Where there's chaos in Minneapolis, it's of ICE's making [View all]
By Adam Minter / Bloomberg Opinion
On Saturday morning, Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on a busy Minneapolis street. The Trump administration wasted no time in doing a bit of preemptive inoculation.
In a post on X Saturday, Vice President J.D. Vance claimed that “far left agitators, working with local officials,” had “engineered chaos” in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump echoed the sentiment in a series of social media posts on Sunday, blaming local authorities for refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The messages from the president and vice president were clear: If the city erupts, it won’t be ICE’s fault. Responsibility would belong to Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey.
But Vance and Trump had the story backward. What local officials engineered wasn’t chaos. It was a firewall. By separating local law enforcement from ICE operations, they’ve earned public trust and reminded wary Minneapolis residents that ICE is the source of the city’s recent tumult.
It’s been a daunting task.
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