Vice President JD Vance will travel to Minnesota amid tensions over ICE
Source: USA Today
Jan. 20, 2026, 9:07 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Vice President JD Vance will visit Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, a person familiar with his plans said Jan. 20.
Vance will hold a roundtable with community members and deliver remarks in the city where the Trump administration is fighting to continue its immigration operations.
Vance has defended the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, calling it a tragedy of her own making" and alleging she was part of vast left-wing extremist network. The shooting prompted protests and has provoked bitter dispute between state and local officials.
The Trump administration's expanded immigration enforcement raids and officers' aggressive tactics have stirred protests and increasing calls from local officials for ICE to leave the city. Vance also visited Minnesota in September with his wife to pay his respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/20/vice-president-jd-vance-minneapolis-minnesota-ice/88274326007/
suegeo
(3,125 posts)I don't like you. I don't trust you. I hope your wife leaves you and takes your children far far away.
FU
CanonRay
(16,050 posts)Bengus81
(9,984 posts)by August.
GPV
(73,378 posts)2naSalit
(101,340 posts)Because they can't seem to goad the good people of Minnesota into giving them an excuse to bring in the troops.
Herself
(197 posts)Activity this morning.
Yesterday there were more than a dozen reports in NY. Today there is only two.
Across the country the activity has been greatly reduced.
Is it too cold for them?
Have they been Iced Out?
Has the gop pressured a draw down with ICE due to their election fears?
2naSalit
(101,340 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)ananda
(34,626 posts)I wish they'd close all the hotels to him.
bluestarone
(21,734 posts)He's goung there to help ICE!
littlemissmartypants
(32,806 posts)durablend
(9,097 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(1,142 posts)They'll be a bunch of hand-picked Nazi sympathizers.
travelingthrulife
(4,866 posts)AStern
(771 posts)The worthless troll.
BaronChocula
(4,250 posts)He'll go in and "yip yip yip" at a bunch of strangers he feels threatened by before running back to his AF 2 kennel.
Bayard
(29,084 posts)Especially if he starts calling Renee Good a terrorist. Lighting a match for military takeover, and killing more citizens.
PatrickforB
(15,387 posts)Vance spouts the billionaire line - Immigrants bad, profits good, survival of the fittest and all the rest of the bunkum.
The truth: All those protesters have finally had ENOUGH of this billionaire shit. We don't need a dictator, we need progressives who actually govern FOR US, the people instead of for these Wall Street people. Once we remember our compassion and the basic humanity of everyone, we can begin to rebuild.
Dulcinea
(9,898 posts)VD Jance is being sent to MN to take the spotlight off of that.