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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.
Fuck ICE! I also feel - and I believe this very strongly - ICE needs more money so their gestapo can get better training.