Minneapolis ICE Operation Turns Deadly: Sanctuary Cities and Federal Law
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We are following this developing story out of Minnesota, Minneapolis in particular.
Let me give to you the latest update.
This is from the Department of Homeland Security as to what has gone on today.
And by the way, this is very predictable.
Let me be very clear here.
This is a direct consequence of the never-ending, non-stop, constant attacks, endless demonization, doxing, threatening of ICE officers, especially in these sanctuary cities by sanctuary politicians who have been encouraging rampant assaults on law enforcement.
I mean, ICE agents now are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
This is happening because of the rhetoric of the radical left in this country.
And, you know, let us start with a simple point of education for the radical left.
We are a nation that is governed by a constitution.
Within our constitution is something known as the supremacy clause, which means that jurisdiction, law enforcement jurisdiction for federal law lies with the federal government.
You know, under Biden and Harris, Mayorkas, you know, we had wide open borders, 12, 20 million people.
Nobody knows the real number of unvetted illegal immigrants, and among them known terrorists, known cartel members, known gang members, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, drug dealers, all allowed into this country.
And many Americans have died.
And the left has shown over and over and over again that they care more about the so-called rights of illegals than they do about the safety and security of you, the American people.
And that environment has led to what happened today in Minnesota, in Minneapolis specifically.
Let me read from the Department of Homeland Security.
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers.
By the way, in and of itself, that would be a crime.
You would be preventing law enforcement.
That's obstruction of justice.
It has a name.
One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them, an act of domestic terrorism.
An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement, and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.
He used his training, saved his own life, and that of his fellow officers.
The alleged perpetrator was hit, is now deceased.
The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
Thank God.
And this is a direct impact of the constant attacks, as I said, and demonization of ICE officers by these sanctuary politicians, among them Timmy Walls, among them this idiot mayor of Minneapolis, who we'll get to in a minute, you know, Jacob Fry, Fry Baby as he's known, or small fry among people in Minnesota.
But it's an evolving situation.
And as more information becomes available, it will be provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
So it leads to Mayor Jacob Smallfry, baby fry, fry baby, telling ICE, clearly doesn't understand the Constitution, the supremacy clause of our country, but this is his response to this.
Remember, what we are reporting here is you had, and remember, we've seen this.
There's an app that is nationwide that actually is tipping off people all around the country if ICE officers show up in a neighborhood giving warning to illegal immigrants in our country, people that did not respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
That puts ICE officers' lives in jeopardy.
It makes their job harder.
It makes it more dangerous.
What does it do?
It eliminates the element of surprise, which is critical for law enforcement, especially if they're involved in an operation to arrest illegal immigrants and in some cases, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members.
But it takes away the element of surprise.
It puts their lives in further jeopardy.
You can thank sanctuary cities and states for putting, you know, for prioritizing this over the enforcement of law.
Now, if Democrats want to change the laws, they can change it, or they could just, you know, get back in power and lie to us and allow all these unvetted illegals into our country, which puts American lives in jeopardy.
You know, go back to the president last year joint session speech, and he recognizes Lake and Riley's family, Jocelyn Nungarry's family, a young man who beat cancer, becomes a Secret Service agent.
They couldn't even stand for the families that lost loved ones that were murdered by Biden-Harris Mayorkis illegals.
They don't care.
They care more about the so-called rights of illegals.
I mean, you can't stand for Jocelyn Nungarry's family, her mom, Alexis, you know, 12-year-old girl brutally murdered and raped and thrown in a river in Texas.
I mean, it's beyond sick.
I said at the time, and I'll say it again, they lost their heart, their soul, their conscience at that time.
But anyway, so you have the mayor of Minneapolis, you know, Jacob Smallfry, out there giving this extraordinary message, you know, telling the ICE agents whose duty it is to enforce the laws of our country to get the F out of Minneapolis.
Here's what he said.
There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE.
To ICE, get the f out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here.
Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
People are being hurt.
Families are being ripped apart.
Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized.
And now somebody is dead.
That's on you.
And it's also on you to leave.
It's on you to make sure that further damage, further loss of life and injury is not done.
The incitement is coming from the radical left.
The ICE agent shot the woman, again, allegedly, I have to say allegedly, was ramming officers with a vehicle.
If you ram somebody with a vehicle, you can kill them.
That makes this an act of self-defense.
What ICE is now calling domestic terrorism.
But, you know, now we have Governor Timmy.
I mean, they have the worst politicians in Minnesota.
I don't know what is up with the people of Minnesota.
I have no idea.
Keith Ellison, your attorney general, this idiot, this moron mayor of Minneapolis.
You have a lunatic governor, Tim Walz, who, by the way, is getting excoriated and exposed on Capitol Hill today.
We'll hit that later.
But he goes to XA, my public safety team is working to gather information on an ICE-related shooting this morning.
We will share information as we learn more.
In the meantime, I ask folks to remain calm.
After news of the shooting, Congresswoman Omar, ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city.
They're not leaving.
They're not getting the F out.
I had Tom Holman on last night.
And after the billions and billions of dollars that were stolen from the people of not only Minnesota, but this country, in light of this systemic and institutionalized corruption that's been going on in that state and clearly elsewhere around the country, that is not going to happen.
ICE has not, this is their job to enforce the laws of the land.
Period.
End of sentence, no pause stop here.
I mean, you know, we had this incident that took place.
And by the way, I tip my hat to the Hilton Hotel brand for what they did.
You had the General Services Administration terminating, they had a Hilton-named independently owned hotel.
In other words, they'll franchise out the name Hilton and they'll slap it on an independently owned hotel.
And as soon as they refused access to ICE and law enforcement agents and Hilton found out about it, they took away the right of this independent operator to use the term Hilton.
And they put out a long statement saying how everybody is welcome at a Hilton hotel.
I give them a lot of credit for doing all of that.
But, you know, you can't convince me that all of this frenzy has been whipped up by these reckless politicians, these sanctuary state city politicians that do not enforce laws of our country and have created an environment where the radicals pretty much control everything.
There's no law.
There's no order.
No, they are aiding and abetting in the law breaking.
At some point, we have got to ask ourselves why sanctuary city mayors, why sanctuary state governors are not held responsible for aiding and abetting and offering aid and comfort to those people that have clearly broken our laws.
Now, on Capitol Hill, you've got this scathing audit that came out in Minnesota, conducted by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Auditor, found widespread failures, internal control problems, Department of Human Services, Behavioral Administration, and their grant program.
I mean, when you look at the amount of people, I mean, this is unbelievable.
If you look at, and this, and by the way, this is the tip of the iceberg.
I mean, for example, in Minnesota, 54% of the Somali community is on food stamps.
54%.
I'll play Brandon Gilly went off on this earlier today.
The percentage of Somali-headed households on Medicaid, 73%.
They have a whopping 80% child autism rate in the Somali Minnesota community, which is unheard of and it's not real.
It's a way to defraud the government.
Have this independent citizen journalist who's done a really good job.
Unfortunately, I mean, his life is now in jeopardy, which it shouldn't.
His name is Nick Shirley.
He's done a great job.
He would go to all these places, daycare centers that were spending billions of dollars for daycare for people in Minnesota, and he'd knock on the door.
No kids are there.
They don't even have facilities.
It's all just institutionalized fraud.
You know, Minnesota, 73% rate on Medicaid.
I mean, they're stealing from the American people.
The percentage of Somali-headed households on welfare in general, 81%.
10 years of being in the U.S., the percentage of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare.
78%.
I mean, this is insane.
It's institutionalized stealing, and that is now being front and center.
James Comer accusing Tim Walz of being asleep at the wheel.
It's worse than that because he was warned by whistleblowers that all of this was taking place, and he chose to do nothing.
That's where this is going to end up leading.
By the way, squad representative Presley's ex-con husband slaps a phone out of a guy's hand as he tried to ask her a question.
Sir, you cannot take my phone out of my hand, the questioner can be heard as saying in the incident.
Let's see if anything happens.
I don't know if I slap somebody's phone out of their hand.
If it's the million times in my life that people stick a phone in my face or a microphone in my face, if I'm out and about, what do you think would happen to me, Linda?
I think I'd probably be arrested, don't you think?
Absolutely.
Yeah, I would be.
But I just say, sir, please give me some distance.
Please don't make me hurt you.
That's my favorite line.
Please don't make me hurt you.
And then I step back and I de-escalate.
Can I buy you a drink?
I say that in a restaurant to people, you know, that are being jackasses to me.
The last thing I want is to ever have this.
Anyway, we're going to continue to follow this story throughout the day.
We have other stories we're going to get to.
We're going to update you on the situation in Venezuela.
Cuba is on the brink.
Rand is on the brink.
We'll give you updates on all of this.
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You see the mayor of Minneapolis and Tim Walz now following this is pure propaganda.
Well, either the woman tried to ram into ICE agents and kill them, or she didn't.
It's that simple.
It's that basic.
It's that fundamental.
But it is the rhetoric of the radical left, the demonization of ICE agents that is now institutionalized by the radical left.
It has created this insane environment.
All right, we'll get to the other news on the other side.
We have a lot of other news today straight ahead.
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And the behind-the-scenes chatter that the mainstream media doesn't even know about.
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By the way, 25 to the top of the hour, I just saw a clip of Tim Walz referring to ICE agents as Gestapo.
You don't think this creates an environment that puts officers in jeopardy?
President Trump just putting on Truth Social.
I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A terrible thing to watch.
The woman was screaming, was obviously a professional agitator, he goes on to say.
I mean, all of this is so preventable, which is just so frustrating to me.
And he goes on and says, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing, resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense based on the attached clip.
It is hard to believe he's alive, but he's now recovering in the hospital.
The situation is being studied in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the radical left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis.
They are just trying to do the job of making America safe.
We need to stand by and protect our law enforcement officers from this radical left movement of violence and of hate.
And you look at the video, and it's a blockade.
Woman just drives right through it.
And then, you know, other agitators involved.
It's just, you know, so preventable, so sad, so predictable, to be very honest.
Anyway, it's, I don't know.
I really don't get it.
I really don't get it.
Hang on.
I am sending a note to somebody as we speak.
Hang on.
Okay.
Important.
Sorry.
You know, Democrats now claim ICE endangers the public.
Well, they ignore the real statistics.
You know, but going back to 2014 was a study showing 21% of U.S. homicides are committed by illegal immigrants.
And this is long before Joe Biden allowed, you know, 12, 20 million, whatever the number is, you know, million, you know, unvetted people into this country.
And in the wake of today's shooting, you know, you hear Democrats complaining that when ICE agents attempt to remove illegal immigrants from our communities, how much longer are these Democratic politicians going to try to obstruct justice, aid and abet criminal lawbreakers, and put ICE agents in jeopardy?
I've given you the numbers.
There are through the roof the incidence of attempted assaults on ICE agents.
Nobody seems to care about them.
They never mention the people, the innocent Americans murdered and raped and victims of other violent crime.
Don't mention the number of Americans that lose their lives because the drug cartels they don't go anywhere near it.
Anyway, we're going to continue to follow this story related to what's going on around the world.
For example, you know, Cuba now has no energy.
The Cuban people have been living in poverty.
There's a reason, you know, we have a very large Cuban-American community.
And I will tell you, I haven't been to Miami a whole bunch of my life and haven't even broadcast from Miami in what some refer to as Little Havana.
I mean, it's such a strong Cuban-American presence.
Linda, you were there with me.
They are the greatest people on the face of this earth, hardest working, God-fearing, loving people you'd ever want to meet and hang out with in your life.
They really are an amazing community.
I really developed a strong relationship with them after the Elliot Gonzalez case, if you remember, and I was down there for that.
And I just, you know, they are hopeful for the first time.
The only reason the Cuban economy stays afloat is because people that got in broken down, dilapidated, rickety boats or inner tubes and shark-infested waters and made their way to Miami and made their way to Florida and have pursued the American dream successfully.
The wealth, the success has been amazing.
People that leave communism, they get a breath of capitalism and they embrace it and they thrive like they should in America.
I mean, too many Americans take freedom for granted.
Don't take it for granted.
But people that come from countries where they didn't have freedom, they embrace it.
They inhale it.
They appreciate it.
And sometimes we don't appreciate the gifts that we have.
But the community is amazing.
And the Miami community, I know, is very hopeful.
But the only reason that the Cuban economy has been propped up is because people in the Cuban-American community have been so gracious and generous to friends and family and loved ones that remain impoverished in Cuba.
Now, the lifeblood of every economy is energy, oil.
Almost all of Cuba's energy came from Venezuela.
They're now going to be cut off.
And that means that probably Cuba, their long-suffering economy is now in a free fall.
I read this in the New York Times today.
By all accounts, Cuba is now enduring the worst economic moment in the 67-year history of the communist revolution.
I'll never forget when I was in Huntsville, Alabama, a neighboring town called Decatur, I had an advertiser on my show.
It was Mando's Pizza.
The owner was Armando de Quesada.
He was a Cuban refugee, and he was there during, he's since passed away.
He was a great guy.
And by the way, he had a great pizza store.
I would go after, you know, either before my radio show for lunch or after I'd go hang out with this guy.
And he told me the whole story.
His family was fairly wealthy.
They were landowners.
That land was confiscated after the revolution.
And he fought for a while in the resistance until he became a target of Castro and his regime.
And he was somehow able to escape in a rickety boat and made his way to America.
And he built a life for himself, a business for himself.
And him and his family prospered as a result.
But he always did say that he sent money back to loved ones in Cuba.
He's a great guy.
We became very close friends, amazing friends.
But the president announced last night that the authorities in Venezuela, now, a lot of people have asked me, well, why hasn't the president fully endorsed Maria Karina Machado at this point, the opposition leader that in 2023 won 92 plus percent of the vote to run against Maduro?
Maduro wouldn't let her because I think the president understands that for now, there is a degree of control and a degree of necessity for continuity as they transition into getting their energy economy up and running.
The only way that can happen is with American ingenuity, American energy companies, and that money hopefully will flow very quickly to the Venezuelan people.
But also, America will benefit greatly from all of this.
And by the way, as Maria Machado has said on this program, but anyway, he announced that over between 30 and 50 million barrels of high-quality sanctioned oil to the U.S. will be turned over by Venezuela, and that oil will be sold at market price, and that money will be controlled by the president, and the president will use that money and ensure that it will be used to the benefit of the people of Venezuela and the people of this country.
And I do believe in the process of rebuilding.
Remember, American ingenuity and American oil companies built out the energy sector starting way back in the 1920s.
They have the largest oil reserves in the entire world in Venezuela.
But this is the beginning of, and by the way, it's a perilous process.
This is not in any way going to be an easy, you know, he's in this for the long run.
It's just the way it is.
Hang on at four.
Sorry, I'm doing 10 things at once here, which I hate to do.
All right.
So anyway, two out of three polls now show Trump's approval rating, you know, going through the roof.
I just talked to Matt Towery, Insider Advantage.
Said, you know, nearly 60% of Americans approve of the president's actions in Venezuela, what they're now calling the Donroad Doctrine, which, you know, there are so many benefits that we haven't even spoken about.
I mentioned yesterday how the missile defense systems and the air defense systems in Venezuela were Russian-made and China-made, and they failed, just like they failed spectacularly in Iran.
And what that means is the influence that Iran, China, and Russia had in Venezuela and our hemisphere is now gone as well.
And the president says he's going to sell Venezuelan oil, and that money will be used for the benefit of the 86% of Venezuelans who've been living in poverty because of the corruption going back to Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro.
And Maduro sends, you know, this arrest sends a clear message to all these drug cartels and all these other countries that your days are numbered, period, end of sentence.
And, you know, we got so much happening.
You know, the brutal Maduro enforcer, you know, there are people that are standing in the way or trying to stand in the way, but in the end, they're not going to have any success doing so.
And U.S. demands from Venezuela to sever economic ties with Iran, Cuba, and China.
That's all going to happen as well.
But there's a period of transition in any effort like this because there's a great amount of difficulty.
Now, Fox News reporting today as we move along, and I don't think this would have happened had Donald Trump not taken out the nuclear capability of the Iranian mullahs.
But the headline is Iran is on the brink as protesters now move to take two cities.
And there's a major development, two cities in western Iran that have been effectively taken over and people actually celebrating in the streets.
I've seen videos of police laying down their arms and showing solidarity with the protesters.
That's something that had never happened before.
The people chanting death to Khamani, Ali Khamenei now, according to multiple reports, has plans to defect and move on to Russia.
Iranian freedom fighters now say Tehran is a war zone.
The National Council of Resistance on Iran put out that protests now spread to 110 cities across the country.
32 so far identified as having been killed, signaling a major shift in the balance of power in the streets.
Security forces did ramp up their brutality, but it seems to be backfiring and more people take to the streets as the violence gets ratcheted up by the Ayatollah's mob.
By Tuesday morning, the Grand Bazaar, usually a hub of trade, described by one witness as a war zone.
The regime is trying to deploy all their resources.
Their offer of $7 a month for people to stop protesting is laughable, but I don't think there's any doubt that really any day, any week, any month from now, that this regime is on the verge of collapsing as well.
All again, because of Donald Trump and his actions and his understanding of America's military might and how to use it effectively without creating forever wars in keeping with the Trump doctrine, which, by the way, is not even understood by people that claim to be MAGA.
They're MAGA morons.
They're not real MAGA people.
Look at their background and you'll find that they're usually fair weather friends of Donald Trump.
They're there when things are good and then they've abandoned Donald Trump when things are more difficult.
And they were never with him from the beginning.
They were the very people criticizing me for supporting them.
But anyway, U.S. forces have Also dramatically seized this Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic.
There's something you need to know about this because this tanker is linked to both Venezuela and Hezbollah.
And the seizure of this tanker was supported also by Great Britain and British Armed Forces.
The Ministry of Defense, they revealed that they were a part of this operation.
And the Defense Secretary John Healy said today our UK armed forces showed skill and professionalism in support of a successful U.S. interception of vessel Bella 1 while on its way to Russia.
The action formed part of global efforts to crack down on sanctions.
And it shows that the U.S. and the UK are taking these sanctions seriously and they're going to enforce them.
I mean, so there's a lot happening around the globe as we skip around the globe.