Minneapolis Criticizes Large Federal Immigration Sweep (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Let's just start with what they are calling in the Trump administration the largest immigration operation ever 2,000 federal agents deployed to your city secretary known there today Are you I mean, do you know what they're doing? What those agents are doing? Is there any coordination or even? Are they telling you anything?

[00:00:21] Speaker 2: I Don't think the agents know what the agents are doing. This is not about solving crime. This is not about preventing fraud This is about sowing chaos on the streets of Minneapolis, and that's what they are intent on doing right now I mean if the goal was to stop crime we have mechanisms to do so We've worked in the past substantially with the US Attorney's Office and by the way Driven down crime substantially crime is down across the board in virtually every neighborhood in the city Whether it's homicides assaults carjackings car thefts They're all down and if the Trump administration was looking to you know work on crime We would be supportive of that, but that's not what they're doing What they are doing is an intent to terrorize people in our city and specifically Target our immigrant neighbors and we're standing rock-solid with them. What the Trump administration is doing here is they are playing race games They are explicitly racist in a number of occasions here, and that's what they're trying to do on our streets