U.S. Vice President JD Vance, showed up in Minneapolis on Jan. 22 using less inflammatory rhetoric than he did two weeks ago. now claiming he wants to “cool tempers” and “end the chaos” afflicting the city as a result of Donald Trump’s militarization of his vicious, antihuman immigration policy. Arriving in Minneapolis, Vance met first with ICE officials and then with local and community leaders, announcing that “the directive I got from the President of the United States is to meet these guys halfway,” referring to local leaders whom the administration claims are stonewalling and protecting illegal aliens rather handing them over to ICE, the Washington Post reported.
In a press conference following his roundtable meeting with local leaders, Vance insisted that the failure of Minnesota police and Department of Corrections to cooperate with ICE, including in making raids, was one of the major causes of chaos in the city. “Look,” he said, “I know a lot of the people here are peaceful, but a lot of you are not.” Police cooperation with ICE is essential, he added, because it “would lower the temperature,” and allow ICE to carry out its operations “in a more targeted way.”
