During an interview that aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city would not work with ICE or any federal government agency with immigration enforcement work, partly because of “the moral imperative here,” but also “due to the fact that I want our police officers to focus on safety.”
Frey said, “In Minneapolis, we will not cooperate with ICE or any federal agency around immigration enforcement work, we will not. And by the way, there’s a good reason why we won’t do that, and it’s not just the moral imperative here, it’s also the fact that I want our police officers to focus on safety.”
He continued, “I want our police officers to arrest violent crime perpetrators and prevent carjackings from happening and do basic 911 response work. You know what I don’t want our police officers to do? Spend a minute chasing down a father who just dropped his kids off at daycare, who is going to work 12-hour shifts, who is from Ecuador.”
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