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https://www.newsweek.com/video-appears-to-show-new-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis-11411971
Ice shooting round 2 has kicked off. Numerous rumors already flying around but will be a bit before we have facts I imagine.
Tim Walz:
The left seems to be running a massive hecklers veto. After GF, the right can’t do it again. It’s only going to get worse
If the shooting of Charlie Kirk is this generation's Charles Sumner, Minneapolis is turning into this generation's Kansas territory.
If I had a dime for every time affluent white Democrats tried to kick-off a Civil War over whether they should be allowed to exploit a racial underclass I would have two dimes. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
Oh come on. Why is Minneapolis now become the center of ICE operations? The whole thing is getting so heated because everything was done in bad faith from the beginning. I really don't think ICE on the corners in Minnesota is the result of a sober cost benefit analysis of how to deport the most illegals. It was designed to provoke tensions and it did. People don't like it when armed outsiders show up in their home and end up shooting. （justifiably or not) locals. Renee good was a lot closer to the average resident of Minneapolis then an ICE agent is. This kind of nakedly tribal provocation was always going to lead to bad blood.
ICE is in Minneapolis for the same reason federal troops were deployed to Arkansas and Alabama back when segregation was the hot-button issue of the day.
The City and State Leadership have openly broadcast their intent to not only not enforce but actively defy federal immigration law, and this is happening in the context of what appears to be rampant fraud and abuse of federal programs.
In short, the feds don't need to enforce the law on states that are already cooperating.
The difference is that Arkansas and Alabama were two of the more adamant segregationist states. Minnesota is not exactly a hotbed of illegal immigration.
That's not a difference, it is a similarity. Minnesota and New York are two of the more adamant "sanctuary" states and that's why ICE's attention is on them and not states like Texas.
As I keep saying, the Feds don't need to enforce compliance on states that are already cooperating.
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