U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has called on Minnesota authorities to transfer detained undocumented immigrants to federal custody. The request comes as ICE seeks to centralize immigration enforcement and ensure compliance with federal law regarding individuals held for deportation or other immigration proceedings.
ICE officials said that transferring detainees to federal custody is part of routine enforcement procedures and is intended to streamline the processing of individuals under federal immigration jurisdiction. The agency emphasized that the action is consistent with legal and regulatory frameworks governing immigration enforcement in the United States.
Minnesota state authorities have not immediately confirmed whether they will comply with the request. The situation highlights ongoing coordination challenges between federal and state authorities regarding immigration enforcement and the handling of detained individuals.
The move comes amid ongoing national debate over immigration policies, enforcement practices, and the balance of power between state and federal governments in managing undocumented populations. ICE says that federal oversight ensures that individuals are processed according to federal law and standards.
00:00Our operations are lawful, they're targeted, and they're focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community.
00:15They are not random, and they are not political.
00:20They are about removing criminals who are actively harming Minneapolis neighborhoods.
00:26This is what public safety looks like.
00:30When the law is enforced consistently and professionally, we will continue enforcing the law.
00:37We will continue making arrests, and we will continue working to keep Minneapolis safe.
00:43The mission continues at the border and in the interior because that effective enforcement depends on both occurring at the same time.
00:56Let's make America safe again. Honor first.
00:58So the officer that was involved in the shooting two weeks ago now, he's recovering. He's at home recovering.
01:07Is he on administrative leave, or is he still involved in the operation?
01:10Right now, he's at home recovering.
01:12Over the weekend and through yesterday's holiday, ICE arrested 113 illegal aliens in Minnesota.
01:20ICE currently has more than 1,360 immigration detainers on illegal aliens in Minnesota jails and prisons, and we are calling on Governor Walz and Mayor Frye to turn these criminal illegal aliens directly over to ICE to keep Minnesota residents in our community safe.
01:39Don't fall victim.
01:41Don't fall victim. Don't fall victim to that heated rhetoric and those lies that are often spouted by, say, a Mayor Frye.
01:49Mayor Frye actually told his police force to fight federal agents in the city, and you should have even seen the look on O'Brien's face.
01:58Chief O'Brien, his eyebrows actually raised at that one.
02:02So don't fall victim to that.
02:04At a press conference today, we heard from several local police chiefs who said that they support ICE, but that certain ICE tactics are making their jobs keeping their own community safe that much harder.
02:14What's your response?
02:14I would say that those tactics are born of necessity.
02:20What we do is legal, ethical, and moral.
02:22Everything we do every day is legal, ethical, moral, well-grounded in law.
02:27So I would impugn upon those police chiefs and anyone else, elected representatives, and you have to remember, many of these police chiefs do work for the Mayor Frye's of the world, that turn over those illegal aliens.
02:41I think where a lot of the criticism comes in is within the tactics that you see ICE and others engaging in, that it's ordinary citizens who are not sex offenders or rapists getting swept up in.
02:53So what do you say to that?
02:55Sure.
02:56Where you're talking about these ordinary citizens, ma and pa America, that get swept up in what I see.
03:03I'm out on the streets just as Marcos Charles here is.
03:07We're on the streets with our troops almost every day.
03:11And what we see when folks get swept up, as you say, oftentimes it's those agitators, those rioters, and now I call them anarchists, that it actually calls ma and pa America to sometimes be near, at, or involved in a very tense situation when they shouldn't even be.
03:30There's no need for that violence that we see against law enforcement.
03:36Can you talk about the Hmong man that you detained this past weekend?
03:41And I say, for a moment from that, for one of these, thank you.
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