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Enforcement specifically in Minneapolis is kind of a stupid waste of time, as there's not that significant an illegal immigrant population and it's more kneejerk responsiveness to a combination of the Somalis and the general vibe from major Minnesota figures such as Walz and Ilhan Omar.
On the other hand, the situation is showing the weakness of trying to do any sort of aggressive policing in the age of short-form video content as even the most compliant, disciplined and skilled police force ever are going to occasionally throw up incidents where they look oppressive from some angle if redacted sufficiently. The conditions that ICE is operating under with regards to 'random interlopers on all tasks actively interfering with police work with no particular expectation of punishment' are also incredibly rare for any sort of a police force to have to work under. I don't believe ICE are necessarily massively less trained and equipped than other legal forces in effectiveness terms, but 'you are trying to do your job in the face of the Armed Minneapolis Vehicular Vuvuzela Orchestra' is going to inherently increase the friction and likelihood of issues.
Doing anything at scale is going to produce edge-cases, especially something as messy and emotionally charged as this. Completely derailing the artifice of state every time something somewhat sad happens is what produces the massive scope drift and inefficiency that is slowly choking the Western world. The protestors even having the privilege of acting like this is reflective of the extraordinary liberal permissiveness of the USA by any real historical or world political standard.
Once again, Minnesota and New York are easily the two most adamant "sanctuary" states and that's why the focus is on them.
As I keep saying, the Feds don't need to enforce compliance on states that are already cooperating.
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It’s not about vibes or Somalis - it’s because a state can’t just say no to federal immigration laws.
You say it's not about Somalis but doesn't it seem a bit convenient that the epicenter of violence just so happens to be in the same city where a billion-dollar fraud ring with probable links to high-ranking state officials was just uncovered?.
There might be an independent causal factor.
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