n a powerful and necessary demonstration of restored law and order, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched targeted, armed raids across Minnesota, specifically aimed at arresting illegal Somali nationals who are the subjects of active federal warrants. This decisive action, a direct result of the policy directives from President Donald Trump’s administration, stands in stark contrast to the years of neglect and open-border advocacy that characterized the previous Biden presidency. While federal agents move professionally to apprehend criminals and protect American communities, the reaction from local Democrat officials in Minnesota has been nothing short of seditious, openly siding with lawbreakers against the rule of law.
The immediate response from Minneapolis’s failed leadership was not to support federal law enforcement or express relief that dangerous individuals were being removed from their streets. Instead, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara and Mayor Jacob Frey actively worked to undermine the operation and instill fear and resistance within the illegal immigrant community. In an astonishing press briefing, Chief O’Hara warned residents that the masked federal agents carrying out lawful arrests were “possibly kidnapping people,” and urged the city’s massive Somali enclave to dial 911 if they encounter law-enforcement activity they “don’t recognize.” He further instructed his own officers that, “If there is anything that is … a violation of someone’s human rights or civil rights, excessive force or anything like that, they absolutely have a duty to intervene as police officers.” This is a clear and dangerous directive for local police to potentially obstruct federal officers in the middle of executing their duties, a move that jeopardizes public safety and officer safety alike.
Mayor Jacob Frey, standing in solidarity with those who have broken the nation’s immigration laws, joined this condemnation and explicitly reaffirmed the city’s sanctuary city policy. He confirmed “that city policy forbids MPD cooperation with ICE on civil-immigration enforcement,” placing the radical ideology of open borders above the safety and security of the citizens he was elected to serve. This coordinated effort by Democrat officials to portray federal agents as kidnappers and to instruct residents to refuse cooperation is a blatant attempt to nullify federal law and create sanctuaries for criminality within the United States, a policy President Trump is decisively ending.
Contrary to the hysterical and false framing from local Democrats and their allies in the liberal media, reporting from The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt provides the crucial facts of the operation. According to her sources, “ICE agents captured several criminal illegal aliens during an operation in Somali-land Minnesota on Saturday.” The targets were not random individuals, but specific criminals apprehended “on a warrants.” The reporting details that a “male subject allegedly assaulted officers but was successfully apprehended,” and that a “previously deported female subject fled into a house, which ultimately resulted in her apprehension and several collateral arrests.” This is the reality that Democrats like Frey and O’Hara are desperate to obscure: these are enforcement actions against specific, wanted individuals, including those who assault officers and those who have already been deported, proving the absolute necessity of President Trump’s robust immigration enforcement.
Exclusive — ICE agents captured several criminal illegal aliens during an operation in Somali-land Minnesota on Saturday.
Democrat politicians are claiming ICE “kidnapped” innocent members of the community.
Sources tell me the targets were apprehended on a warrants. A male… pic.twitter.com/mIfumgAzDG
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) December 7, 2025
The liberal media, taking its cue from these Democrat politicians, has rushed to label these lawful arrests as raids targeting an entire community, rather than what they are: precise actions to remove dangerous fugitives. This is the same media that for years downplayed the crime and social costs associated with illegal immigration and sanctuary cities, and now has the audacity to feign concern while actively encouraging non-cooperation with federal law. Their narrative is a deliberate fraud designed to shield criminal aliens and attack the Trump administration for simply doing the job that the American people demanded when they elected him to restore sovereignty and security.