Minneapolis mayor slams ICE as ‘bullies,’ warns other leaders 'it will be your city that is next'
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warned fellow mayors at U.S. Conference of Mayors that the Trump administration could target their cities "next," urging them to speak out.
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The blue city Democrat went on to say the presence of federal agents in Minneapolis "is that bad," claiming people's constitutional rights "have been trampled." She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.
"Thousands of federal agents have descended on a city that has 600 police officers," Frey said. "People have been indiscriminately pulled off the street. Discrimination takes place only on the basis of are you Somali, are you Latino or are you Southeast Asian. American citizens have been yanked away from their homes … solely because they looked like they were from Mexico or Ecuador or Somalia."
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