The administration needs to find a way for immigration enforcement operations to continue, something for which “the American people voted,” Smith said, “while at the same time working with sanctuary jurisdictions to ensure limited public safety threats, limited violence and mayhem that neither side wants to see.” Walz and Frey have called on the Trump administration to end immigration enforcement operations in the state and have only increased those demands following the Border Patrol-involved shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex J. Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. “The other side is behaving in ways that guarantee people are going to get killed and shot and maced in the face, in front of cameras, [but] then that’s the point,” the Trump administration official said.
Author: Virginia Allen
Published at: 2026-01-27 23:05:00
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