Color me skeptical of the reasons given. 
Immigration-Enforcement Surge in Minnesota Ends
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Administration to End Immigration-Enforcement Surge in Minnesota
Tom Homan, who was dispatched to the state last month to de-escalate tensions, said the Trump administration achieved its public-safety goals, making more than 4,000 arrests in the state. Roughly 3,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents have operated in the state in what the Trump administration dubbed Operation Metro Surge.
“In the next week, we are going to deploy those officers here on detail back to their home stations or other areas of the country where they are needed,” Homan said at a news conference, while pledging to continue to arrest people living illegally in the U.S., one of Trump’s biggest policy priorities.
“That’s what the American people voted for,” he said.
Homan’s announcement came after a public outcry over the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37 years old, in confrontations with immigration agents. The decision to wind down the operation marks a pivotal moment in the national debate over immigration policy, with many Americans favoring Trump’s push to deport people in the U.S. illegally but recoiling at the increasingly chaotic scenes in Minneapolis.
Federal officials say enforcement agents were initially sent to Minnesota to find immigrants committing crimes after a sprawling welfare-fraud scandal involving dozens of state residents of Somali descent gained national attention.
Tensions rose after federal agents fatally shot Good and Pretti, with each altercation captured on video. Senior Trump administration officials labeled Good and Pretti domestic terrorists, claims that drew derision from Democrats and some Republicans. Protests intensified in the streets of Minneapolis despite subzero temperatures.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Walz, both Democrats, had urged the federal immigration authorities to leave the state to avoid inflaming tensions even more. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, the public face of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, was removed from Minnesota after Pretti’s death and replaced with Homan.
The border czar said federal immigration authorities have improved coordination in recent weeks with state and local officials, including Walz and Frey. “As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said.
Walz disputed that, saying the state is addressing immigration “exactly the same” way as before the surge. He said immigrant owners of small businesses suffered especially as a result of federal enforcement efforts because of lost business from workers and customers staying home out of fear.
“The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here,” Walz said.
Frey, who called for ICE to “get the f— out of Minneapolis” after Good’s death, declared victory following the news of the enforcement operation’s end.
“These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that it’s not just about resistance—standing with our neighbors is deeply American,” Frey said.
Not What People Voted For
Let’s start with the obvious lie.
People did not vote for Gestapo goons to wreak havoc. Polls undoubtedly show that.
Success?
It took 3,000 Gestapo agents two months to arrest 4,000 people.
Among other disturbing things, factor in two US citizens murdered, citizens illegally detained, homes and businesses busted in with no warrants, trying to get 5-year-olds deported, and a massive public outcry.
Labeling this a “success” takes a lot of gall. But racists will do just that.
Why Leave Now?
- The administration backed down in the face of public outcry
- A publicity stunt because nothing really changed
- A ploy to get more support for Homeland Security funding
Take you pick from those. But as long as Kristi Noem (the Secretary of Homeland Security) and racist Steve Miller are running things, assume all backdowns are temporary lies.
I will comment on point three separately. But the Homeland Security funding bill is now stalled in the Senate.
I caution about fake de-escalations to get Homeland Security funding. It’s better to have no funding than Gestapo racists in charge.
Unfortunately, the Gestapo was funded separately, but blockage of a Homeland Security funding package is the only way to apply pressure to this administration.
The Gestapo Tactics Continue
A Change In Tone?
I will concede there is a legitimate change in tone if and when Trump announces
1) No illegal searches
2) No racist profiling
3) Prosecution of ICE Murders
4) A change in plan to only look for those with criminal records
5) Three months from now points 1, 2,and 4 are still working
Top Administration Priorities
The three top administration priorities are protection of pedophiles, deportations at all costs, and an illegal crackdown on anyone who disagree with Trump (on anything).
Support for Trump has cratered. It’s no wonder. The public did not vote for the Gestapo, although racists and economic illiterates did.
Related Posts
January 9, 2026: No, ICE Is Nothing Like the Gestapo, Except When It Is
Some readers objected to my use of the word Gestapo to describe ICE. Let’s investigate.
January 26, 2026: The Anatomy of a Murder by ICE, and Team Trump’s Defense of It
Here’s a timeline of the murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
January 28, 2026: Noem Invokes the Nuremberg Defense, Blames Trump and Stephen Miller
Well, this is a fun development.
January 29, 2026: Trump’s Immigration Approval Drops to Record Low -34 With Latinos
You reap what you sow.
Polls now back my posts. The midterms cannot come too soon.
January 29, 2026: Ice Agents Tackle Mother Holding Her 4-Year-Old. Is this De-Escalation?
Trump is a liar. He does not want to de-escalate. He wants people to believe he is.
February 1, 2026: Dear Border Czar Homan, Care to Explain Your Ice De-Escalation Lies?
It took just one day to see the truth.
February 6, 2026: Trump Posts, Then Deletes Video Depicting Obamas as Apes. Too Late!
The White House initially defended this. Trump now blames assistants.
Note: Trump now admits he did it.
Mr. Shedlock
How would you get rid of the illegals?
If we don’t get rid of them then we should get rid of the laws we are not enforcing.
Thomas Massie is not suicidal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/1r43jl8/thomas_massie_i_am_not_suicidal/
Probably third shooting of the guy in the leg while achieving most of their goals. Minimize more riots.
CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/2-ice-agents-lied-under-oath-in-north-minneapolis-shooting-investigation-agency-says/
Is the extreme # of thumbs up and thumbs down on some of the comments below a result of foreign bot activity to promote the aura of American division? I see a majority American populace coalescing to a reasonable position desiring border security, wanting reasonable immigration policies, eliminating grift and graft from both left and right leaning politicians, and wanting those compromised particular politicians held fully accountable for infraction of laws based on the constitution and passed in an earlier era of bipartisanship.
JCH BELOW IS CORRECT. the first major battle, the siege of st paul is taking a breather. perhaps the red hat ICE pederasts come back………or retreat to other cities to lay siege. it’s a shame. When brothers fight brothers, and pederasts fight pederasts…………..it’s all so sad and unnecessary. Better to actually just round up and try the diddlers and put them on trial. Not a shot in hell that is happening in PAX PEDERAST
I will believe it when I see it and which city gets the full ice invasion next? San Diego is rumored and the election interference by the regime is next up and on the way to urban areas that vote for democrats
100%. FBI agents in blue city voting precincts. it’s actually a good thing. will hasten the 50 state solution and our crumbling empire of federales……..world wide war mongering. 2029 will be like USSR in 1991
Antifa won the Siege of St Paul: an attack on Christianity.
American people voted to arrest PAEDO CRIMINALS.
Only because they thought it would be Bill and Hillary. Imagine their disappointment.
For the people most upset about this…. you would agree that we should not have open borders, right? Wait… let me guess. It’s not Biden’s fault or congress’ fault for not doing their jobs, right?
I’m a lower l libertarian, and even my cold, jaded heart knows borders matter as do immigration policies.
Also, it’s a good time to revisit the idea of cities and states’ sanctuary policies contradicting federal law. Nah, that would mean confronting bad ideas and creating better ones. Much too hard. It’s easier to fundraise off of whatever nonsense passes for red meat these days and blaming everyone but the man in the mirror.
Sigh….
People say they want secure borders yet it never happens.
People say they don’t want socialism yet it keeps growing year after year.
People say they don’t want big government yet it grows larger and larger.
People say they don’t want gun violence yet it grows every year.
People say many things and if they truly believed them they would force action. The fact that it never happens should clue you in about what people really want whether you like it or not.
Huh, seems as though you’re saying people like me, who think we should have control over immigration are different from people like you who don’t want that. Maybe I misunderstood what you typed.
If illegal border crossings are down significantly from where they were with celery stick, we all are better off.
You don’t have to like orange man bad to see that some of his policies are better.
So when the next president is a democrat does that mean people no longer want secure borders? My point was that if people wanted a secure border they would continuously vote for Trump-like candidates but we both know that’s not the case right?
If border security was so important in 2016 then why did Biden win in 2020? Why are repubs so terrified of dems winning the midterms if the “people” want secure borders? You are here telling us that if democrats get elected we’ll have open borders again.
Follow the logic yet or do I need to get more remedial for you?
No, I’m here telling you that the last democrat that won wiped his saggy behind on immigration law and border enforcement, and that is one significant cause of what we’re seeing in Minneapolis.
Don’t like ICE doing this? Elect better democrats. Simple as that.
Try to focus for once. Just try.
I’m focused on my exit strategy. Perhaps you should focus on yours out of california since you hate democrats and they will be there forever. lol.
The plan is in place. I have a few years before I can execute.
Did you know that people move? That bad ideas are mobile? You’re a good example. You’re taking your bad ideas and spreading them.
As is starting to get more and more revealed. It would appear the point was to load up ballot boxes, suppress wages, and milk federal social programs. Feds be damned.
Or I should say Republicans be damned, because the Democrats drank deeply from the cool-aid bowl. The rising crime of such “Sanctuary Cities” shows that it was never about actually providing sanctuary.
I’m not one to get partisan, but man, the Democrats really pushed hard to wreck the place.
It’s no surprise that sanctuary cities also happen to be run by morons. High crime, high tax, high homelessness, poor public schools.
The Texas border had been wide open since long before the Alamo. Every big city in Texas has neighborhoods where illegals were openly welcomed by Texans. They cut out sections of the city where illegals could live: largely out of sight. They were especially welcomed by Texas businessmen and Texas politicians. Because they provided a gigantic economic benefit to the state. In the 1980s every single house on my block in Dallas had a Mexican maid/nanny/both. Everybody knew that to be the case. The Canadian border still is wide open.
lived down in AZ and CA for 20 years………..i knew already living in NYC before, the borders have been wide open for 400 years. most idiots need to experience things like folks do, to comprehend it. FFS most borders on planet are wide open . a few small miles in world history for short periods of time. berlin wall. hardly lasted. many of my pals defected from USSR and for sure you could walk into the USSR and Russia today no problem. eastern russia/siberia……has had millions of chinese walk in past 35 years. to abondoned old soviet towns…….
I spy with my little eye an orange presidency going down in flames.
Here’s a tip for gamblers:
If you’re at a poker table & you notice Mark Carney is at your table,
go to another table.
Once Trump is gone so is Carney.
Carney only has one Ace up his sleeve and it has a big orange D on it.
Sure …
Trump is being outmaneuvered by Carney.
Trump’s whole tariff house of cards is about to collapse.
Carney was one of the few world leaders who didn’t give in to Trump’s nonsense & stood up to him.
I just wanted the borders closed, rules to be followed if you wanted in and the criminals thrown out. I had no idea it would go this far. The frustrating part is what happens after the borders are closed and then someone else gets into office and opens the floodgate again. Seems to be happening all over the world the elites are stirring up crap all over.
see operation wetback. short lived. the borders have been wide open for centuries. btw we did turn back many jew refugees in the troubles in europe. even made a ship turn around off off miami port……..or some other location. amazing how vile and stupid amerikans have a grip on history.
Yes, they have been brief periods where round ups occurred. But then the business community put an end to that nonsense.
Ya, there is a lot of very coordinated “Top Down” policies going on. All over the western world you see the same draconian laws popping up, almost verbatim.
One theory I heard is that it’s Klause Schwab pulling the ladder up behind him.
Or it could just be Elitist group think.
Never attribute to malice what can be more easily ascribe to incompetence.
The temperature is going into the 50s, Alex?
Sort of on-topic. This is 169% 24K pure solid comedy gold.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chaos-kristi-noem-homeland-security-f095ac95
You think that’s funny. Watch Trumps white supremacist nominee for State Dept. try to explain what “whiteness” is and the dimwitted hillbilly fails miserably.
4:17 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOxgys19ev4
Mish – should #2 above be “racial” profiling?
Good. ICE under Trump has been a fascist paramilitary group. thankfuly it look like much of the US is still not on board.
but as a Dem who wants stricter immigration reform, it’s hard to know what the right way to do it is. it’s easy to say, this is wrong, can’t separate families etc… but in a country with birthright citizenship, doesn’t it practically mean you can’t deport illegals that have had a kid here? you cant’ deport a citizen, and if you can’t separate kids and parents what do you do?
Immigration enforcement. You’re throwing people ut forcefully who have lives here and want to stay. it’s not a nice thing to do. it will never look good on TV even if they’re not violating the 4th amendment.
they key i think is strict, strong border control. key i not letting people in, turning back caravans, and most importantly getting rid of the present asylum rules. Now people come here, say the magic word asylum and most get released and given dates to come back.it takes years, enough time to have 2+ kids. 95% of the asylum claims are fake. then there are the visa overstayers, but maybe those are less problematic (students, H1B, etc…)
You laid out the situation succinctly. Those who disagree are presumably of the opinion that anyone who sneaks in should get to stay. They should try to get Congress to change the laws. My hunch is that more people are OK with deportations than polls show (although not the shootings). Homan can move onto other cities, keeping a lower profile without shootings. By the time the election rolls around, this issue will matter less to voters, though Dems will still take over the House. That’s usually how things go.
yeah. they’re not overtly of the opinion they should stay, but if that’s what it winds up being practically it doesn’t matter.
if you talk through the position of so many Dems, it’s yeah we need borders and to enforce the law. but don’t go into communities and traumatize them, don’t separate kids from parents, don’t do this don’t do that… well so you’re saying we can’t practically have any deportations especially in sanctuary cities where they can’t go to prisons. that said, ICE has gone so far it’s turned all except actual Nazis off. Wherever the line is, ICE is so far over it we don’t need the specific line.
it’s a deeply broken system where if people make it here, they get to stay. other countries seem to have it managed, probably because they don’t have a thousands-mile land border.
Geez Mish you’re sounding like an old woman yelling at the TV screen. Time to take a breather.
Ultimately I think the pull back is great. Minnesota wants their criminals frolicking freely in the streets. Let them have them. Enjoy.
In a couple of years they’ll be begging Trump to come back.
In the meantime, they should cut them off of all federal social programs because the state gov cant be trusted with the money.
You’re mixed up; It’s the young people who are angriest. In a couple years nobody will have ever been a Trump supporter.
I was thinking of adding “or a gen Zer in a brain rot death scroll.
I believe you are right but I think itll take more than a few years. Unforutnately the Marxist deconstructivist spiral we are stuck in may need to run its course.
It least in europe and canada. We’re pretty deep in the rabbit hole.
You’ve obviously never been to Minnesota, one of the very best states in the USA with some of the very best people. Lutherans who welcomed war refugees.
They will never want Trump back. Never.
I question the recency of your data.
But ultimately never say never. Change comes slowly then all at once.
The Epstein files are actually connected to Putin for whom Epstein was funded by. Basically it was a gigantic blackmail scheme that many powerful elites fell for
Bull. If Putin had such blackmail material, he would have used it a long time ago.
All evidence points to Israel.
Putin ate CO’s homework.
Epstein had to ask Mandelson for assistance to get a Russian visa. Funny that “Putin’s Master Spy” couldn’t get a Russian visa.
For that matter, Epstein gushed over Ukraine and the coup there, and tried failed to pitch his investment strategies to Russian oligarchs.
https://johnhelmer.net/the-five-surprises-breaking-on-the-war-fronts/
Here’s another example, from 1993, when Putin was a nobody:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/12/compromised-peace-oslo-accords-figure-deeply-linked-to-epstein-network
You spelled bee bee wrong
oh, so i’s not the Mossad then? thanks for clarifying.
It is temporary. They will come up with some other crackpot scheme next. Trump is a disaster.
I bet Kamala Harris would have fixed it by now.
The part where federal agents are murdering American Citizens?
I don’t think she would have let that happen to begin with.
And fuck off with your weak whataboutism bullshit. It just shows you and the other trump simps will defend anything he does. It’s battered wife syndrome.
She would have flung the border wide open, like it was when she was czar. They don’t consider that a problem. It’s their goal.
She didn’t have anything to say about that border. She was an order-follower.
She didn’t have much to say about anything but trump, and she nailed that, at least.
The choice was shit sandwich or septic tank scuba diving… and we just keep swimming deeper into the tank.
Republicans are rightfully panicking about the midterms. They’re running on murdering civilians in the street and protecting powerful men in the Epstein files, but for some reason the public isn’t responding well.
The second Minneapolis shooting (remember the non-lethal one that occurred shortly after the first homicide when an agent was defensively shooting while being beaten with a snow shovel and broom?) recently saw the charges dropped against the men arrested in the incident. Those men were not the intended target of the initial traffic stop that ended up in significant protest activity after shots were fired and saw an agent deploy a tear gas canister underneath an uninvolved civilian vehicle that contained minors.
The headlines detracted from the national outrage over the first killing, but unsurprisingly the narrative from DHS was false.
“…Brian Clark, an attorney representing Sosa-Celis, said the family is “overjoyed.”
“The charges against them were based on lies by an ICE agent who recklessly shot into their home through a closed door. They are so happy justice is being served by the government’s request to dismiss all charges with prejudice,” the statement said.
Clark called for the identity of the ICE agent involved to be released, as well as criminal charges.”
https://www.startribune.com/doj-moves-to-drop-charges-against-men-arrested-after-north-minneapolis-ice-shooting/601581378
Because the locals and the country as a whole didn’t like the overt heavy handed tactics being used. Of course the government could quietly go about rounding people up, but, they decided to make it a show of force and the nazi tactics backfired and were bad PR. But, from a Maga viewpoint, it’s probably considered a success because these tactics would tend to make possible immigrants and asylum seekers think twice before making the decision to come here.
100% correct. BINGO
Success?
$300 billion is being flushed down the toilet on this nonsense by a country $40 trillion in debt, a declining population and all sorts of other problems.
What comes around goes around though, just wait till medicare and social security are cut for the MAGA base and accelerates their poverty, illness and ultimately death.
You reap what you sow.
Obviously, you are a sane human being. But the insane inhuman beings measure success differently.
Social Security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes. Bringing in more suckers doesn’t fix the problem, long term. It just delays it.
Only Wall St. gets Socialism! The proles, let’em take Capitalism!
As I said, “from the MAGA viewpoint, it’s probably considered a success…”. Because of the reasons I said, but, probably more importantly, they are just racist douches, and that’s why he consider it a success!
This was never about the immigrants, this was about training up a private goon squad for President PedoPig.
Correct….coming soon to a polling place near you.
The only people who had to be “rounded up” were in the Corporate C-Suites.
There must be much more effective preliminary methods to combat illegal immigration that do not rely on armed forces. First, a reliable system for managing people’s identities. Second, the requirement to have one’s identity verified and to be in compliance with regulations in order to access many services such as banking, schooling for children, or even healthcare; in the latter case, healthcare can be provided in detention centers.
would anyone on this site like to wager a silver or gold coin, that after this little “operation wetback 2.0” is over, the borders will be wide open again. ike was a cunt. trump is a cunt. the amerikan people are cunts.
What retarded slum do you live in where you don’t need a driver’s license and social security number to even open a bank account? We already have all that stuff.
If Republicans really cared about this stuff they would go after the businesses that hire undocumented workers. But they don’t really care; it’s a dog whistle for their racist bottom feeding base.
You must be in favor of voter ID. Good to see. I’m all for prosecuting businesses who hire illegals. Hopefully the courts will stop hassling business owners over “disparate impact” when they scrutinize applicants who can barely speak English.
You must be a victim of fox news. Where do you live where you aren’t registered to vote by showing ID…
You need to be Donnie The Special to f..k up so bad that people hate even your most popular agenda topic. 5D chess kiss my a..
It would be nice to see a dollar amount attached to the “success”. Hotel rooms, per diems, wages, vehicles and equipment, all that camouflage gear (should have gone with Arctic coloring to blend in with the snow), cold-weather clothing, lawsuit settlement/ verdict payouts. The final cost per criminal detained and/or deported is probably high enough to get noticed by DOGE.
Meanwhile, excessive case loads and staff departures (partly due to actions by the administration) are disrupting legitimate prosecutions:
“The dismissal, a legal step that’s typically rare, was one of several recently filed in Minnesota’s federal court system. The Minnesota Star Tribune has identified six federal criminal cases tossed at the request of prosecutors as the U.S. Attorney’s Office grapples with over a dozen resignations and a soaring immigration caseload.
…
Among the cases are that of a man described by law enforcement as having ties to a known drug trafficking organization. Investigators in a criminal complaint said they identified him as a suspect after intercepting a package addressed to his apartment that contained 9.1 pounds of cocaine in September 2025.”
https://www.startribune.com/case-dismissals-hastened-plea-deals-follow-us-attorney-staffing-exodus-in-minnesota/601579371
And then there is the cost of intangibles like loss of 2 lives and numerous violations of rights, which you cannot quantify. All in all, the whole operation was by far a net loss. The Trump admin will be paying for this long after the November elections.
agree. however let’s be real. waging low level terrorism on the homeland is a rounding error compared to our overseas “campaigns” since 9.11.01. not to mention genocide joe’s 300 billion plus flushing of us taxpayers money down the ukraine sewer. don’t blame me and mine. we vote green or libertarian for decades. get a great deal of hate because of that, too. it’s a hateful empire.
We shouldn’t be blaming people who voted for this or that candidate. Voting doesn’t matter. If it did, they wouldn’t let us. Additionally, if a candidate said they would use Gestapo tactics to remove illegal aliens, only the fringe would vote for them. And at the end of the day, the blame lies with the politician, not the person who voted for them.
Probably high enough if offered to the immigrants they would just take the money and leave the US.
Classic hung around after the shooting to look tough now retreat and clam victory. While some other news is distracting the base.
Out with their tails between their legs.
A total disaster for Trump.
This fiasco and the Epstein fiasco hopefully will cost him the balance of power in November..
He should already be impeached but congressional republicans are too cowardly to take him on.
After what looked like cold-blooded murder of two harmless American citizens, this is supposed to be the end of the Minneapolis story? Let’s hope Minnesota state prosecutors and courts will try to uphold the rule of law.
Trump ran on a campaign promising mass deportations. I now hear a lot of conservatives who voted for Trump expressing displeasure with ICE, be its tactics, lack of training or lack of accountability.
But I cannot help but wonder how these voters expected or imagined mass deportations playing out. How do you realistically expel 10+ million people deeply integrated in the social and economic fabric of America without restoring to some overreaching, massive, paramilitary apparatus?
If you voted for Trump and his promise of deporting all illegals, but did not expect Gestapo like tactics and the breach of civil rights, then you lived in lala land and probably believe in healing crystals and magical spells too.
This is the ugly nasty thing that people exactly voted for. Ignorance is no excuse.
100% agree. of course the nazis in our land voted in the majority in all swing states for this. amazing how so many folks don’t admit we live in a hateful evil empire of warmongers. it’s too much a mindfuck.
You can’t let a problem like illegal immigration run wild for decades and then expect to clean it up in six months. To do it right and to do it legally and humanely would take at least 10 years of hard slogging at a huge cost.
“then you lived in lala land and probably believe in healing crystals and magical spells too.”
Most of them believe in a magical god that has just as much validity as the other stupid crap they believe in..
It would be really easy by comparison if the federal agencies hit businesses administratively. A stricter and federally mandated E-verify. SS needs to be involved because they have 10 hombres per social that would need to be reported to the IRS (with penlaties). But this would effect everyone including republican donors so it won’t happen.
Well said
– Color me skeptical of the reasons given. > OK
– Tom Homan, said the Trump administration achieved its public-safety goals. > Good so far (1) and a massive Win for “Public Safety”
– It took roughly 3,000 U.S. ICE and Border Patrol agents to Run the Operation Metro Surge. > Good so far (2) and against every blockade one could imagine, going against them, as Federal Agents simply doing there Jobs. Let’s just hope they don’t go so far as to become The UK as it currently stands…
– “In the next week, we are going to deploy those officers here to their home stations or other areas of the country where they are needed,” > Good so far (3) As it should be, where Needed.
– “That’s what the American people voted for,” he said. > Public Safety and also Via Deportation were & When Necessary. >> Good so far (4) and done quickly with Cooperation, as hoped, to allow this to occur in this manner.
– The border czar said federal immigration authorities have improved coordination in recent weeks with state and local officials, including Walz and Frey. > Good so far (5) and So Nice when They ALL Cooperate!
– Frey, who called for ICE to “get the f— out of Minneapolis” after Good’s death, declared victory following the news of the enforcement operation’s end. > Not always pleasant, but Good so far (6) Just Showing IT CAN WORK!
– “These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that it’s not just about resistance, but also standing with our neighbors is deeply American,” Frey said. > It would appear to me, that a reasonable solution was reached, and agreement on expectations moving forward. Things are Good & Agreeable by Both Sides, Good so far (7). I Pray The Country was watching and will listen and see the way to do so in the best manner possible for Safety and Security for ALL.
>>> I obviously see a reason to be skeptical, that it will stick, and I do see the aggression seeping in again, partly due to the Continued Rhetoric practically everywhere one looks. From Both Sides. That MUST Stop, I agree with you. To complain and/or Peacefully protest is Perfectly Expected and should be FINE!!! Keep it clean…
Thanks Stu for the reminder of just who are the idiots still supporting this inept gang of criminals. It’s easy to forget how truly gullible and slow many folks are.
They think progress just simply happens, but more of the same is what actually happens. Unless or until we pull together as a Nation, Exactly Like Minnesota & ICE Just Did, then we will keep arguing against each other for the same damn thing.
We all want, or hopefully want, Peace, Safety & Security. With that, along comes Prosperity. Look where things are heading in the right direction. We have Minnesota, DC, NYC (starting), etc. but look elsewhere like CA. ILL. Etc. For example, and you still find No Security or very little, No Peace, and definitely No Prosperity. Kind of shows AND tells you what’s working and what’s NOT working…
Trump isn’t a big picture guy or a details guy – he’s a narcissist. His scummy supporters liked seeing immigrants and liberals (by their definition anyone in Minnesota) get brutalized. He TACOd when he saw how bad it played to people outside of klan meetings and trailer parks.
We all know what’s going to happen. The dems will cave to some stupid token measures under an “agreement” with Trump which he will renege or ignore like all his trade deals at the whim of his many wet farts.
Then what comes next is ICE gestapo will piss off some ex-marine or army ranger who will administer his own justice on ICE with a high powered rifle at some point just like Rambo in First Blood. It’s happened before and will likely happen again.
Then Trump will be out of office, dems will take government and it’s deja vu all over again. Both sides will then have talking points to get morons to send in nickels and dimes to “save” the country. You know the country $40 trillion in debt, full of geezers suckling on the tit of the tax payer with AI technology that’s putting everyone out of work all while undergoing a demographic death spiral.
Sounds like a winning plan for the country. /s
But having said all that, this post still deserves a 3-Star Mishelin award! For truth and justice and the old and forgotten American way.
Got exit strategy?
ha ha ha. perhaps the CIA will dial 1 800 Lee Harvey Oswald, but it won’t change much. the people of amerika have been “voting” since 1898 for non stop world wide warfare. think about that for a few minutes. not since the romans has this been the case. the root cause is nihilism. but folks cannot process that democracy works perfectly. assholes elect themselves. hat tip plato’s republic.
Plato had it right. Unfortunately, most Americans can’t read. “Save our democracy” has become the catchphrase for the ignorant.
they can read and memorize the batting averages and other assorted sportsball or entertainment hooey. they are just nihilists and don’t really give a fuck, our empire is evil and has been bombing the living daylights out of the world for well over a century. it’s too much of a mindfuck to see reality.
– the people have been “voting” for non stop world wide warfare.
> Ukraine fits that to perfection.
>> You but these, and I will send these, and you gather these troops up, and I will send some doctors, and you some cash, and you some ammo, and do t forget the drones we ordered for them, er they ordered from us too.
I think what you’re missing this time around is that China seems to be getting ready to cut off the US from key strategic materials (rare earths, silver, etc). The US is trying to do the same with oil (e.g. Venezuela). Not sure where Russia lands on this but it’s looking like a Mexican standoff with everyone ready to pull the trigger.
De-globalization is happening and it looks like China is winning as it cuts it’s own deals with Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia.
The Senate which requires 60 votes to pass continued DHS funding will not pass funding without legislated ICE policy changes. Trumpists are counting on public outrage from collateral damage to be an effective political tool. This tactic too will be a ‘Bondi moment’ which will allow protracted focused news attention to be paid on the murder of US citizens, terrorism, brutality, et.al. by ICE. The regime has already lost populace; Trumpism is disintegrating … Wait for the composite equity market to collapse after four additional trading days.
Herbert Hoover never had this overt corrupt political baggage to carry during the early 30’s economic collapse. The midterms will be a Trumpist bloodbath.
Let’s start with the obvious lies.
The 5 year old wasn’t deported. His father has the option of the boy remaining in the US.
It wasn’t dozens of Somalis involved in the fraud but thousands. Hundreds were running the scheme and were assisted in the scam by thousands who knowingly had their kids as phantom users of these fake daycare dumps.
As for inflaming the problem that falls on Waltz, the mayor, the DNC and the dark money backers of the paid protestors and the useful idiots.
And the 2 dead useful idiots got the Darwin Award for not thinking. Driving a car into an armed man or getting into a scuffle when carrying a gun are high risk moves. Not domestic terrorists but not the actions of peaceful observers either.
Please put on your “I am a proud racist” hat.
But OK, Trump is trying to deport a 5-year old. Apologies for a typo.
I would ask you to apologize for being a bigot and a racist and for unrelated whataboutism regarding Somalis when I have discussed the fraud and reasons for it, but racists and bigots like you don’t apologize. They are proud of it.
Mike, I read you everyday but I’m surprised at your ad hominem attack on Neal. He was only stating facts. You can do better.
Well, for starters I didn’t lie. A lie has to be on purpose.
Second, most of hit rant about Somalians was whataboutism, little if anything to do with what what ICE was doing.
The biggest liar on the planet is Trump followed by everyone in his administration.
People did not vote for these gestapo tactics and I am sick of those trying to justify it.
You were the one who put the Somalis in your post and I replied to that.
I do have some US ancestors and also some relatives who moved legally to the US on green cards.
As for being a racist and a bigot… I’ll proudly wear that cap if it means the illegals are kicked out. BTW my wife is coloured, my children mixed race, I worked with Eritrean refugees and my best friend is Kenyan. Guess I can’t join the KKK.
NOT TRUE mish. of course they voted for these topics. Trump 100% stated what he wanted to do with immigrants. for at least the past 40 years with his huge lifeguard style megaphone.
The irony is, relative to other western nations, America isnt even particularly burdened by immigrants anyway. Strip the illegal component out and the US would have very low immigration indeed, by modern standards. The H1B issue may irk people, but the actual numbers arent great.
Based on number of births to immigrant mothers (an actual ‘hard’ statistic, rather than the educated guess on immigration figures, and ‘finger in the air’ stuff on illegal immigration) it hasnt increased in 20 years. Its currently far less than most western nations.
I understand white Americans apprehensions when it comes to becoming a minority but firstly, thats already baked in, with under 18s being majority minority at the 2020 census, and likely under 25s or under 30s now…so its a bit late to worry.
And only some of that is immigration. The US was never more than barely 85% white to begin with, and whites have tended to have lower birthrates, so over the course of the next 80,90 years since 1940, along with interracial children, naturally the white share would fall, even with zero immigration, probably to something like 70% by now, rather than 55%..but still, it was always a matter of when, not if.
Anyway, the most recent numbers of births to immigrant mothers (as a percent of all births)
USA: 24.0% (2025)
Canada: 42.3% (2024)
Australia: 36.3% (2024)
England/Wales: 33.9% (2024)
Germany: 31.8% (2023)
Spain: 33.3% (2024)
France: 25.0% (2023)
Interesting analysis.
Its true
You can find the US stats here (provisional for 2025, final for other years)
https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html
Canada here
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251113/dq251113b-eng.htm
UK here
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2024
Australia here
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies/contents/overview-and-demographics/maternal-country-of-birth
and so forth
I’m not advocating for immigration here. The islamic immigration in Europe has serious problems, but such kinds immigration in the US arent as of now, much of an issue.
It seems to me Trump would be better focused on
1) healthcare costs
2) Housing costs
3) healthcare costs
4) the general inflation of food etc
5) healthcare costs
6) the utter huge deviation between wages & GDP thanks to these asset bubbles
7) healthcare costs
In 2007, UK wages & US wages were basically the same, and their GDP per capita basically the same.
In 2023 The US had roughly double the UK gdp per capita, but only 15% higher full time median wage. Consider the average working week in the US is two hours more, and there is no statutory paid leave in the US, compared to a (minimum) of 5.6 weeks in the UK, and you have to wonder where all the increase has gone, because it isnt to workers.
That is not an endorsement of the UK, but an explanation of how the US economy can doing so ‘well’ according to the stock market & GDP, and yet populists, whether Trump or Mamdani, are finding discontent on both ends. Personally i think inflation has been seriously undercounted. The exuberance about AI seems to be carrying a lot of promises with it, perhaps empty.
Where does this paid protester propaganda come from? You might actually be protesting if your rights were being trampled on but you sound like another bootlicking wussy so it’s highly doubtful you’d have the balls to do it.
There are multiple examples online showing that a portion of the protesters and protest organisers are being paid. Now the proportion who are paid and the proportion that do it for free is the only debatable point.
As for taking parts in protests I’ve done it, I also support those who want to protest in Minnesota as I defend the rights of people to peacefully protest even if I don’t agree with their cause.
As for being wussy…I’ve been to places with ongoing terrorism and conflict including entering Gaza during a lull in the Intafada to help a friend.
So I know lots of people who would like to go to the US but can’t get a visa. Why should they miss out for doing the right thing as the illegals jump the fence?
Maybe just open the border to be fair and not racist and let 500 million move in? As an employer I could expand into the US once you have wage parity with Africa.
it’s nonsense they are not being paid. it may be partly organized because there are organizations and they employ paid people but 99.999% of protesters re normal people. they may hear of a protest on Facebook or Insta, and the original post on that may be from an organization but so what? that’s how it always used to be done, a century ago.
this paid protester BS needs to stop. no one except far right cultists buy into that.
Utter horseshit.
You mean a State’s governor, a city’s mayor and the population therein are the problem? You need to have your head examined if you think the State of Minnesota and its people are the problem and not Federal gestapo invaders.
Perhaps the simple solution is to give border control to each individual state rather than the Federal government. That way states can decide if they want immigrants or bigot/racist filth within their borders.
Trump obviously realized he lost this battle in Minnesota after public opinion turned against him because of the brutality and senseless violence his Gestapo inflicted on Americans.
Amazing that some on forums like this are still happily defending the Gestapo violence when even Trump is running away from it as fast as possible (which admittedly is not very fast given his serious obesity).
When the polling shows the Trumpstein Teams voting numbers are cratering then a needed rethink is slapping these morons in the face. Can they ever regroup Now?
Never!
Additionally, this voter will boycott all Newscorp products and has canceled subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and Barrons.
i started read the WSJ and NYTimes and NYpost daily when i was about 10 years old in 1970. dad brought them home each day from work. i gave up my subscription to the WAR Street Journal the day murdoch bought it. he’s trash. for sure giving my barrons saved me big time. i fell for their pitching stocks plenty of times, decades ago. now i just trend following trader for past 30 years. so easy. so simple. takes about an hour per week of research………..though i’m still an info junkie just for kicks. read the book trend following. hat tip ed seykota. losers win by losing…….in life and in the markets. i’m still amazed how many intelligence folks are still rooting for blue or reds uniparty pro wrestling. war mongering nihilists.
People are past mad and past sick of it. Anything those dipshits do now will just piss them off more.
Dipshits that they are, they will try and push through, like Bondi did at the hearing, spewing lies, hate and insults, and refusing to point their face at the truth.
They will have to be physically removed. There is no reason, there are no morals, and they don’t care what happens to ANYONE but themselves.
These people are pure fucking evil, and we need to stop pretending like there’s a shred of decency in there. We need to stop pretending they can be convinced by reason and facts. We need to stop pretending they can be redeemed.
They are an existential threat to ALL of us.
Yes, it’s hard. At the personal level also.
No more treating the group – separate checks now.
I am going to be seeing some family in a couple months, and they’re getting the come to Jesus talk.
We’d reached an agreement: You mention trump and will burn you down for it. Had my little brother in tears last time, and would have continued if mom hadn’t asked me to stop. Haven’t heard a peep about trump from ANY of them since.
Visits were ok, after that. They run the Nazi channels on their always-on TVs (newsmax mostly, fox is fake news unless it says something they like), and I just mute it when I can hear it.
They STFU about their nazi bullshit, though and we all get along. I don’t bring up politics either.
I don’t know how they’ve reacted to the child rape, trafficking and torture stuff, but if they are still trump humpers after that, they are no longer my family. I’ve tolerated it as long as they don’t involve me, but supporting these kinds of crimes would cause me to permanently disown them.