
1. All Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons & jails to federal authorities, along… pic.twitter.com/328ryPiXXx— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 26, 2026
.@POTUS spoke with Gov Walz directly this morning and he has outlined a clear & simple path to restoring law and order in Minnesota.
1. All Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons & jails to federal authorities, along with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal histories for immediate deportation
2. State & local law enforcement must agree to turn over ALL illegal aliens who are arrested by local police
3. Local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes
Leavitt also urged Congress to pass immediate legislation to end sanctuary cities "once and for all," noting that American cities should be safe sanctuaries for "law abiding citizens only."
She also called on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) to "continue to do the right thing and work with President Trump to keep the American people safe." As RedState's Ward Clark reported, the president and Walz apparently had a productive call Monday morning, with the president saying the two were "on a similar wavelength."
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Another big development Monday, as reported by our own Bonchie, was the assignment of White House Border Czar Tom Homan to oversee federal immigration efforts in Minnesota, with direct report to President Trump. This, said Leavitt at her Monday briefing, was not a rebuke of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who oversees both ICE and CBP, noting Noem still enjoys the confidence of the president and is busy coordinating federal disaster response efforts in the wake of Winter Storm Fern.
Speaking of Tom Homan, Leavitt had a great clap back for a reporter who questioned Homan's new assignment. It turns out that Homan was the subject of a glowing 2016 Washington Post article that lauded his efforts to deport illegals and noted that Homan had received an award from President Obama for his service. And Karoline brough the receipts.
🚨BARACK OBAMA HONORED TOM HOMAN!
Washington Post headline from 2016L "Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants"
"It was former President Barack Hussein Obama who awarded a medal to Mr. Homan."
Same deportation policies, new Trump Derangement. pic.twitter.com/gPfBXORT37— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 26, 2026
In possibly the most important moment of her briefing, Leavitt reminded the media of the human cost of violent illegals being loose on the streets of American communities, saying that "the lives of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray" continue to matter to President Trump and remain "an utmost priority" for him.
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I hope the headline is wrong. If it’s the Obama playbook, get a new playbook.
Is that unreasonable?
2. State & local law enforcement must agree to turn over ALL illegal aliens who are arrested by local police
Is that unreasonable?
3. Local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes
Is that unreasonable?
Waiting for the leftists to explain how those three points are NAZI, fascist, Hitler ideas.
‘1. All Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons & jails to federal authorities, along with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal histories for immediate deportation
Is that unreasonable?
2. State & local law enforcement must agree to turn over ALL illegal aliens who are arrested by local police
Is that unreasonable?
3. Local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes
Is that unreasonable?’
Nope!
Take off the gloves, President Trump - and arrest Governor Tim Walz and his fellow commie rump swab, Mayor Jacob Frey. Both of those two commie stooges should be arrested for subversion and incitement of revolution, or whatever the legal term is called.
Send in the US military to put an immediate end to this commie insurgency. I don’t care if the military kills half the population of Minnesota to end this bullsh*t.
I’ve had to work in that sh*thole state several times, and I’ve yet to meet a Minnesotan who was not a retarded SOB. I don’t consider them Americans. I think the entire population of Minnesota is the product of inbreeding. They are all useless commie tools.
I thank you for affirming my thoughts ... but you might be crazy too! :D
Goodness! 47% voted for Trump.
I don’t care. I hold a white-hot hatred for Minnesotans. I absolutely despise those bastards. They are not Americans - they are communists to the core - it’s in their damned genes. The majority are of German descent, which explains why they are such godless a-holes.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke of the administration’s disgust
for the efforts of Democrats and hard-left agitators to disrupt “the will of the people.”
Leavitt blasted the left for its “deadly” defiance of those efforts.
She laid out the path for restoring order in Minnesota.......the demand that elected officials in the state (i.e., Democrats) turn over illegal aliens and deploy local law enforcement to help federal officials in rounding up illegals still running loose.
Ah.
I thought they were Scandinavian? Swedes and such.
Have you ever lived around or worked with Germans? I did - for six miserble effing years, I had to work with German engineers. They don’t laugh - they have no sense of humor. They don’t cry - I don’t even think thay have tear ducts!
It’s like they’ve been purged of all human emotions. They are the closest thing on Earth to a “Vulcan.” Except for one glaring difference - they get very agitated if you make a mistake in calculating anything. God forbid you should hold a different opinion to their own - they will damn near mentally scourge you for it. They are regimentally rigid beyond description - like damned robots.
They’re freaking cold calculating machines. They overthink everything down to the smallest detail. It’s enough to drive a normal man nuts. And every Minnesotan I’ve ever met or had to work with acted the same miserable way - it’s that German blood! The only time I have ever seen a German laugh, or act human, is when he’s drunk off his ass.
German, Scandinavian - It’s all the same genetics, as far as I am concerned.
OK.
FWIW, no, I’ve never been around Germans or been to Minnesota.
Sorry you had to experience that.
I had a German landlord for many years - “Helmut.” He was also my barber. He was a first generation immigrant to the U.S., a veterin who married an American woman and moved to the U.S.. Now, Helmut was a decent man, conservative in his beliefs - but he was rigid and regimental as hell. Somehow, amazingly, we got along. Of course, you don’t want to piss off a man who uses a straight razor to shave you!
eXpoSinG! these clowns means NOTHING because NOTHING will come of it! They will grow STRONGER, while CONservatives will grow weaker and lose the midterms and eventually the country.
BOOM! BOMBSHELL! all that shiite means NOTHING.
NEW: DOJ withdraws request for arrest warrants for Don Lemon, other protesters who disrupted church services in St. Paul, Minnesota after a federal judge refused to sign off. -New York Post
Done.
IF President Trump wants to get those blue state ‘sanctuary’ governors to get in line..
simply make the governor, police chiefs, and whatever applicable leader holding back local law enforcement from doing their job... accessories to whatever crime is committed by the illegals in their state.
if an illegal throws a brick at an ICE officer, the governor is now looking at accessory to assault and attempted murder.
do this and you better believe they’ll get in line QUICK
I think that should apply to certain judges. They should be arrested for conspiracy and violations of the color of the laws when their rulings and judgments actually aggravate the law breaking of the people the judges are looking to protect.
That might set dangerous precedents, but we aren’t living in normal times!
Surprise, most Americans, including our president, are of some German descent.
And Minnesota likely voted for Trump twice.
Except for well organized Somali vote, with many ghost voters.
Lots of great people in MN.
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