Trump declares war on Minnesota

[Yazata]

ICE doesn't just sweep people off the street, they are looking for particular people. The illegals that ICE targets are those with prior criminal charges or convictions, and those with existing deportation orders.

Certainly at some point all of those in the country illegally will have to be removed, but for now they have started with the worst of them.

The reason why several thousand ICE agents had to be surged into Minnesota is because of the street riots and the fact that the local and state police were ordered not to perform crowd control against the rioters. So ICE had to perform anti-riot policing themselves, which isn't their job and for which they weren't really trained. I personally think that they did a good job, despite the deaths of two activists. Those deaths could have been avoided had the local police not been commanded to surrender the streets to the mob and been allowed to do their jobs.

There's also the fact that the Minneapolis police department is only at something like 2/3'ds strength. Many of its officers have quit in the wake of the BLM riots, defund the police, and now this, all of which originated in their city with the willing support of local government. Now, unsurprisingly, the department is having difficulty recruiting new officers. No police officer worthy of the name wants to work there.

[Syne]

Yeah, the only illegals caught during targeted operations were those in the immediate vicinity of targeted criminals. If you're forced to expend the time and manpower to track them down in the community, especially when also requiring crowd control, you're going to sweep up any illegal you find in the process. These will then be verified and get deportation orders themselves.

[C C]

ICE doesn't just sweep people off the street, they are looking for particular people. The illegals that ICE targets are those with prior criminal charges or convictions, and those with existing deportation orders.

Certainly at some point all of those in the country illegally will have to be removed, but for now they have started with the worst of them.

The reason why several thousand ICE agents had to be surged into Minnesota is because of the street riots and the fact that the local and state police were ordered not to perform crowd control against the rioters. So ICE had to perform anti-riot policing themselves, which isn't their job and for which they weren't really trained. I personally think that they did a good job, despite the deaths of two activists. Those deaths could have been avoided had the local police not been commanded to surrender the streets to the mob and been allowed to do their jobs.

There's also the fact that the Minneapolis police department is only at something like 2/3'ds strength. Many of its officers have quit in the wake of the BLM riots, defund the police, and now this, all of which originated in their city with the willing support of local government. Now, unsurprisingly, the department is having difficulty recruiting new officers. No police officer worthy of the name wants to work there.

As ICE arrests increased, a higher portion had no U.S. criminal record
https://www.factcheck.org/2026/01/as-ice...al-record/

INTRO: While the Trump administration insists that it is targeting the “worst of the worst” in its immigration enforcement, it has not provided information to substantiate that, and the data that is available suggests the claim has become less accurate over time.

“The Trump administration has specifically targeted the worst of the worst,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press conference in July. “The individuals that we are going after are those that are violent criminals, those that are breaking our laws and those that have final removal orders.”

While the number of monthly Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests has risen steadily over the first year of Trump’s second term, the percentage of those arrested who have no criminal convictions or pending charges has also gone up.

Our analysis of ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found a doubling over time of the percentage without criminal records, meaning neither convictions nor charges. In Trump’s first three months in office, 21.9% of those arrested had no criminal record. The percentage rose to 34.2% in Trump’s second three months, and then to 40.5% in the three months ending in mid-October.

In January, nearly 43% of those detained had no convictions or charges, according to publicly available ICE data.

Meanwhile, the percentage of those arrested by ICE who have criminal convictions — not merely pending charges — fell from 44.7% in Trump’s first three months to 31.8% in the three months ending in mid-October.

Trump administration officials claim most of those without charges in the U.S. have convictions or pending charges in their home country, but DHS has provided no data to back that up.

Moreover, while the administration has long said it is targeting the “worst of the worst” criminals, only a small fraction of those detained by ICE have been convicted of the type of violent felony offenses often cited by the administration, according to an analysis of leaked ICE data by the libertarian Cato Institute...
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FactCheck background: Owned by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, founded by Walter and Leonore Annenberg. The Annenberg Foundation that funds APPC sounds heavily preoccupied with humanitarian interests. Even if still alive, an old-time Republican couple like that would not have cottoned to current-day populism. Walter was driven by a guilt-based need to repair the family reputation, and the organizations he founded were designed to facilitate that by supporting the political interests of the do-gooder sphere: "Annenberg was greatly affected by the tax evasion charges and other scandals involving his father in the 1930s. A significant part of his adult life was dedicated to rehabilitating the family's name through philanthropy and public service."

[Syne]

Why would we ignore pending charges of people here illegally? They could have fled their country to evade prosecution. Hence the "criminal record" stats are disingenuous.

But yes, when forced to take on more high-risk operations, you are going to sweep up more people in the process.

[confused2]

The US does seem to be somewhat divided between those who accept new truth as the way forward and those who don't. I suspect <*unsure*> some of the active fronts that appear are more about truth and new truth than the apparent issue.

[Syne]

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Good riddance. Need a ride to the airport?