Former President Barack Obama speaks out on ICE shootings in Minnesota: "This is not the America we believe in"
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Former President Barack Obama spoke out in a recent interview on the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings in Minnesota that took the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and addressed the state of the country. Nikole Killion contributed to this report. In:
Former President Barack Obama spoke out in a recent interview on the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings in Minnesota that took the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and addressed the state of the country.
Obama sat down with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen for a wide-ranging interview released on Saturday, providing detailed remarks on what he called the "unprecedented nature" of the ICE deployment of over 2,000 agents in an operation dubbed "Operation Metro Surge" to Minnesota without any clear guidelines and training.
"The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous," Obama said, pointing to agents pulling people out of their homes, using young children to try to bait their parents and tear-gassing crowds simply for standing there, not breaking any laws.
Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota is concluding, with a drawdown of federal immigration officers. Homan said the decision was made after reviewing two major factors: the multitude of "public safety threat" arrests the operation has yielded, and a steep drop in the need for federal officers to call in quick response force teams due to "agitators."
Obama said Americans pushed back on the operation because, "This is not the America we believe in," and the community organized by buying groceries for folks, accompanying children to school and having peaceful protests. He added that the sustained behavior in subzero weather by ordinary people is what should "give us hope." The former president said the way to restore norms, rules of law and decency is for people to pay attention and say "enough," and that citizens have ideas of what an American family should look like.
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