Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York criticized what he described as the “resistance” to immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota, which he said has identified thousands of convicted criminals.
York appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday, following President Donald Trump’s press conference addressing illegal immigration in Minneapolis and St. Paul, known as the Twin Cities.
“How can it be that all the authorities in the state are fighting so hard to protect these criminals from federal law enforcement?” York said. “It’s a lot of people.”
“They also have a pretty radicalized population, and especially, we’ve seen this everywhere in the United States, college-educated liberal white women seem to have become more and more radicalized. They are certainly a part of this so-called resistance to ICE that we’re seeing in Minnesota,” York added.
Currently, 1,360 illegal immigrants are in Minnesota jails, but local authorities like Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have declined to turn them over. About 500 of these prisoners have outstanding deportation orders against them.
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Walz and Frey are under criminal investigations over allegations that they impeded federal law enforcement orders. Walz later dropped his reelection bid amid a welfare fraud scandal involving Somali residents across Minnesota and articles of impeachment filed against him.
Protests erupted across Minnesota over ICE officers’ actions and reached a boiling point after one officer shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother. Trump admitted Tuesday that officers are “going to make mistakes.”
