Vice President J.D. Vance expressed his frustration at local and state officials in Minnesota for their lack of assistance with ICE operations and for creating an environment for agitators.

VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: So, they told me a story about this manufacturing facility where an illegal immigrant was being arrested, and as these employees are going into the manufacturing facility, all of a sudden, an illegal immigrant shows up, they don’t know it’s an illegal immigrant, and then a bunch of ICE officers descend. Now these people just want to go to work, they want to go to work safely, and now all of a sudden there’s a major law enforcement operation happening right outside their place of business. Now from one perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader, or why an employee would say, well what’s going on? It’s a little scary no matter your position in life if a bunch of cop cars show up and they’re arresting somebody. Now the additional context is that we know that people online have been encouraging illegal immigrants that one way they can evade arrest is by showing up at a legitimate place of business, making it impossible for these guys to actually enforce our immigration laws. So while I can understand the perspective of somebody who doesn’t want to see an arrest happen at their place of work, I can also understand the perspective of our immigration enforcement officers who have to do their job and can’t allow a heckler’s veto over our immigration enforcement. And so much of what’s gone wrong is the failure to do that, and here’s the point. We can do a good job of enforcing our immigration laws without the chaos, but it actually requires the cooperation of state and local officials. If you look at blue cities and blue states, red cities and red states, you go to Austin, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee, you go to the state of Texas, obviously a very red state, or the state of Tennessee, a very red state, but you’ve got blue cities within those states, you do not have this level of chaos. The reason why things have gotten so out of hand is because of failure of cooperation between the state and local authorities and what these guys are trying to do. We have a ton of resources, a ton of ICE agents in this city right now that I would rather us not have. I’d love to send those guys home. They’re not even doing targeted immigration enforcement. They are trying to protect ICE officers who are doing immigration enforcement because when a crowd surrounds them and these guys call 911, the local officials, the local cops have been told to stand down. So we have people here who aren’t even doing immigration enforcement, they’re doing force protection so that if a rioter tries to ruin the life or assault an ICE officer, they’re actually protected. Now why doesn’t it make more sense for the local cops to get involved in that situation? Why not just have the mayor or the local officials tell the police officers, you know what, if an ICE officer is being assaulted by a far-left agitator, you are invited, you should actually help them. That’s what would work out in any normal situation and that’s what happens in nearly every jurisdiction, red or blue, in the United States of America. The reason it hasn’t happened here is because the local authorities have been told stand down, do not help ICE, promote the violence, promote the agitation, but don’t do anything to lower the temperature and lower the chaos. That’s a problem. Here’s another example of how the lack of cooperation between state and local officials makes it harder for us to do our job and turns up the temperature.

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