The Minneapolis City Council, in an 8-5 vote, refused to renew liquor licenses for two hotels accused of housing ICE agents, delaying action to seek greater ‘public input’ in the process. A public hearing for residents to complain about the hotels is scheduled for February 17.
Canopy by Hilton, credit: Hilton
The hotels have been targets of protests because federal immigration officers were believed to be staying there during the immigration enforcement surge that brought 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota, when an agent killed Renee Good.
Even the city’s attorney told the council that (1) the hotels complied with liquor licensing laws, (2) are eligible for renewal, and (3) deny the licenses on the basis of housing federal employees is impermissible and they’d need other grounds.
If there’s any plausible argument, it’s that protestors don’t like the hotels and that the protestors themselves create a dangerous situation where on-premises alcohol could become a problem. Protests broke windows and graffitied the Depot Renaissance, and forced their way into the Canopy through an alley entrance before leaving.
The five council members voting against the delay suggested license renewals shouldn’t be used as a proxy fight over who stays at a hotel, that it’s discriminatory, and creates legal liability. City licensing staff said the hotels can keep serving alcohol in the meantime – the current licenses effectively remain usable pending final council action.
- A (brief) delay seems legal, while the hotels suffer no harm because they can serve alcohol in the interim. If a delay became extended, that could create a cloud of uncertainty which undermines the market value of the properties.
- Punishing a hotel for doing business with the federal government or for who its guests are is clearly illegal. And council statements make clear that searching for liquor law violations and findings that could condition approval is pretextual.
Renaissance, credit: Marriott
It never ceases to amaze me that city councils say they’re doing illegal things, but the point isn’t to sustain any decision but to be performative for voters.
Last thing those people need is alcohol.
if no illegal criminals in town, there will be no ice in town
When the city loses in court after tons of legal costs, it won’t even teach them a lesson, I’m sure.
Regardless of what leanings you identify with (right, left, center, progressive, liberal, conservative, libertarian, etc) this is what internal political lawfare looks like. And it’s wrong. History has never shown that the side that has one set of rules they apply to themselves, and a different set of rules they apply to their political opponents, are the good guys.
Minneapolis is sick and tired of these invaders’ kidnapings, murders, and general harassment of citizens as well as non-citizens who have every legal right to be there. It’s too late for “good germans” to stop the stormtroopers, but I favor any and all nonviolent ways to express loathing for these heartless, faceless, soulless occupiers. 93% those seized by ICE have no criminal record anywhere. That said, I don’t know if alcohol licenses can be withheld from places in the service of evil or not. I guess that will be up to the courts.
Umm, Gary, that’s some nice sane-wash you got goin’ on there, but, it’s no longer ‘business as usual’ and ‘just follow the law/orders’ when our government starts murdering citizens with impunity… clearly, R’s aren’t solving anything, anywhere, and scapegoating, grifting, doubling-down, and planning to cheat to retain power indefinitely, won’t work well for them or anyone in the end.
Oh wow the city council is discussing doing something illegal. That’s so much worse than the Federal agents who are illegally detaining citizens and illegally murdering them and illegally ignoring court orders and illegally violating the 4th amendment. Glad we got a whole article about how the city council is thinking about denying liquor licenses. Wouldn’t want the dems to do 1 bad thing while the country is falling apart.
This is one of those rare times I wish I were a lawyer…because I would sue the sh!t out of Minneapolis for so blatantly basing my liquor license on a political condition. Isn’t bribing the inspectors illegal? Well so is basing a liquor license on anything other than the actual serving of alcohol! This impinges upon the profitability and value of a hotel and to penalize these hotels for such blatant political reasons is extremely illegal and unethical. I would salivate at the notion of kicking their a$$ in a courtroom! Plus guess what! I would champion law abiding travelers and locals to patronize these 2 hotels to mitigate the political retribution the simple minded city council members are attempting to wage against them.
That’s right MN, teach the country a lesson by hurting your own businesses. Of course any headlines that don’t read Billion dollar fraud are welcome for that state.
The Depot could be hurt considerably as it does a number of weddings and receptions in their restored 1940’s reception area.
Hope saner head prevail, unlike the ridiculous and overwrought polemics championed above. I guess they prefer illegal alien criminals walking the streets and committing crimes against our citizens, and all others, regardless of legal consequence, if any by the local authorities.
If the hotel is knowingly housing domestic terrorists, no reason the city can’t target them with more scrutiny.
If the hotel is knowingly housing domestic t*rrorists, no reason the city can’t target them with more scrutiny.
DaveS –
Your statistic is bogus as I have never seen such a lie anywhere.
As for the uninitiated, the accurate statistic is those who have a criminal conviction or who are currently facing charges, not only those who are convicted of a crime.
In addition, the paper trail of those who crossed the border illegally, does not extend very far if they are using a false identity or alias or if they come from a jurisdiction that does not have accurate vetting methods so as to ascertain whether they had any criminal convictions in their home countries.
As for those who have been apprehended by ICE, I have seen figures as high as 70% with the metric I have advanced; not the paltry 7% advanced by the polemical apologist, DaveS. ,
Two things about me:
1. I don’t follow and harass law enforcement officers.
2. I haven’t been shot dead by any law enforcement officers.
@Chris
Funny how that works. I haven’t had a problem with law enforcement either. You can get on You Tube and watch literally thousands of videos from police cameras showing people resisting, fighting, running, ignoring, trying to disarm, etc. I’m willing to bet most of them are Democrats
Apparently, the city council of Minneapolis is more concerned about the terroristic minority of individuals who are impeding government officials from doing their jobs of curbing waste, fraud, an abuse by illegal migrant alien non-authorized residents in Minnesota, than running a city for the benefit of its people and economic health and development of the region.
VOTE those Bozo’s out in that crazy city council if there are enough of you who have not fled already from that place. I love the concept of “States Rights” but when a local government has been hijacked by Idiocracy through possible election corruptions, and outside foreign influence such as through Act Blue rigging elections then it really is unfortunate for the real citizens who count on true legal representation in their state and local elections.
I just wonder how long before this craziness starts affecting Delta and Sun Country’s hubs.
Some of these comments are absolutely hilarious. Reading right wing people foaming at the mouth about the “blatant illegality” of liquor license renewals while *Americans* are being murdered is truly jaw dropping.
Get out of your bubble and look at the bigger picture!
The same people who told us we were living through a communist dictatorship when they had to wear a mask on a plane are completely unbothered by the secret police force signing their own warrants to break down their front doors.
Seems Jefferson DaveS is adamant about continuing the rebellion. He proclaims he favors nonviolent ways, yet his rebels bite the finger off federal officers, impede their free movement, stone federal officers with rocks and increasingly seem to be arming themselves with firearms. According to a recent study “The stereotype of gun owners as only white, rural Republicans is changing; 41% of registered Democrats reported living in a household with a gun, up from 33% in 2019.” I suggest Democrats pay attention to how their last open rebellion ended lest enflamed Minneapolis-St. Paul wind up like burnt November 1864 Atlanta.
@Sean
Do what Chris says and there is no problem. Use a vehicle as a weapon. Fight officers while carrying a gun and your permit has been revoked, bad things can happen. Reference the YouTube library for thousands of police videos showing idiots like those in Minneapolis.
As has been demonstrated time and time again by this administration’s complete disdain for the rule of law, governments can do as they please any more and there is limited backlash.
In this case all the folks on here pearl-clutching it really sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn’t it?
I don’t her any of you crying fowl over the bar in Minocqua, WI being harassed by local government because its owner is liberal. Guess that’s different.
Maybe the protestors, I’m sorry the people “protecting” Minneapolis, can set up one of their “papers please!” checkpoints at the entrance to the hotels as a compromise?
> if no illegal criminals in town, there will be no ice in town
That’s a tautology. In simple English, you’re saying the same thing twice.
ICE has been violating numerous laws, murdering, leaving detainees in medical distress in the forest in -10F for dead, detaining most people without the slightest concern for immigration status or seeing passports. And they’re also driving drunk with no plates front or back, running stop signs, running red lights, and causing serious accidents.
Remember when we were supposed to be furious that one immigrant caused a traffic accident. Imagine that but 1000x worse and that’s ICE. No one wants them here.
The Administration is pulling 700 of the masked and obviously poorly trained ICE agents out of MN.
Well done citizens of Minneapolis!
“I don’t her any of you crying fowl…”
Should their concern be directed towards chickens, turkeys or maybe ducks?
One side of this argument is hard working and clean cut. The other side screams like banshees and is festooned with multicolored hair, facial tattoos and enough piercings that they couldn’t get through a metal detector. The latter is who is running Minneapolis right now.
And no, ICE isn’t murdering anyone. Nor do “kidnappers” return their “victims” home, as ICE is doing. This is all crap and the city of Minneapolis has devolved into a disgrace that should be divided into two parts: CHAZ and West Mogadishu. The latter will be the more pleasant section..
City leaders do illegal things all of the time. They should be the ones going to jail. In fact, some of them get caught and do go to jail.
@stoogieguy.
CHAZ and Mogadishu! Hilarious yet sad what a dump MSP has become. Never been and plan on keeping it that way.
Here is a real sad bit of truth. Once the gravy train of free money that Minneapolis apparently exists upon through severe abuse of funds intentioned as good will to the unauthorized is fully over…. The rebound to the economy will make MN a stagnant place for growth in many areas for years to come. Hope you did not make the mistake of making a major life relocation there cause the future of the metro areas look kind of bleak to me.
Heads up Sun Country and Delta and other airlines with large operations here.
Gotta love all the hatred in the comments. Keep it up folks!
Good. Get wannabe dictator Don’s thugs out of the city any way you can.
A CBP agent was found drunk passed out and covered in vomit by the St. Paul police and arrested. DHS. Is investigating and he was given a court date in March. Sounds fair to me. Meanwhile the injustice of spraying murdering and deporting others continues.
The willful ignorance of many is amazing. Minneapolis has 17 Fortune 500 headquarters and one of the best qualities of life for any metro area in the country.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250530-why-minneapolis-is-one-of-the-worlds-happiest-places
Do I want to live next door to someone who may break into my home and murder my family in the middle of the night…NO! Do I want to live across the street from someone who might want to abduct my children or grandchildren and traffic them into sex rackets? NO! Do I want to live in a State that celebrates a group of people who steal billions of Tax Payer money with fraudulent scams of Day Care locations with no children in them, or the many other such scams to secure funds to send overseas, all at Tax Payer expense? NO! And at this point I am in favor of cutting Minnesota loose and let them deal with the fallout on their own without any of my Tax Dollars. I applaud the families and others who have self deported who will then receive the assistance they need to apply to come back to this Country the legal way.
To all the haters out there, a question. How many of the illegals are you sponsoring and supporting? How many have you invited into your home? Have you even had them to dinner in your home? Are you sponsoring them? Have you given them a job?
As for the two people who lost their lives, neither one is likely to be nominated posthumously for the Nobel Peace Prize. And it could be logically argued that if you do stupid things, like try to ram a Federal Agent with your car, or carry a firearm with additional ammo in a threatening manor in front of a Federal Agent, the outcome will not be good. For those who will dispute the gun issue, it would take less than one second to pull that gun from his waist.
Based on data from 2024–2026, immigrants in the United States, including both lawful permanent residents and the undocumented, generally display high labor force participation, lower crime rates than native-born citizens, and lower utilization rates of public benefits, despite facing increased restrictions on accessing them.
Here are the key, current facts regarding the four areas requested:
1. Hard-Working (Labor Participation)
Immigrants are highly active in the U.S. workforce and, on average, have a higher labor force participation rate than native-born Americans.
Labor Force Participation: As of 2023, 68% of foreign-born individuals aged 25+ were in the labor force, compared to 63% of native-born individuals.
Employment Rates: In 2018, 63.4% of foreign-born adults were employed, compared to 59.8% of native-born adults.
Key Sectors: Immigrants fill critical gaps, particularly in farming/forestry (36%), building/grounds maintenance (36%), and construction (24%).
Job Creation: Immigrants are not just taking jobs; they are increasingly driving economic growth, accounting for nearly 40% of household growth in recent years.
2. Law-Abiding (Crime Rates)
Data consistently shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than native-born U.S. citizens.
Incarceration Rates: A 2025 analysis found that in 2023, U.S. citizens aged 18–54 were incarcerated at a rate of 1.2%, compared to 0.6% for undocumented immigrants and 0.3% for legal immigrants.
Lower Crime Probability: Studies indicate that undocumented immigrants are roughly 48% less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens, while legal immigrants are 58% less likely.
Homicide Rates: Undocumented immigrants have a 41% lower total criminal conviction rate than native-born Americans.
Long-Term Trends: Research covering 150 years (1870–2020) shows immigrants have consistently had lower incarceration rates than native-born citizens.
3. Family Structure and Stability
Immigrant families are highly resilient, often showing higher rates of marriage and lower divorce rates than native-born families, which contributes to family stability.
Children of Immigrants: Children in immigrant households show significant upward mobility, often surpassing their parents in education and earnings.
Schooling: The children of immigrants are often more likely to graduate from high school than the children of native-born, with high school dropout rates for the second generation being only 8% (down from 36% for first-generation parents).
4. Government Benefits (Usage and Restrictions)
Immigrants, particularly undocumented ones, have very limited access to federal benefits, and on average, consume less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans.
Lower Usage: Studies indicate that immigrants consume roughly 24% less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis.
Undocumented Ineligibility: Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most federal, means-tested benefits, including SNAP (food stamps), non-emergency Medicaid, and TANF.
Tax Contributions: Despite having restricted access to benefits, immigrants paid an estimated $89.8 billion in combined federal, state, and local taxes in 2023.
2025/2026 Restrictions: New legislation in 2025 (such as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” or H.R. 1) has tightened eligibility further, restricting access to Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA health insurance for many newcomers.
Public Charge Rule: Even if eligible, many immigrant families avoid using benefits due to fear of the “public charge” rule, which can affect their ability to obtain a green card.
Note: These findings are based on data from reports by the Cato Institute, American Immigration Council, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2023-2026).
You do realize these two organizations outside of government are left wing biased don’t you so therefore are unreliable …. Feel free to use AI to verify their bias
I bet the people doing the survey of MN BBC happiness, probably were doing their research in Starbucks or Cozy upscale hotel. Let’s be realistic BBC the same organization that lied and edited the Trump Speech to make it appear he said stuff that he did not.
And those 17 Fortune 500 companies in MN are made up too? Do you claim to be a Christian Klima?
Rebel —
All the think tanks you quoted are pro-immigration.
You don’t know that the Cato Institute is discredited in conservative circles because of its open borders policies = pro illegal migration and H1B visas taking the jobs of Americans.
That is because you spend too much time on BlueSky!
As for 17 Fortune 500 companies, that is a result of the past hardworking Scandinavian work ethic, which has all but been destroyed by the Somali graft.
Fully 80% of the Somali heritage population residing there is on some form of public assistance, more than a decade after having been welcomed to the Twin Cities.
“AI Overview
Based on a December 2025 report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), roughly 81% of Somali immigrant households in Minnesota use at least one form of means-tested public assistance.
This figure refers specifically to Somali households in Minnesota, which has the largest concentration of Somali immigrants in the United States.
Key Data Points from the Report:
Household Welfare Usage: 81% of Somali households in Minnesota receive some form of welfare (including food stamps/SNAP, Medicaid, cash welfare, or housing aid), compared to 21% of native-born households in the state.
Households with Children: The rate rises to approximately 89% for Somali households with children.
Medicaid and Food Stamps: Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Somali households use Medicaid, and 54% use food stamps (SNAP).
Cash Assistance: 27% of Somali households receive cash welfare.
Poverty Rate: Over two-thirds (66.1%) of Somali immigrant adults in Minnesota live “in or near poverty”.
The report also indicates that these rates remain high even for those who have been in the U.S. for over 10 years, with 78% of such households still utilizing welfare.”
“Minneapolis is sick and tired of these invaders’ kidnapings, murders, and general harassment of citizens as well as non-citizens who have every legal right to be there.”
Seriously? The only people who are invaders are the illegal aliens who invaded our country, who committed a misdemeanor if they entered the country without permission once, and felony if more than once under 8 U.S.C. § 1325. ICE agents aren’t kidnapping people off of the streets, unless you count apprehending those with warrants and removal orders pending as kidnapping – which it isn’t. Don’t want to be harassed by ICE? Simple, don’t interfere with their actions. Don’t try to run them over (I’m talking to you, Renee). Don’t bring a loaded firearm with a history of misfires to a protest and wrestle with federal agents (I’m taking to you, Alex). By the way, its so interesting how the gun control lefties are suddenly so pro-2nd Amendment when it suits them. This stuff really isn’t that hard.
You liberals are pathetic. IMHO anyone that interferes with law enforcement, whether you agree with them or not, deserves to be arrested or worse. ZERO SYMPATHY. You saw the video of the male nurse (that says something) who go shot attacking ICE and their vehicles before. Then he shows up with a weapon. Darwin award candidate.
Minneapolis and similar blue cities are why the US is in decline. We need to get back to our glory days and end the virtual signaling and support of every marginal minority.
Way to go, Minneapolis! Keep fighting the good fight.
And Somali’s represent 1.5% of MN residents and 0.8% of the US population. Approximately 10% to 11% of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients are foreign-born. The overwhelming majority, about 89% to 90%, of SNAP recipients are U.S.-born citizens.
Do you profess to be a Christian Hadley?
@Retired Gambler — Heard that before. “Just comply!” *gets murdered anyway*
Funny how the Karen’s, koolaid hairs, piercings, nose ring, etc crowds are setting up checkpoints hoping to identify ICE officers. These same nuts will tell you they don’t have to produce ID to cast a vote. Give Minnesota to Canada.
@Coffee Please — Nice caricature and *light* treason you got there. Nah, we’re keeping all 50. Then again, maybe it’s time to add PR, next round.
If you believe the City Council justified in refusing to renew liquor licenses: would you have agreed if the Montgomery, Birmingham and Albany city councils had done the same thing to motels where MLK stayed in the 60s? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If government power can be used to protect a point of view, it may well protect a point of view you find abhorrent. Be careful what you wish for.
Am I in the twilight zone or something – the commenters saying “if you follow the rules you won’t die”…first off, you shouldn’t have to die if you break a rule. Secondly…neither of them stalked / attacked the agents? Renee good didn’t drive into the agents, and Pretti was protecting a woman that ICE was attacking (multiple agents). Also why did ICE pull his gun and shoot him? He never unholstered.
What kind of propaganda is getting into right wing feeds? There are clear videos – watch it without sound or comments – it’s obvious that the death of Americans was from untrained Proud Boys with a trigger finger.
@1990
Use to read the San Juan Star paper for years. For the longest time the editorial’s were against PR statehood. Well now Puerto Rico is broke and wants a US buyout. Like they said back in the 90’s I say No Gracias.
So the city is supposed to follow the law but not ICE? Got it.
Blackhawk Down is a good source for travel info to Somalia.
@Retired Gambler
We should start with your Orange Messiah, when it comes to interfering with law enforcement. And you think anyone who interferes should be shot? It seems you would be a good candidate for the Darwin award yourself.
@jeffrey
Your analogy doesn’t work actually, because that was interfering with a private citizen, illegal under the 14th amendment.
@erg: Constitution does not apply to private individuals. In any event, 14th says nothing about interfering with a private individual. But, I forgive you–liberals dislike the law, preferring direct action to implement their beliefs into policy. Next time, nominate a better presidential candidate instead of bleating “vote blue no matter who”
What idiots!
Dallas, Houston, Austin it’s time to put a full court press on corporate relocations from MN. We’ve taken companies from IL, CA, NY. So MN should be simple enough. Investment capital is brutally objective. It goes where it is wanted. Flees from where it is punished.
Goose, gander: Fundamentally, this is saying that the liquor licenses are being denied because the businesses cause external harms to the community. The thing is this is routinely used to deny licenses for sexually oriented businesses. The right has been using it for decades, I have no problem with the shoe being on the other foot. Fix the law–but until then I think this should stand.
First, I see a lot of people here who think there is some justification for the Gestapo’s actions.
This isn’t about the number of illegals as Minnesota has well below the national average. This is purely punitive towards a blue state.
The fraud is alleged. Not proven. Some of the “proof” can’t stand the light of day (show a day care when it’s not open and pretend that means it isn’t operating etc.) I suspect some of it is real–Medicaid reimbursements are so low that there’s probably a lot of padding to stay in business–everywhere, not just there.
@ Rebel
yes high labor force participation, taking American jobs, undercutting wages and unions. Why do you think so many of those Fortune 500 want immigration? It’s even cheaper to import third world laborers than move the plant.
@Loren You are wrong about the liquor license issue here. This isn’t even really legal to do and I believe is 100% performative to get reactions like the one you gave. Eye for an Eye is not the way to be in life because then all you are is a MAGA weirdo.
You’re right about everything else though. There is zero justification for how some of these agents are acting and murdering people unnecessarily. It is 100% just Trump going after Ilhan because she is Somali.
There is also zero evidence being presented about any of these fraud claims other than “trust me bro”. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist but it has zero credibility behind it at the moment.
I saw a video today of a woman saying Somalians have bought 455 homes in some county and are using them as like nursing homes and billing the government fraudulently. Here evidence? Nice cars started showing up at the houses all of a sudden. I am not even kidding that was her evidence. Most of this is a performative joke from Trump to feed MAGAs hatred and sadly it works on them.
I have zero respect for those who think this is right. So, you’d be OK with a town removing the liquor license of, say, a gay-friendly hotel? How about a hotel that hosts Democrats (or Republicans) having a conference? This should not be justified just because you don’t Iike ICE. You f-ing hypocrite.
A business facility that is being used for illegal operations is having trouble getting or keeping a liquor sales license?
Given the drunk driving being done by DHS goons in Minneapolis and elsewhere in Minnesota when they aren’t playing Call of Duty pointing guns at unarmed parents driving to or from school on the streets of Minnesota, it’s understandable that responsible people don’t want the DHS goons to have easier access to alcohol at all hours of the day and night.
Hey Angry,
That “proof” in my book is better than”evidence” than what has been submitted for their reimbursement!!!!
Also many of you saps speak of “murder.” That is a legal construct and although you have jumped the gun yet again, no trial has been held , let alone the investigation(s) completed, but you fools have already pronounced these 2 tragedies murder -SMH.
Finally, Renee Good, intentionally or unintentional did strike the officer with her car and Pretti from prior videos kicking out the tail light of a vehicle does not present a picture of a non-violent non-interfering protester.
Why do you think Trump authorized the deployment of body cameras? Because documentary context is everything, and these were no innocents from what I have seen. But, if wrongdoing is captured by an agent, it will be captured and available for review. I and most agents support the notion of culling their ranks of any bad apples-they would bring disrepute upon the entire force.
Thus far, I have not seen it, just like I never saw any border agents “whipping” migrants at the border. It was all a lie invented by the Left wing media.
Name those police reports and apprehension of DHS drunk drivers and I will raise you a thousandfold the number of illegal immigrants caught committing this offense. With no real penalty.
Dems have truly devalued the safety of the general public. You know, there was a time in this country with MADD that the rate of this offense was being reduced but then came the flood of illegal immigration and the consequent tolerance of this and other lawbreaking by said illegals by blue and red jurisdictions and all hell broke loose. Red areas have gotten the message but Dem pols rather make everyone unsafe to boost their population numbers for the next census, lest they lose even more political power as those sane citizens are rushing for the exits of those deep blue states because it is getting harder and harder to pursue the American dream where your paycheck is gobbled up by more and more government mandates and taxes.
You reap what you sow.
Name those police reports and apprehension of DHS drunk drivers and I will raise you a thousandfold the number of illegal immigrants caught committing this offense. With no real penalty.
Dems have truly devalued the safety of the general public. You know, there was a time in this country with MADD that the rate of this offense was being reduced but then came the flood of illegal immigration and the consequent tolerance of this and other lawbreaking by said illegals in blue and red jurisdictions and all hell broke loose. Red areas have gotten the message but Dem pols rather make everyone unsafe to boost their population numbers for the next census, lest they lose even more political power as those sane citizens are rushing for the exits of those deep blue states because it is getting harder and harder to pursue the American dream where your paycheck is gobbled up by more and more government mandates and taxes.
You reap what you sow.
DHS has been ramming into cars, backing up into cars, driving into snow-mounds and onto curbs, knocking down road signs, smashing cars’ side mirrors and running into light posts and mailboxes all around Minnesota (and even a bit over around Hudson, Wisconsin) in a way indistinguishable from drunk drivers. This has even been happing in hotel parking lots where DHS goons have been staying.
…. and it can’t all be attributed to southern hicks unfamiliar with driving in winter conditions in the Upper Midwest as some minority of these DHS goons are from the Midwest even as most are from the South or coastal states.
Looking forward to Minnesota and other American protesters against DHS goon squads winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for fighting on behalf of liberal representative democracy, the rule of law and against Trump’s lawless regime goons.
Happening* in hotel parking lots
1 Person alleged — after all, he has not been convicted, let alone having stood trial, yet and may plead to lesser charges or having the case dismissed — all things championed by you on the left when you state that many of those arrested have no criminal conviction and yet were deported.
So, I will take 1/2,700 Feds over a like number of illegal aliens and I will take the odds that the latter group contains more transgressors, real or alleged.
People have been deported from this country without all these theatrics for many decades. This is all to create anger and rage so that media can sell ads for “blue vs red” and politicians can jocky for position. Im surprised election debates have not gone pay-per-view. People can be arrested and deported without masked men jumping out of unmarked vans. And ICE workers dont deserve to be treated with violence and denial of services because there is a new party in charge with different philosophy. They follow orders by our elected politicians. This escalation of rhetoric and violence is the pathway to becoming a $hi+ hole banana republic
P.s can more people flee the blue states? Houses are still very expensive…
“As for the two people who lost their lives, neither one is likely to be nominated posthumously for the Nobel Peace Prize. And it could be logically argued that if you do stupid things, like try to ram a Federal Agent with your car, or carry a firearm with additional ammo in a threatening manor in front of a Federal Agent, the outcome will not be good. For those who will dispute the gun issue, it would take less than one second to pull that gun from his waist.”
Totally correct. Renee Goode lost custody of her two oldest children because her new “husband” was using them as human ashtrays, putting out her cigarettes on them. The judge took custody away and gave it to the biological father when he learned that she didn’t intend to stop cohabitating with the abuser. And yes, she did try to run over the agent; slow-mo views show the wheels spinning and turning towards the agent who fired. Alex Pretti was terminated or quit, depending upon whom you believe, for increasingly unstable behavior at work. The reason he was shot was that the gun he was carrying misfired when a federal agent was taking it from his belt. The firearm in question had a history of misfiring, but that didn’t stop Pretti from purchasing it and tricking it out with Picattinny rails and stuff trying to look cool. The other agents then mistakenly fired in self defense, believing that Pretti was shooting at them. He wasn’t, but hey, go ahead and bring a faulty loaded weapon to a protest and see what happens.
I’m sorry that anyone has died. I hate the term, “good shoot,” because any shooting is a tragedy. However, there is also that term, “Eff Around and Find Out.” Both Goode and Pretti did both, with horrible consequences. Karma can be a really nasty lady.
When you are the next one who is denied a license, permit or government contract simply because or your job, doing your job or the job of the customer who walks in your door, will it still be ok?
Punishing the business for the job of their customers? Seriously? Nobody sees this as a precedent that goes completely wrong? Who’s next?
This doesnt “hurt” ICE, it hurts the business, the employees and the other customers.
City Councils being performative? Gee, where did they learn that?
Their mama never told them not to f@ck with a guy that has a gun!