Minneapolis Criticizes Large Federal Immigration Sweep (Full Transcript)

Name: Minneapolis Criticizes Large Federal Immigration Sweep
Uploaded: 2026-01-07T03:03:48+00:00
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Description: City official says the operation lacks coordination, targets immigrant residents, and is not focused on crime reduction despite falling crime rates.

City official says the operation lacks coordination, targets immigrant residents, and is not focused on crime reduction despite falling crime rates.

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[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

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In an interview about a large federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, the local official says there is little clarity or coordination about what the deployed agents are doing. They argue the operation is not aimed at reducing crime or preventing fraud but at creating chaos and intimidating immigrant communities. The official notes crime has been declining citywide and says the city has previously worked effectively with federal prosecutors on public safety. They accuse the Trump administration of targeting immigrants and engaging in racist political tactics, and they express solidarity with immigrant residents.

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Minneapolis Official Condemns Federal Immigration Operation

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Negative: The tone is confrontational and critical, emphasizing chaos, terrorizing immigrants, and accusations of racism, despite brief references to positive crime trends.

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Question 1:
What does the speaker claim is the real intent of the federal operation in Minneapolis?
Reducing crime through coordinated policing
Preventing fraud and improving public safety
Sowing chaos and intimidating immigrant communities
Conducting a routine census audit
Correct Answer:
Sowing chaos and intimidating immigrant communities

Question 2:
How does the speaker describe recent crime trends in Minneapolis?
Crime is rising across most neighborhoods
Crime is down across the board in most neighborhoods
Only homicides are down while theft is up
Crime data is unavailable
Correct Answer:
Crime is down across the board in most neighborhoods

Question 3:
Which federal partner does the speaker mention having worked with in the past?
The Department of Education
The US Attorney's Office
NASA
The Federal Reserve
Correct Answer:
The US Attorney's Office

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