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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sunk to a new low on January 7th after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman who allegedly weaponized her vehicle to physically harm him and other federal law enforcement agents. Before the fatal shooting, this woman, Renee Good, was committing bad acts against ICE agents who were conducting a high-risk law enforcement operation. She blocked an ICE vehicle, refused to obey a lawful order to get out of her car, and then accelerated forward in what the ICE agent who fired the fatal shot considered to be an attempt to run him over. This agent was injured after appearing to have been hit by the car.
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem said that the ICE agent who killed the female driver was “fearing for his life” and acting in the interest of “his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public” when he fired three “defensive shots.” Mayor Frey called this claim of self-defense “bullsh-t” during his news conference following the shooting.
A full investigation is underway to determine what actually happened leading up to the shooting. However, without knowing all the facts, Mayor Frey launched into an expletive-filled tirade aimed at ICE and the Trump administration.
“Get the f— out of Minneapolis,” Mayor Frey said during his news conference. “We do not want you here.”
Note that Mayor Frey is not telling the illegal immigrants whom he has allowed to roam the streets of Minneapolis to get out of his city. On the contrary, he wants them to stay in Minneapolis, which he has described in the past as “a safe haven for undocumented immigrants.”
Sanctuary city protection for illegal immigrants has gone too far and has jeopardized the lives of innocent Americans. While states and cities do not have an affirmative duty to actively assist federal immigration law agents in enforcing U.S. immigration laws, they cannot cross the line by impeding federal law enforcement or encouraging others to do so. Moreover, once an illegal immigrant charged with committing a violent crime is already in local or state police custody, a handover to ICE upon request should be required. Deliberately ignoring an ICE detainer request and releasing the illegal immigrant onto the streets risks the safety of the ICE agents trying to apprehend the illegal immigrant and the safety of the public at large.
Mayor Frey’s outburst on January 7th occurred just one day after ICE officers arrested a dangerous illegal immigrant released by the Biden administration. This fugitive who is wanted for murder in Ecuador and sexual assault in Connecticut is Tomas Espin Tapia, who also has previous convictions in Ecuador for robbery and extortion. Tapia was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on February 28, 2025 after he failed to show up for his immigration hearing.
During his January 7th news conference, Mayor Frey declared, “We stand by our immigrant and refugee communities – know that you have our full support.” He made no distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, much less exclude violent criminal illegal immigrants from his “full support.”
This is just the latest of Mayor Frey’s statements encouraging illegal immigrants to stay in his city while using incendiary rhetoric to denounce ICE, right along with his comrade Governor Tim Walz who called ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.”
“I want to speak to the undocumented,” Mayor Frey said last year. “We love you; we care about you and the city of Minneapolis, we will stand up for you and we will do anything in our power to help.”
Sorry, Mayor Frey. ICE is not going anywhere. They will continue to do their job and enforce the immigration laws in place, showing no “love” for the criminal illegal immigrants whom you have been sheltering.
On January 5th alone, federal law enforcement agents arrested more than one hundred fifty of the “worst of the worst” illegal immigrants in Minneapolis. Here are just a few of them whom DHS has listed:
Mong Cheng, a criminal illegal immigrant from Laos, convicted of homicide, vehicle theft, possession of stolen property, and assault, and with a previous arrest for arson.
Tong Xiong, a criminal illegal immigrant from Laos, convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor, sexual assault, kidnapping, assault, armed robbery, robbery, and probation violation.
Hoang Xuan Nguyen, a criminal immigrant from Vietnam convicted of rape, second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim under 13, and driving under the influence of liquor.
Blayon Lawrence Yuoh, a criminal illegal immigrant from Liberia, convicted of rape, robbery, sexual assault, larceny, obstructing police, assault, robbery, and possession of stolen property.
Julio Desiderio Naula-Jara, a criminal illegal immigrant from Ecuador, convicted of sexual assault, domestic violence, assault, driving under the influence, and probation violation.
Carmen Mireya Alarcon Rivera, a criminal illegal immigrant from Ecuador convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine on board a vessel and international conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Jozias Natanael Carmona-Pena, a criminal illegal immigrant from El Salvador, charged with lewd acts with a minor.
ICE’s current enforcement operation in Minneapolis is picking up where it left off last year. In the first week of December 2025, for example, ICE apprehended a previously deported criminal illegal immigrant from Venezuela and Tren de Aragua gang member who was convicted of theft. He was among a group of the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal immigrants that ICE took off the streets.
During his January 7th remarks, Mayor Frey tried to deflect blame for the chaos in his city from himself and Governor Walz where it belongs. “People are being hurt,” he said, “and now somebody is dead.” Addressing ICE, Frey charged, “That’s on you.”
No, what happened is on the mayor himself, Governor Walz, and other leftwing progressive politicians in Minnesota, whose incendiary rhetoric against federal law enforcement personnel doing their job has put fuel on the fire and incited riots.
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association felt compelled to issue a statement on January 7th warning that “Irresponsible, reckless rhetoric from political leaders attacking law enforcement has real & dangerous consequences for officers on the street. When officers are vilified, demonized, or used as political props, it fuels hostility, emboldens bad actors, and puts lives directly at risk.”
It is such reckless rhetoric that has emboldened “bad actors” and fueled their hostility, resulting in Ms. Good’s case in her untimely death. Exploiting this tragedy as Mayor Frey and his likeminded leftwing progressives are doing is beyond reprehensible.
Frey should be arrested and charged with Harboring the Enemy and giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy and Harboring a Fugitive and get Life in Prison without Parole and No Plea Bargains here isa Enemy right in America and as long as he gives shelter toa Fugitive from the Law he is a Enemy of the American People
Thanks for the good article, this explains the situation here very well. The ‘crats up here sure are among the nastiest, most vile and reprehensible people in this country. Both Walz and Frey are nuts. I have a real concern, that if they are not removed they will start causing a big stink, trying to be heroes. They are both psycho lunatics and should be dealt with accordingly and arrested. Walz is now threatening a civil war.
Jacob Frey wins “soy boy of the week”
If we are lucky we will ghetto see Lacob shaking hands with Bubba, his new room mate in the Minnesota State pen.
Typo alerts: 1)”get to”, not ghetto 2) Jacob, not Lacob
Frey’s rant was pure political theatre, IMO. Frey, Walz and the other socialists/communists across the country are ruthless in their determination to transform their cities (communities in comrade speak) and states, run over anyone who gets in their way, and bring the country to its knees.
The battle lines are being drawn folks. Prepare.
I left MN ~25 years ago. It was crazy and uber liberal then. Much worse now. NO longer any reason to visit… or buy anything based in liberal states of America.
Funny how a “jewish” boy from Reston, Virginia ends up being the mayor of Minneapolis.
What’s really funny is how a muslim communist from Kenya ended up being president of the United States of America (twice!).
There is a difference between someone who is in the United States legally and someone who is in the United States illegally. Those who are not here legally are committing a criminal act and are breaking the laws of the United States by their presence.
The Governor of Minnesota and the Mayor of Minneapolis have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and uphold the laws of the United States. By declaring Minneapolis to be a “Sanctuary City” and not enforcing Federal immigration laws they are violating the law and their oaths of office. Even worse, they interfere with Federal officers who have to come to Minnesota to enforce Federal immigration laws because the state officers will not do their jobs and they encourage others to do the same.
You have to be a total idiot to interfere with an armed police officer doing his job and then disobey his order to get of your car. You can argue about whether the office had Probable Cause later. You can argue about the policy later. You don’t block a police vehicle with your vehicle, you don’t disobey an armed police officer and you don’t drive away from him after he tells you to get our out of your car. This disaster was totally predictable and totally the fault of the governor and mayor who refuse to enforce the law and the woman who thought she did not have to obey an armed officer.
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Pandering to the left to secure his place in the next election. His lack of professionalism is disgusting as he fans the flames among the sheep.
Mayor Frey is the absolute epitome of a liberal beta male. Frey cannot seem to give enough signals that he is trying to win the approval of the progressives., Mayor Frey is a genius at patronizing the illegals for political gain. Of course, he does not appear to be serious to the casual observer. Of course, he appears to be the great defender of the poor Somalis. His authenticity is suspect because he had a superficial outburst on national TV. Frey didn’t think that we would notice that his city is burning in the background.
Frey is a copy of the Newsome prototype for governance. They speak loudly and fake anger as their emotional investment in their downtrodden citizens. Both are failures at governing. Their constituents are paying a high price for their leader’s incompetence. Higher taxes because of lawsuits that exposed their incompetence. When people win a lawsuit because of the leader’s mistakes, the taxpayer pays the bill. George Floyds family won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit as a guilt payment for enforcing the law.
The next morning Joe, the father of three, took his lunch bucket out of the refrigerator, drove to work and punched in to the clock and began to pay the Floyd family with his hard-earned tax dollars. The father should be bringing home the money that he had worked hard for, but the Government is charging Joe for his part of the settlement for the Floyd family (that probably hadn’t seen George in years). for his share of the supporting his family,
The next morning Sue, a clerical worker, woke up, dressed the kids for school, made breakfast and gave them money for their school prom. Then Sue drove to work and began working to pay the governments share of the billions that Minnesota is funneling to Somali families because the governor was more concerned about illegals who are usurpers, than red-blooded Americans. Her taxes go to support the 80% of the Somali’s that are bilking the government because they don’t want to do what Sue and Joe are doing., working.
This is the tragic state of America today. Joe and Sue want to raise their families with good values, but their money has been stolen by their mayor or governor through taxation to pay for the mistakes of these governmental leaders. This is the result of these incompetent leaders.
That Mr Frey considered it appropriate to use swear words during his public address shows the kind of low grade person he is. A public servant should at least give the impression that he has a modicum of culture and knows how to conduct himself in front of his paymasters. You shall be known by what comes out of your mouth.
Frey is a criminal and the people of Minneapolis are accessories to his crimes if they keep him in office any longer.