Jacob Frey: We Are Not Asking ICE Not To Do “ICE Things”
Mayor Jacob Frey addressed Minnesota’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security at a press conference on Monday.
MAYOR JACOB FREY: Thank you, Attorney General Ellison, for your leadership and your incredible team’s work around this issue. Thank you to Mayor Herr of St. Paul for your partnership. These are not normal times. And so the response that we are asking for from the judicial system and from the courts requires that we file suit at this particular moment. What we are seeing right now is not normal immigration enforcement. We are not asking ICE not to do ICE things. We are asking this federal government to stop the unconstitutional conduct that is invading our streets each and every day. You’ve seen the videos. At times there are as many as 50 agents arresting one person. The scale is wildly disproportionate and has nothing to do with keeping people safe. In Minneapolis, we’ve done work extensively with the federal government under multiple administrations to keep people in our city safe.
