Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey opposes 'abolishing ICE' after telling agents to ‘get the f**k out’

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even as he sharply criticized the federal agency’s actions following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer.

His comments reflect his effort to clarify his stance amid heated political debates over immigration enforcement and federal-local relations.

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Minnesota and its two largest cities, Minneapolis and St Paul, have sued the Trump administration over the deployment of ICE agents into the state. The lawsuit followed the shooting and killing of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent. Illinois is also suing the administration.

The killing prompted Frey to slam ICE at a press conference, where he said, “Get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.” Frey made it clear that he is not calling for ICE to be abolished.

Despite widespread criticism of how the agency has acted in Minneapolis in recent weeks, Frey said he is not opposed to immigration enforcement as a whole.

“This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and it must stop,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters while announcing the lawsuit.

“These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct.”

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“I do not support abolishing ICE,” Frey said.

“However, I absolutely oppose the way that this administration is conducting themselves with ICE. Look, there are a number of entities presently, agencies at the federal government that are.”

“The lawsuit says that, hey, you know, ICE doing ICE stuff is not what we’re talking about right now. Again, we’ve had ICE in our city before, we’ve had ICE in our state before. It is the fact that, look, right now, there are, there’s about 3,000 federal ICE agents in our city between ICE and Border Patrol,” he said.

“You know how many police officers that we have? 600. The kind of duress that our city is experiencing because of this is magnified,” he continued.

Frey called the federal response to the Minnesota shooting inflammatory and criticized national authorities for prioritizing enforcement over community safety. He made it clear that Minneapolis is not opposed to enforcing immigration laws, but said the current approach is eroding trust and making residents feel less safe.