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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) on Wednesday said he does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while criticizing how the agency is operated under the Trump administration.

Frey was asked about his position during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” with co-host Griff Jenkins on Fox News. Tensions have risen in Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, during an operation. Her death inside her SUV has led to massive protests across the Twin Cities and across the country.

“I do not support abolishing ICE,” Frey said. “However, I absolutely oppose the way this administration is conducting themselves with ICE. Look, there are a number of entities presently, agencies —”

Jenkins cut him off and asked if Minnesota’s lawsuit against the Trump administration was about “stopping ICE right now.”

“No, you should read the lawsuit,” Frey said.

“The lawsuit says that, ‘Hey, you know — ICE doing ICE stuff is not what we’re talking about right now.’ Again, we’ve had ICE in our city before, we’ve had ICE in our state before. It is the fact that, look, right now, there are, there’s about 3,000 federal ICE agents in our city between ICE and Border Patrol. You know how many police officers that we have? Six-hundred. The kind of duress that our city is experiencing because of this is magnified.”

Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) on Tuesday announced that the state was suing the Trump administration for its ICE deployment in the Gopher State. Ellison argued on Tuesday that ICE “agents have no good reason to be here,” listing Good’s name as a reason why ICE did not need to be in his state.

The lawsuit asks a judge to declare the surge of ICE officers into Minnesota unlawful and block its implementation. It also argues that the administration is infringing on Minnesotans’ rights under the First and 10th Amendments.

Frey sent out a message to ICE hours after Good’s death last week, telling the federal agency to “get the f— out of Minneapolis.”

A new Economist/YouGov poll released less than a week after Good’s death found that 46 percent of those polled said they support abolishing ICE, with 43 percent saying they are against abolishing the agency. The poll found that 35 percent strongly support eliminating ICE, with 10 percent saying they somewhat support getting rid of ICE.

ICE became the federal government’s most-funded law enforcement agency with the passage of President Trump’s Republican-backed tax and budget bill signed last July.

Called the “one big, beautiful bill” by the president, the law allocated $45 billion for new detention centers and nearly $30 billion for hiring personnel and transportation costs, with enough funding to detain families through September 2029, according to the American Immigration Council.

  • nasezero [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    At some point, these people need to understand that the Democrats are just as much their enemy as ICE. And they’re probably a lot easier (for now) to protest and intimidate. Democrats should not feel safe saying this kind of shit, if they’re going to say anything at all.

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      Honestly feel like if we just let ICE go about doing what they’re inevitably going to do and just concentrate all our ire and activism against Democrats, we’d get more done.

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        I mostly agree, I think a diversity of tactics would work best here:

        • Keep doing patrols to be aware of where ICE is and frustrate them with crowds with whistles when possible.
          • Most of these networks are autonomous anyways, composed of people patrolling their immediate neighborhoods, so any messaging needs to start with “yes continue patrols with whistles if you feel safe to do so, but also…” and lead these people into other steps.
        • Focus mass protests against the Dems. Educate people on how and why the Dems will always be ineffective. Then direct protests against their offices during the day, and their homes at night. Do not let them live in peace.

        Make the clear, simple, and popular demand of having the cops oppose and arrest ICE. We know this will never happen, but I think the immediate result we’d see from this is more active aggression from local and state police (and the NG, when they’re finally deployed), which is needed to force the contradiction of who the police/military really serve to become undeniable to all but the most brainwormed libs. But if this is going to escalate no matter what, which I believe it will, then it’s critical to get people to face reality and organize beyond their neighborhood patrols sooner than later.

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    Frey was asked about his position during an appearance on “Fox & Friends”…

    That made me laugh.

    Frey sent out a message to ICE hours after Good’s death last week, telling the federal agency to “get the f— out of Minneapolis.”

    All this fucking triangulation. I wonder what his ultimate goals are. Maybe he hopes to eventually become governor or a senator?

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Of course democrats support it, icetapo was expanded during Obungler’s term and continuing to present day. The fact that good number of Americans are this dense really is astounding.