December 15, 2025 • 44 mins
Jon covers the Edina School Principal wanting to discipline students talking about ICE enforcement. Plus, USPS is upset ICE is staging raids in their parking lots and all the latest MN immigration controversies.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
An hour two.
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It's when the city's news talk. Hey I'm eleven thirty
one oh three five FM.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You know I have a start.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Let me see if I can find it really quick.
I do this every single year when I get to
the last week continuing the broadcast from the sixty five
to one carpet next day install studios. When I get
to the last week before I go on vacation, I usually,
and this happens every single year, I usually have a
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larger stack of what I call evergreen stories I than
I typically do. These are stories that they're not gonna
age right, and I can basically, you know, if I
don't cover them one day, I can cover them a
different day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It doesn't matter. They're not timely, That's what I'm trying
to say.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So typically I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna
cover all the stuff I haven't covered yet.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm gonna go through that stack.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Inevitably, something happens that there's too much news and that
doesn't end up occurring. So I do have some items
that I may get you. I'll throw this one in
here though real quick.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Three eye atlas. Remember that are you familiar?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Do you have any idea what I'm talking about, Brett,
Hopefully not asteroids again. Well it is okay, ease out.
The mysterious interstellar object flying through our Solar System is
apparently changing colors as it hurdles towards its closest pointed
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to Earth. Some are certain that it could in fact.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Be an alien spaceship heading our way.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Three Eye Atlas has already come quite close to Earth
once before, and it's been snapped by some of our
most up to date space satellites. However, one scientist continues
to say that the object is nothing natural and could
instead be a potential spaceship from another galaxy. I was
following this a lot more closely a couple of weeks
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back when it was making its way around the Sun.
I kind of lost interest in it. The theoretical physicist
to Avi Lobe has been convinced that three I at
List is not a simple comment hurtling through space through
our Solar System, and stead he believes it could in
fact be a form of transportation from an alien species
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scoping out planets. It's all really fascinating to watch. It's
a comment, it's not a spaceship. This guy's grab quite
a bit of attention, and.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It has made for really interesting commentary.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But apparently, though it's finally getting close to Earth, this
is what we've all been waiting for. Looking at a
new slew of images from satellites observing the object, AVI
said that the halo that surrounds the flying item is
turning different colors. This only adds to confusion about the
nature of the article as it spins along in its
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journey through our Solar system. Apparently, though, this is also
something that could end up taking place. Has the object
dispensed his heat as it travels through space and all
of that. So anyway, if we get I'll tell you,
I'll tell you this much. If it's confirmed that this
ends up being an alien spacecraft, while I'm on vacation,
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I'll do a bonus podcast from home to talk about it.
Just just want to let you know, just want to
I want to go and do want to go and
do my part, all right, got a lot of immigration
items that I want to get into.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Going to date.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
A detainee ends up leaving in an ambulance after an
ice rate in Chan has to We wouldn't have these
problems if it wasn't for the activist postal workers are
rallying against the ICE raids.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We have a principle an.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He died in public schools who has decided they're going
to suspend students who engage in First Amendment free speech
about ICE in order to protect the feelings of illegal aliens.
That's according to a post from Crime Watch Minneapolis. So
I want to get to these stories, but there's a
few items to sort of start off this conversation that
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go back to last week. First off, this has disappeared
from the news, and justifiably so.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Augsburg University is offering a.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Dramatically different account than the US Department of Homeland Security
about what transpired during the weekend arrest last weekend, not
this past weekend, but the weekend before of a criminal
illegal alien, registered sex offender by ICE agents in a
campus parking lot. So Alpha News ended up talking exclusively
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with the Augsburg Department of Public Safety officer who was
on the scene and witness firsthand what took place, saying
it was Augsburg's staff, not ICE agents, who escalated the situation.
And this is the problem is that you get this
upfront reporting mostly covering the activists that are causing all
of the problems that are making these already tense situations
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of ICE agents lawfully carrying out and executing warrants of
arrest over individuals who have broken the law. You have
bogus information that's put out about the background of the
individuals being arrested, and then when the truth comes forward,
it just gets ignored. In a statement posted on his website,
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Augsburg said the campus was deeply shaken by what it
described as aggressive tactics by ICE agents. Department of Homeland
Security confirmed the arrested individual, Heyesius Saucido Portio, calling him
a criminal, illegal alien, a registered sex offender, and someone
with a prior DWI arrest. You know, just the kind
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of person that democrats love to go out and defend
by protesting in below zero temperatures. According to the Augsburg
Department of Public Safety officer who was present and spoke
to Alphinus on the condition of anonymity, ICE apprehended Sacido
Portillo in an outdoor campus parking lot. He said security
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responded immediately because this fact had been watching ICE vehicles
entered on surveillance cameras, and that two ICE officials already
had the suspect in handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Whin.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The school administrator, identified by the officer as the director
of Resident Wife, Lee Hoover, arrived with campus security. She
wasn't going to let them put the person into the car.
To the security officer of Hoover, there was a refusal
to do that. She said, We're not getting out of
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the way. We're not going to cooperate. No, I'm gonna
venture against the Director of Resident Wife, Leah Hoover was
unaware of the background of this criminal, illegal alien, registered
sex offender, someone that had a prior DWI.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Does it matter though, I mean, would it have mattered?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Or is the message in the narrative more important than
holding criminals accountable for their actions. The officer said a
showed identification badges that showed they were federal officers, but
Hoover immediately began demanding a warrant and insisting that they
could not take the student. He said, Hoover instructed campus
security to block ICE, something he said directly violates policy.
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Our job is never to fight law enforcement. Ever, he said,
they were being directed by somebody who didn't have the
right to direct them.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He says that's when a second ICE vehicle arrived and
a supervisor approached Hoover with documents. He had a folder
with some paperwork he brought over. It was an ICE warrant. However,
Hoover still refused to allow the agents to leave with
the suspect. The officer said the situation was also escalating
because a masked man who arrived with Hoover was shouting
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profanities at ICE officers throughout the encounter. Again, this is
the perfect example of the activists that are causing the problems,
not ICE agents. At the time, the security officer said
he didn't know who the man was, but immediately sensed
that he would escalate the situation.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who is this guy? He's going to be a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do I have to get rid of him, he said,
He asked Hoover, who reportedly replied, Oh, it's fine, that's
my husband.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The story takes a turn.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
He's not staff, he's not a student, the officer said,
but for some reason he came with and was just
a complete agitator. The security officer said ICE repeatedly ordered
everyone to back up so agents could leave, but Hoover
and her husband refused, and he said that the resistance
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is what triggered the arrival of a third ICE team.
And again, none of these other teams would be necessary
if it wasn't for the activists, for the school, of.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
For the husband.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And yet this was the one of the people, This
was one of the individuals apprehended by ICE that your
Democrat representatives, your Democrat elected officials were talking about the
governor Tim Walls talking about citizens.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Are being snapped up by ICE.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then a third round of people came in and
that's when they came out with their guns and were
pushed out of the way. They weren't asking any more.
The officers said, so do you see the do you
see the progression here? You basically had one group of
ICE officials showing up in one vehicle. They face opposition
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from the director of Resident Life and her husband.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
More people show up, requiring more.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I sations to go and back up the existing ICE
agents as they refuse to allow ICE to go and
take this person away.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Never would have been a problem.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You just stayed out of harm's way, the officer said.
ICE was left with no choice but to push through
with weapons drawn to complete the arrest.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They should have been allowed to leave.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
They had a right to leave, he said, adding that
he was ashamed of how Augsburg's staff handled the situation
as not professional. Part of me was embarrassed to be
there to see stuff like that, he stated. The campus
atmosphere afterward. Treating the confrontation as heroic made it worse.
Once everybody left, there was this feeling around campus that
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administration and security were heroes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We stood up to the feds. We protected this student.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But in my mind, to the anonymous official from Augsburg,
we didn't protect anybody. We endangered people by allowing this
to escalate. Alf News reached out to Augsburg a University
and to Hoover for comment. The university informed Alphin News
that Hoover is on vacation to not be reached. Augsburg
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director of public relations and internal Communication did not respond
to the request from Alpha News. And they're repeated inquiries.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
We're to all ice protests yourself there, Hey, instead of
protest nice next time you get pulled over for the
cops or something, why do you press protest.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
In their face through get a speed t cart taken?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, why'd you go protest?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You know, your own cribs instead of somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Have a nice day.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
These the school administration person these people are mentally damage.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're not wrong here and think that we're not.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Going to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
You can't interfere, you can't get in the way, you
can't pull people out of vehicles, you can't physically engage
with ICE officers.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You can't do any of that. It's against the law.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So much for law and order.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
These it and again, ICE could easily go and hold
these other individuals accountable, and they don't, and probably for
good reason.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They are obstructing justice.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And I know there's an argument to be made where
everybody should be held accountable in these circumstances.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I get that, but ICE also has a job to do.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They're trying to keep people safe and are probably concerned
that if they go and start arresting individuals like this
director of Resident Life, if she is indeed obstructing, it's
going to end up adding fuel to the fire in
the moment, and charges that will most likely be dropped
by whoever the attorney is handling the case.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They have gone so far as to detain individuals who
have really been egregious by their standards and obstructed what
they are doing, but they've been letting those people go
to probably for the same reason why waste to tax
payer dollars in paperwork over these individuals when their core
mission right now is to arrest those here illegally that
have committed other crimes. We'll get into more of this
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coming up, including as reported by bringing Me the News,
I Dinah High School will discipline students making light of
ice threats. In a recent email, the principal, Paul Petzel,
said the school will enforce discipline up to an including
suspension for students making comments. We'll get to this coming
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up on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM. Twin City's News Talk Am
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eleven thirty one oh three five FM. You know, when
I figure out that I've officially landed in the sweet
spot relating to the Christmas spirit, that's when I actually
feel like I have to give myself a break from
Christmas music.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It happened this morning, like I had enough.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, I mean, I'll go back to it, you know,
I mean, I'll go I'll go back to Christmas music.
But there was a moment where I was like, you know,
I just don't want to I don't want to hear
Christmas music, right at this moment, and that hadn't been
like that the past few weeks.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I know you know you're fascinating to talk to. Are
you big on the Christmas music, Bret? Sometimes I got
to be in the right zone for it. Though I
love Christmas, No, I love I love Christmas time, It's fantastic,
I don't love this.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The principal of you Dinah High School says that it
will pursue disciplinary action against students making lights of actions
by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. I'm working off the
version here from Bring Me the News and an email
to students in their family.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The Dinah High School principal.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Paul Petzel said the school will enforce discipline up to
and including suspension for students who make comments making light
of immigration threats or referencing ICE in ways that cause
fear or humiliation. Let me just go ahead and read
you the letter I do want to share with you
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from Caro Levin. Postal workers are rallying against ICE. I'll
tell you why here in a moment, but I want
to give you an opportunity to respond to this before
we get to other Immigrations and Customs Enforcement news. A
letter from Dyna Public Schools. A principal says this High
School families, I want to speak directly and proactively about
the culture we are committed to creating at Dyna High School.
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As we continue to grow as a community, it is
essential that we are clear about the expectations we hold
for language and behavior that honor the dignity of every student.
That is a bold statement right now. There honor the
dignity of every student. What if a student acts in
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an undignified way? Who determines that? That's the bigger question
in this making lights. The letter goes on to say
of immigration threats or referencing ice in ways that can
cause fear or humiliation is a serious offense and not
representative of our core values. Enough with the core values nonsense,
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There is no core value. There is no collective core
value to the very reason why, in my opinion, this
Paul Psil, principally DYNA Public Schools is writing this, he's,
you know, referencing the diversity. The core values are incredibly different.
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Behavior of this nature fundamentally violates our commitment to providing
a safe and equitable other buzzword learning environment. Free from harassment, Wow,
free from harassment.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So is that all harassment?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
By the way, does that apply to criticism of any kind?
What if students are engaged in a conversation outside of
you know, when school was in session in the wake
of Avatar fire and ash, and they have a difference
of opinion over the quality of James Cameron's latest blockbusting,
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well potential blockbuster film.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Does that apply to you know, I'm criticism.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
If somebody were to call a student another name because
they don't agree with their assessment of a film, I'm
using a ridiculous example.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But that's what this is. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Such language and behaviors directly contradict He died in a
public school's vision and mission of what we expect from
our students. If this type of behavior occurs, we will
honor the discipline policy and move forward with the consequences
up to and including suspension. Our responsibility is to protect
every student's right to feel safe, respected, and valued at school.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So if anybody says anything and another student chooses, because
these are all choices, you're getting offended. You're not feeling safe,
you're not feeling respected, not feeling valued. That is a
choice that you are making to feel that way. Somebody
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may do something to bring about you making that choice,
but it is indeed still a choice. So does that
include all students who don't feel safe, respected, or valued
at school? Because if that's the case, you could potentially
have a lot of students that could be complaining about
a host of different issues and something that somebody else's says.
And based off of the infinite wisdom of Paul Patesel
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the principle dine in public school, apparently there's going to
be a lot of students getting suspended.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And again who decides that? Is he the cizar of
speech for all.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The schools, and he will determine who does or doesn't
get suspended based off of their language that may or
may not be inappropriate or may not a line with
his belief of what the core values are free from harassment,
What about free speech.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And all of this?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Is that not relevant orre we just tossing that right
out the window. We'll get to your talkbacks on this
in just a moment. Also, we'll share with you despite
bitter cold temperatures on Sunday, postal workers are protesting the
ice raids. They're upset because ice is staging its operations
on postal property. Last time I checked, the post office
is run by the federal government, in which case it's
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another federal government entity using.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Parking lots that are run by the federal government.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, we'll get to that. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
says ICE can make agreement with county commissioners, not sheriffs.
Some sheriffs are none too happy about that. This is
all coming up in the next segment of the show
here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty and.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
One three five FM. Do not go Anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The principal lovy Dinah High School says it will pursue
disciplinary action against students making light of actions by US
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. I don't know about you here
on Twin Cities News Talk as we continue the show
for a Monday from the six five to one carpet
plus next day install studios. But that certainly does not
seem to be a statement made from an individual who
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is a champion of the free speech in this Paul Putzel,
the principal ofviyd Dinah High schools, let's get to some
of your thoughts and we'll well also turn our attention
over to the postal workers rallying in Minneapolis against ice raids.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'm not sure how most people feel about it, but
I'm I'm of the belief that these kids, that these students,
they're miners. They don't have rights the same as like
majors do people over eighteen. So you start talking about
free speech and public school and all that clap, and
I'm not sure I want to make that argument because
kids are kids and they need to be told what
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to do, and more of I'm more of do it
could I sted soul kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Free speech does absolutely also cover miners as well. Now
there are varying degrees wherein it's balanced when it comes
to things like government interest or schools and education. But
this sort of mentality that the principle is perpetuating here
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regardless of that fact, I mean, this really does call
into question what is even free speech if the whole
point that he is making here an environment free from harassment,
safe and equitable learning. Let me give you another example
here of how you could frame this a different way.
You've had students that have been walking out of class,
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walking away from school in protest of what's been taking
place with ICE. Well, what if you're another student and
you know full well that these arrests that are taking
place are taking criminals off the street, even beyond them
being illegal. And so you have a handful of your
fellow students that are decrying and chanting against ICE, a
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group which use supports and you feel is making the
community safe, and that gives you a chilling effect that
makes you not feel valued. Are you then allowed to
go and complain and are those students going to be
disciplined for making you feel that way? There in lines
the problem with rediculous band aids like this, Let's go here.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Respecting every student's right to feel safe and respected. Let
me see, does he support men in girls boys and
girls sports? Does he let people choose their bathrooms based
on their gender identity, not on their physical gender, not
on their biological gender? Somehow I suspect that in those instances.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
He makes exceptions.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
This superintendent, if he.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Act, that's mark from your brighton honor.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
The discipline policy, call the thing what it is. You're
going to break out the jack boots. You're going to
take away free speech. You are only allowed to have
certain opinions in Adanah High School, apparently call these things
what they are. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't know. The principal's letter offended me. So what
are we going to do about that?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well, you're going to leave a talk back here on
Twin Cities News Talk and these are brought to you
from the iHeartRadio app by Lindahl Realty. But you're right,
if you're choosing to be offended, that's a choice that
you're making. And the president that this principle is putting forward,
it is so ignorant, lacking common sense and critical thinking,
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opening yourself up for lawsuits over who is going to
decide which type of language is appropriate and which type
of language is int appropriate. Consider a scenario, two students
are talking. They have different viewpoints on the issue of immigration,
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and because of that, one student goes and says, listen,
I absolutely support what ICE is doing. They're coming in,
I support their going and arresting individuals. And another student
just goes, I completely disagree with that. You're making me
uncomfortable that you feel that way based off of what
this principle said the supporter of ICE in this circumstance,
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because of how they made the other student feel. In
just eight but nine conversation sharing opinion, because neither of
these students have any power whatsoever to change the dynamics
of what is taking place via the lawful warrants that
are being executed by federal law enforcement officials. It is
just a conversation, but based off of what this principle
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put forward, the.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Student who supports ICE could face suspension.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I don't want to see this happen to any student,
but my gosh, there's a part of me that wants
to see this happen, just to watch the chaos that
would ensue if he actually made good on this threat.
Speaking of threats. Postal workers very upset and despite the
bitter cold temperatures from Caroleven on Sunday, not from Carolevin,
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just saying I'm the storage from Caroleven.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Despite the bitter cold.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Temperatures on Sunday, postal workers and other community members in Minneapolis,
they rallied against ICE because they've been using their facilities
as staging operations. Here's a bit of the coverage from
Caralevin here on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Postal workers who work at this powder Horn post office
and elsewhere in the Twin Cities are marching through South
Minneapolis and demanding that ICE no longer use these grounds
to stage any operations.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Another ice cold day in Minnesota isn't stopping these Minnesotans
from stepping outside to say ice agents are not welcome peted.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Most are postal workers who shared.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
These photos and videos with us of what they say
are ICE agents using the Lake Street and powder Horn
Post Office parking lots to stage operations over the past
two weeks. This test was led by Branch nine of
the National Association of Letter Carriers in Minneapolis.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
Powder Horn Post Office. They arrested somebody right in the
middle of where when we're bringing back our mail vans
with tended windows and body armor and guns. And it's
not you know, we shouldn't have to work in that
kind of environment. We want people to know that we
are not working with ice.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
We are in support of our.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What kind of environment. There's vehicles in your parking lot?
You're not being targeted? Is that enough just to have
vehicles around? And the vehicles aren't even I mean maybe
some of them are, but the vehicles that I've seen,
they've just been like black SUVs. I mean, there's not
like a tank sitting there in the Post Office parking lot.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is that enough though, to cause you concerned?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know what, all those ICE agents should be suspended,
I think now, because they've made all of these United
States Postal Service workers feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Immigrant coworkers and neighbors, and you know, we want to
see a society free of secret police.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
The Department of Online Security tells NBC that ICE agents
have arrested more than four hundred people in Minnesota since
December first, when they began Operation Metro Surge in the
Twin Cities in Minneapolis right Cotaine.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
It's not a secret police. Everybody knows who they are.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And again, that was a story from Caro Levin the
United States, Polstal Service is operated by the federal government, So.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Too bad, so sad.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Besides, Trump is actually doing those being arrested a favor.
I don't know why people don't view it this way.
Think about it for a moment. Those that are being
arrested by ICE, they're getting a free ride home for
the holidays. And because they're getting a free ride home
for the holidays, they're going to save a lot of
money on shipping presents.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's a Christmas miracle. Any reason for these idiots to
go and protest. I just.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Speaking of which last week this story. As immigration enforcement
activity continues to surge in the Twin Cities, so has
the number of people mobilizing to observe and document those operations.
Groups that help ice observers say interest in their training
programs has grown as enforcement actions increase in frequency and speed.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, yeah, people like to make money too.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Ryan Perez, he's with the Immigrant Defense Network and.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
COPAL, I don't know what COPAL is, says.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
The reality is most enforcements are over within a couple
of minutes, and so when you have people on every
single block in these Twin Cities and across Minnesota who
are trained to observe, they're able to respond in time
and do what exactly? Watch do you need training to observe?
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I mean, I didn't teach my kids how to look
at stuff. It just kind of happened. They didn't need
me sort of formal training on that front. They're agitators.
They're making the issue worse. Perez said the organization has
trained three thousand people so far. He said the goal
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of those observers is to document what they see and
serve as a visible presence during enforcement activity. And not
to impede on federal activity. Yeah, well, you know you
haven't done a very good job of that so far.
Our goal is to document, to pay attention, to document,
to serve as a presence there.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Observers aren't only affiliated with organized groups. Neighbors are also
coordinating among themselves, sharing information and responding when enforcement activity
is reported nearby. Andrea Morris set Grizzini, a Burnsville residence, says,
if we hear about something that is you know, we
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hear that there's activity in our neighborhoods, that we share
that information. Grizzini is part of a group of citizens
who communicate through group chats to alert one another to
enforcement activity, including an operation in Burnsville that happened earlier
in the week. It's a way of bearing witness in
these times. She said, I seem to be creating the
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most fear and intimidation among our neighbors. I thought cops
were the biggest bad guys, and why aren't they out
there doing the same thing when it comes to cops
going and arresting criminal sense just questions. Flannery Clark says
she's been organizing parents and neighborhoods in South Minneapolis after
hearing concerns from families about sending their children to school.
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My son attends a very diverse as South Minneapolis school.
It has a high immigrant to population, and probably about
a month ago, we started hearing rumblings that some families
were pretty scared to send their kids to school. Well,
are they here illegally? Because if they are, then they
really have only themselves to blame. If you made a
bad decision as a parent to be here illegally and
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have children here while you're illegal, then that's on you.
Clark organizes volunteers to take shifts during school drop off
and pick up a community events. Participants stand on nearby
corners with visible whistles, which she said are meant to
reassure reassure families. It's all again, it's all just theatrics.
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It's all just make believe, don't worry, You'll feel better.
Why because I got this whistle and I'm more than
happy to blow it for you. If there's parents or
community members standing in the school, we have visible whistles
to reassure them that that's why we're here. Well, sir,
you know, I'm sure that helps I'm sure that brings
about just a lot of ease within the community. Whistles.
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You know who's really benefiting from all of this. It's
a big whistle. I said in a statement the end
of last week. There's a growing trend of what they
call of what they call quote agitators and rioters that
are obstructing and assaulting law enforcement. Yeah, it's these individuals.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
It's hilarious on the news watching these observers.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Interact with ICE.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
They all have their cell phone out, believing that.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
Their video is going to change the course of history.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, and that's a good point that you're making, because
that's what a lot of this is. There is a
desperation out there by these activists to end up with
another George Floyd moment. And I believe that that the
people that have been putting themselves in harm's way are
attempting to do that for that very reason. They are
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hoping that ICE officials overstep their bounds. And it speaks
to the danger that they're creating beyond what ICE is
doing within these communities. I'll keep saying that they are
making the situation worse.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Curious as to whether these ICE arrest observers have other
jobs or are they getting paid to observe.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I'm wondering why.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
They're available at all hours to just show up when
they get the call.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
You're right, John, there is no talking to these people.
There's no getting anything into their thick skulls. It will
never be understood by them or accepted until one of
their children gets molested or murdered or taken or dies
a fentanyl or something like that because they can't grasp.
But they're not that bright, and it's just pathetic and
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what a whoosy hey, mister post office man man opu
little women wow.
Speaker 14 (35:02):
Jar Bill from Florida say, the only secret thing that's
out there is how the postal service can be so
inefficient and not get their work done in a timely manner.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's the secret I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Great day to you, John, I just realized that I
drive a black vehicle with mostly tinted out windows.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is that why my postal carrier.
Speaker 15 (35:26):
Can't get it right when they see it sitting in
my driveway? Is because they're uncomfortable marsnowflake behavior on a
twenty below.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Day docu lator.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Just want to mention too, that I would venture I
guess that not all postal employees feel the way that
this group of individuals did. I just had the laugh
of them complaining that Ice was staging in their parking lot.
Do you want to go and blame anybody, Go and
blame Minnieappos Man Baby may or Mom, Jeans, Jacob Fry,
go and blame the Minnie Apples, Police.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Jeeve, Brian O'Hara.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
They're the individuals who's said that Ice couldn't go and
use any of the parking that's already available. And just
like I said on the show, Ice is going to
find another place to go on stage, and so hey,
why not? This is government property, We'll use government property.
And now, of course you have individuals that are upset
about that. People are also upset about this. We have
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one more item, but before we turn our attention over
to fraud, and there's much to say coming up in
the eight o'clock hour over Walls creating his new cya
bogus not going to do anything joke of a fraud
prevention program. Yes, that's how I really feel, saying I
can just fix these things, don't I don't think you can.
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Here's one more item of a note, though, on the
immigration front, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison shared a legal
opinion that clarified which local authorities can enter into what
is called the two eighty seven g Agreements with ICE
and two eighty seven g agreements allows ICE to deputize
deputize local authorities to enforce immigration laws, but does not
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allow detentions based solely on ICE detainers. The Attorney General's
office stated that only county boards of Commissioners, not sheriffs,
can enter into these two eighty seven g agreements. Listen
all this does, though it makes the community less safe,
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it continues to undermine faith in our government institutions as well.
The opinion clarifies that two to eighty seven g agreements
do not authorize Minnesota law enforcement to detain individuals solely
based on ICE detainers, that they must comply with a
state arrest laws. So the Malax County Sheriff, Kyle Burton
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spoke to this very issue last week with Liz Collin
and her Weekly Alpha News of podcasts pushing back on
this opinion. Here's a bit of that interview.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
You know, I think failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I've always said that and so for for us, it
is more just preparation and anything we can do to
partner with our federal partners to make the county safer,
I think is a good thing.
Speaker 16 (38:13):
So there are three types of two eight seven g
agreements that you can enter into. You're in what's called
the task force model. Explain how that works.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, so you have three agreements you can enter into.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
You've got it like a jail model, which mostly involves
detaining of folks that are here illegally.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You've got to warrant, a warrant officer.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Model, and then you have the task force model, which
is what we're in, and that's more of a collaboration
between US and ICE agents. It allows us to go
out in the field and assist them in apprehending certain
individuals who they deemed to be kind of the most dangerous.
And you've heard, I'm sure representatives from DHS talk about
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our priority.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Right now is the worst first as far as.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Is how to tackle this problem we have in this
country of the amount of people that are here I
legally and certainly the worst source would be those who
are here not only illegally, but have also committed you know,
violent or atous crimes while they're in the country illegally.
Speaker 16 (39:14):
You know, sure if we were able to a company
ICE on a recent ride along, you could clearly see
how these partnerships are so valuable. In many states there
is that cooperation, not the case in Minnesota, but you
could see how these agents are basically then forced out
into the field, whether it's homes or businesses, rather than
just doing a pickup from the local jail. You have
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to kind of wonder that this is our attorney general
in Minnesota, our top law enforcement officer. I mean, that's
what the attorney general of any state is. So why
would they be against something like this that really centers
around safety.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
That's a great question, And you know, I think it's
the attorney general and the governor of Minnesota have both
been very much opposed to the president stats on legal immigration,
cracking down on border security. I mean, our governor has
been quoted publicly referring to you know.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
ICE agents as the Gestapo.
Speaker 11 (40:10):
Donald Trump's modern dayga Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets. They're in unmarked bands, wearing masks, being shipped
off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount of defense,
not even a chance to kiss the love one in Dubai,
just wrapped up by massed agents, shoved into those bands
and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So, you know, when you have that kind of rhetoric being.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Sent by top level officials such as the governor and
now the Attorney General, who is clearly not in support
of this program, it's troubling. I mean their political party,
they're both Democrats. It's no secret has very much not
been in support of, you know, the current administration's efforts
to secure the country. And the reality is the vast
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majority of America voted for this.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And again that was from Liz Colin and Alpha News
her weekly podcast, talking with Melax County Sheriff Kyle Burton
talking about Attorney General Keith Ellison's ordering of him not
to cooperate with Ice. Burton did refuse, by the way,
as the post on X had said, and I completely agree,
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this is what a real sheriff looks like, looks like,
this is what putting America first looks like. Probably my
biggest frustration with so many of the topics that we
talk about on a daily basis is the fact that
doesn't have to be this way when it comes to
illegal immigration. If we didn't have four years of Joe
Biden allowing millions upon millions of individuals to come into
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the country illegally, we wouldn't be in this position right now.
We have laws on the books for a reason. For example,
you know, across the country federally, if you're here illegally,
you're not supposed to be allowed to work. And yet
it happens people don't get held accountable. And then when
you have law enforcement officials trying to hold people accountable,
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the opposition.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
That they face.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
You know, it used to be from the activist organizations,
those that had their own motivations, power, influence, money to
go and be champions of lawbreakers. Well now that's what
the Democrat Party has turned into. If you allowed this
cross cooperation between our federal authorities and our local authorities,
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sheriff's office, local law enforcement, the community would be safer.
These executions of lawful warrants and the arrest of criminals
would happen faster. You would see less of a desire
for people to come in here illegally or commit criminal
behavior because they would be under the mindset appropriately so
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that here in the United States we enforce our laws.
And yet what the Democrats do in sowing this division,
this division, in disconnecting local law enforcement from federal law enforcement,
it perpetuates the very idea of what I just mentioned.
It tells the criminal, Hey, I got a whole party
that represents about half the country that is on my side,
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on the side of drug traffickers, child sex offenders, domestic abusers.
So you tell me what motivates an individual more when
they're at that point where they're going to commit an
active crime, the fact that they're going to get away
with it, or that they know that law enforcement's going
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to hold them accountable makes it a heck of a
lot easier to commit that crime. And you know, you
have almost an entire political party that's going to go
and defend you, or just turn the other way and
ignore what you're doing, which is exactly what happened here
with fraud in Minnesota. We will get to Governor Tim
(43:58):
Wallason his press conference last week, his new fraud prevention program,
and we have a.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Tzar, We have a Tzara fraud. We'll get to the details.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Got a lot of audio from Tim Walls and we'll
hear from you in the iHeartRadio app. The talkback's brought
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An hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's when the city's news talk. Hey I'm eleven thirty
one oh three five FM.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You know I have a start.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Let me see if I can find it really quick.
I do this every single year when I get to
the last week continuing the broadcast from the sixty five
to one carpet next day install studios. When I get
to the last week before I go on vacation, I usually,
and this happens every single year, I usually have a
(00:34):
larger stack of what I call evergreen stories I than
I typically do. These are stories that they're not gonna
age right, and I can basically, you know, if I
don't cover them one day, I can cover them a
different day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It doesn't matter. They're not timely, That's what I'm trying
to say.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So typically I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna
cover all the stuff I haven't covered yet.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm gonna go through that stack.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Inevitably, something happens that there's too much news and that
doesn't end up occurring. So I do have some items
that I may get you. I'll throw this one in
here though real quick.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Three eye atlas. Remember that are you familiar?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Do you have any idea what I'm talking about, Brett,
Hopefully not asteroids again. Well it is okay, ease out.
The mysterious interstellar object flying through our Solar System is
apparently changing colors as it hurdles towards its closest pointed
(01:30):
to Earth. Some are certain that it could in fact.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Be an alien spaceship heading our way.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Three Eye Atlas has already come quite close to Earth
once before, and it's been snapped by some of our
most up to date space satellites. However, one scientist continues
to say that the object is nothing natural and could
instead be a potential spaceship from another galaxy. I was
following this a lot more closely a couple of weeks
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back when it was making its way around the Sun.
I kind of lost interest in it. The theoretical physicist
to Avi Lobe has been convinced that three I at
List is not a simple comment hurtling through space through
our Solar System, and stead he believes it could in
fact be a form of transportation from an alien species
(02:19):
scoping out planets. It's all really fascinating to watch. It's
a comment, it's not a spaceship. This guy's grab quite
a bit of attention, and.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It has made for really interesting commentary.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But apparently, though it's finally getting close to Earth, this
is what we've all been waiting for. Looking at a
new slew of images from satellites observing the object, AVI
said that the halo that surrounds the flying item is
turning different colors. This only adds to confusion about the
nature of the article as it spins along in its
(02:51):
journey through our Solar system. Apparently, though, this is also
something that could end up taking place. Has the object
dispensed his heat as it travels through space and all
of that. So anyway, if we get I'll tell you,
I'll tell you this much. If it's confirmed that this
ends up being an alien spacecraft, while I'm on vacation,
(03:13):
I'll do a bonus podcast from home to talk about it.
Just just want to let you know, just want to
I want to go and do want to go and
do my part, all right, got a lot of immigration
items that I want to get into.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Going to date.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
A detainee ends up leaving in an ambulance after an
ice rate in Chan has to We wouldn't have these
problems if it wasn't for the activist postal workers are
rallying against the ICE raids.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We have a principle an.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He died in public schools who has decided they're going
to suspend students who engage in First Amendment free speech
about ICE in order to protect the feelings of illegal aliens.
That's according to a post from Crime Watch Minneapolis. So
I want to get to these stories, but there's a
few items to sort of start off this conversation that
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go back to last week. First off, this has disappeared
from the news, and justifiably so.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Augsburg University is offering a.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Dramatically different account than the US Department of Homeland Security
about what transpired during the weekend arrest last weekend, not
this past weekend, but the weekend before of a criminal
illegal alien, registered sex offender by ICE agents in a
campus parking lot. So Alpha News ended up talking exclusively
(04:33):
with the Augsburg Department of Public Safety officer who was
on the scene and witness firsthand what took place, saying
it was Augsburg's staff, not ICE agents, who escalated the situation.
And this is the problem is that you get this
upfront reporting mostly covering the activists that are causing all
of the problems that are making these already tense situations
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of ICE agents lawfully carrying out and executing warrants of
arrest over individuals who have broken the law. You have
bogus information that's put out about the background of the
individuals being arrested, and then when the truth comes forward,
it just gets ignored. In a statement posted on his website,
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Augsburg said the campus was deeply shaken by what it
described as aggressive tactics by ICE agents. Department of Homeland
Security confirmed the arrested individual, Heyesius Saucido Portio, calling him
a criminal, illegal alien, a registered sex offender, and someone
with a prior DWI arrest. You know, just the kind
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of person that democrats love to go out and defend
by protesting in below zero temperatures. According to the Augsburg
Department of Public Safety officer who was present and spoke
to Alphinus on the condition of anonymity, ICE apprehended Sacido
Portillo in an outdoor campus parking lot. He said security
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responded immediately because this fact had been watching ICE vehicles
entered on surveillance cameras, and that two ICE officials already
had the suspect in handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Whin.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The school administrator, identified by the officer as the director
of Resident Wife, Lee Hoover, arrived with campus security. She
wasn't going to let them put the person into the car.
To the security officer of Hoover, there was a refusal
to do that. She said, We're not getting out of
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the way. We're not going to cooperate. No, I'm gonna
venture against the Director of Resident Wife, Leah Hoover was
unaware of the background of this criminal, illegal alien, registered
sex offender, someone that had a prior DWI.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Does it matter though, I mean, would it have mattered?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Or is the message in the narrative more important than
holding criminals accountable for their actions. The officer said a
showed identification badges that showed they were federal officers, but
Hoover immediately began demanding a warrant and insisting that they
could not take the student. He said, Hoover instructed campus
security to block ICE, something he said directly violates policy.
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Our job is never to fight law enforcement. Ever, he said,
they were being directed by somebody who didn't have the
right to direct them.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He says that's when a second ICE vehicle arrived and
a supervisor approached Hoover with documents. He had a folder
with some paperwork he brought over. It was an ICE warrant. However,
Hoover still refused to allow the agents to leave with
the suspect. The officer said the situation was also escalating
because a masked man who arrived with Hoover was shouting
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profanities at ICE officers throughout the encounter. Again, this is
the perfect example of the activists that are causing the problems,
not ICE agents. At the time, the security officer said
he didn't know who the man was, but immediately sensed
that he would escalate the situation.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who is this guy? He's going to be a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do I have to get rid of him, he said,
He asked Hoover, who reportedly replied, Oh, it's fine, that's
my husband.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The story takes a turn.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
He's not staff, he's not a student, the officer said,
but for some reason he came with and was just
a complete agitator. The security officer said ICE repeatedly ordered
everyone to back up so agents could leave, but Hoover
and her husband refused, and he said that the resistance
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is what triggered the arrival of a third ICE team.
And again, none of these other teams would be necessary
if it wasn't for the activists, for the school, of.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
For the husband.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And yet this was the one of the people, This
was one of the individuals apprehended by ICE that your
Democrat representatives, your Democrat elected officials were talking about the
governor Tim Walls talking about citizens.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Are being snapped up by ICE.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then a third round of people came in and
that's when they came out with their guns and were
pushed out of the way. They weren't asking any more.
The officers said, so do you see the do you
see the progression here? You basically had one group of
ICE officials showing up in one vehicle. They face opposition
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from the director of Resident Life and her husband.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
More people show up, requiring more.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I sations to go and back up the existing ICE
agents as they refuse to allow ICE to go and
take this person away.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Never would have been a problem.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You just stayed out of harm's way, the officer said.
ICE was left with no choice but to push through
with weapons drawn to complete the arrest.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They should have been allowed to leave.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
They had a right to leave, he said, adding that
he was ashamed of how Augsburg's staff handled the situation
as not professional. Part of me was embarrassed to be
there to see stuff like that, he stated. The campus
atmosphere afterward. Treating the confrontation as heroic made it worse.
Once everybody left, there was this feeling around campus that
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administration and security were heroes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We stood up to the feds. We protected this student.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But in my mind, to the anonymous official from Augsburg,
we didn't protect anybody. We endangered people by allowing this
to escalate. Alf News reached out to Augsburg a University
and to Hoover for comment. The university informed Alphin News
that Hoover is on vacation to not be reached. Augsburg
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director of public relations and internal Communication did not respond
to the request from Alpha News. And they're repeated inquiries.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
We're to all ice protests yourself there, Hey, instead of
protest nice next time you get pulled over for the
cops or something, why do you press protest.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
In their face through get a speed t cart taken?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, why'd you go protest?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You know, your own cribs instead of somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Have a nice day.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
These the school administration person these people are mentally damage.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're not wrong here and think that we're not.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Going to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
You can't interfere, you can't get in the way, you
can't pull people out of vehicles, you can't physically engage
with ICE officers.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You can't do any of that. It's against the law.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So much for law and order.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
These it and again, ICE could easily go and hold
these other individuals accountable, and they don't, and probably for
good reason.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They are obstructing justice.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And I know there's an argument to be made where
everybody should be held accountable in these circumstances.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I get that, but ICE also has a job to do.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They're trying to keep people safe and are probably concerned
that if they go and start arresting individuals like this
director of Resident Life, if she is indeed obstructing, it's
going to end up adding fuel to the fire in
the moment, and charges that will most likely be dropped
by whoever the attorney is handling the case.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They have gone so far as to detain individuals who
have really been egregious by their standards and obstructed what
they are doing, but they've been letting those people go
to probably for the same reason why waste to tax
payer dollars in paperwork over these individuals when their core
mission right now is to arrest those here illegally that
have committed other crimes. We'll get into more of this
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coming up, including as reported by bringing Me the News,
I Dinah High School will discipline students making light of
ice threats. In a recent email, the principal, Paul Petzel,
said the school will enforce discipline up to an including
suspension for students making comments. We'll get to this coming
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up on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM. Twin City's News Talk Am
(13:52):
eleven thirty one oh three five FM. You know, when
I figure out that I've officially landed in the sweet
spot relating to the Christmas spirit, that's when I actually
feel like I have to give myself a break from
Christmas music.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It happened this morning, like I had enough.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, I mean, I'll go back to it, you know,
I mean, I'll go I'll go back to Christmas music.
But there was a moment where I was like, you know,
I just don't want to I don't want to hear
Christmas music, right at this moment, and that hadn't been
like that the past few weeks.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I know you know you're fascinating to talk to. Are
you big on the Christmas music, Bret? Sometimes I got
to be in the right zone for it. Though I
love Christmas, No, I love I love Christmas time, It's fantastic,
I don't love this.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The principal of you Dinah High School says that it
will pursue disciplinary action against students making lights of actions
by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. I'm working off the
version here from Bring Me the News and an email
to students in their family.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The Dinah High School principal.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Paul Petzel said the school will enforce discipline up to
and including suspension for students who make comments making light
of immigration threats or referencing ICE in ways that cause
fear or humiliation. Let me just go ahead and read
you the letter I do want to share with you
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from Caro Levin. Postal workers are rallying against ICE. I'll
tell you why here in a moment, but I want
to give you an opportunity to respond to this before
we get to other Immigrations and Customs Enforcement news. A
letter from Dyna Public Schools. A principal says this High
School families, I want to speak directly and proactively about
the culture we are committed to creating at Dyna High School.
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As we continue to grow as a community, it is
essential that we are clear about the expectations we hold
for language and behavior that honor the dignity of every student.
That is a bold statement right now. There honor the
dignity of every student. What if a student acts in
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an undignified way? Who determines that? That's the bigger question
in this making lights. The letter goes on to say
of immigration threats or referencing ice in ways that can
cause fear or humiliation is a serious offense and not
representative of our core values. Enough with the core values nonsense,
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There is no core value. There is no collective core
value to the very reason why, in my opinion, this
Paul Psil, principally DYNA Public Schools is writing this, he's,
you know, referencing the diversity. The core values are incredibly different.
(16:57):
Behavior of this nature fundamentally violates our commitment to providing
a safe and equitable other buzzword learning environment. Free from harassment, Wow,
free from harassment.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So is that all harassment?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
By the way, does that apply to criticism of any kind?
What if students are engaged in a conversation outside of
you know, when school was in session in the wake
of Avatar fire and ash, and they have a difference
of opinion over the quality of James Cameron's latest blockbusting,
(17:36):
well potential blockbuster film.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Does that apply to you know, I'm criticism.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
If somebody were to call a student another name because
they don't agree with their assessment of a film, I'm
using a ridiculous example.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But that's what this is. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Such language and behaviors directly contradict He died in a
public school's vision and mission of what we expect from
our students. If this type of behavior occurs, we will
honor the discipline policy and move forward with the consequences
up to and including suspension. Our responsibility is to protect
every student's right to feel safe, respected, and valued at school.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So if anybody says anything and another student chooses, because
these are all choices, you're getting offended. You're not feeling safe,
you're not feeling respected, not feeling valued. That is a
choice that you are making to feel that way. Somebody
(18:36):
may do something to bring about you making that choice,
but it is indeed still a choice. So does that
include all students who don't feel safe, respected, or valued
at school? Because if that's the case, you could potentially
have a lot of students that could be complaining about
a host of different issues and something that somebody else's says.
And based off of the infinite wisdom of Paul Patesel
(18:59):
the principle dine in public school, apparently there's going to
be a lot of students getting suspended.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And again who decides that? Is he the cizar of
speech for all.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The schools, and he will determine who does or doesn't
get suspended based off of their language that may or
may not be inappropriate or may not a line with
his belief of what the core values are free from harassment,
What about free speech.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And all of this?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Is that not relevant orre we just tossing that right
out the window. We'll get to your talkbacks on this
in just a moment. Also, we'll share with you despite
bitter cold temperatures on Sunday, postal workers are protesting the
ice raids. They're upset because ice is staging its operations
on postal property. Last time I checked, the post office
is run by the federal government, in which case it's
(19:56):
another federal government entity using.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Parking lots that are run by the federal government.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, we'll get to that. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
says ICE can make agreement with county commissioners, not sheriffs.
Some sheriffs are none too happy about that. This is
all coming up in the next segment of the show
here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty and.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
One three five FM. Do not go Anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The principal lovy Dinah High School says it will pursue
disciplinary action against students making light of actions by US
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. I don't know about you here
on Twin Cities News Talk as we continue the show
for a Monday from the six five to one carpet
plus next day install studios. But that certainly does not
seem to be a statement made from an individual who
(20:51):
is a champion of the free speech in this Paul Putzel,
the principal ofviyd Dinah High schools, let's get to some
of your thoughts and we'll well also turn our attention
over to the postal workers rallying in Minneapolis against ice raids.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'm not sure how most people feel about it, but
I'm I'm of the belief that these kids, that these students,
they're miners. They don't have rights the same as like
majors do people over eighteen. So you start talking about
free speech and public school and all that clap, and
I'm not sure I want to make that argument because
kids are kids and they need to be told what
(21:27):
to do, and more of I'm more of do it
could I sted soul kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Free speech does absolutely also cover miners as well. Now
there are varying degrees wherein it's balanced when it comes
to things like government interest or schools and education. But
this sort of mentality that the principle is perpetuating here
(21:54):
regardless of that fact, I mean, this really does call
into question what is even free speech if the whole
point that he is making here an environment free from harassment,
safe and equitable learning. Let me give you another example
here of how you could frame this a different way.
You've had students that have been walking out of class,
(22:17):
walking away from school in protest of what's been taking
place with ICE. Well, what if you're another student and
you know full well that these arrests that are taking
place are taking criminals off the street, even beyond them
being illegal. And so you have a handful of your
fellow students that are decrying and chanting against ICE, a
(22:41):
group which use supports and you feel is making the
community safe, and that gives you a chilling effect that
makes you not feel valued. Are you then allowed to
go and complain and are those students going to be
disciplined for making you feel that way? There in lines
the problem with rediculous band aids like this, Let's go here.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Respecting every student's right to feel safe and respected. Let
me see, does he support men in girls boys and
girls sports? Does he let people choose their bathrooms based
on their gender identity, not on their physical gender, not
on their biological gender? Somehow I suspect that in those instances.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
He makes exceptions.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
This superintendent, if he.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Act, that's mark from your brighton honor.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
The discipline policy, call the thing what it is. You're
going to break out the jack boots. You're going to
take away free speech. You are only allowed to have
certain opinions in Adanah High School, apparently call these things
what they are. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't know. The principal's letter offended me. So what
are we going to do about that?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well, you're going to leave a talk back here on
Twin Cities News Talk and these are brought to you
from the iHeartRadio app by Lindahl Realty. But you're right,
if you're choosing to be offended, that's a choice that
you're making. And the president that this principle is putting forward,
it is so ignorant, lacking common sense and critical thinking,
(24:29):
opening yourself up for lawsuits over who is going to
decide which type of language is appropriate and which type
of language is int appropriate. Consider a scenario, two students
are talking. They have different viewpoints on the issue of immigration,
(24:53):
and because of that, one student goes and says, listen,
I absolutely support what ICE is doing. They're coming in,
I support their going and arresting individuals. And another student
just goes, I completely disagree with that. You're making me
uncomfortable that you feel that way based off of what
this principle said the supporter of ICE in this circumstance,
(25:16):
because of how they made the other student feel. In
just eight but nine conversation sharing opinion, because neither of
these students have any power whatsoever to change the dynamics
of what is taking place via the lawful warrants that
are being executed by federal law enforcement officials. It is
just a conversation, but based off of what this principle
(25:38):
put forward, the.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Student who supports ICE could face suspension.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I don't want to see this happen to any student,
but my gosh, there's a part of me that wants
to see this happen, just to watch the chaos that
would ensue if he actually made good on this threat.
Speaking of threats. Postal workers very upset and despite the
bitter cold temperatures from Caroleven on Sunday, not from Carolevin,
(26:07):
just saying I'm the storage from Caroleven.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Despite the bitter cold.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Temperatures on Sunday, postal workers and other community members in Minneapolis,
they rallied against ICE because they've been using their facilities
as staging operations. Here's a bit of the coverage from
Caralevin here on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Postal workers who work at this powder Horn post office
and elsewhere in the Twin Cities are marching through South
Minneapolis and demanding that ICE no longer use these grounds
to stage any operations.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Another ice cold day in Minnesota isn't stopping these Minnesotans
from stepping outside to say ice agents are not welcome peted.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Most are postal workers who shared.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
These photos and videos with us of what they say
are ICE agents using the Lake Street and powder Horn
Post Office parking lots to stage operations over the past
two weeks. This test was led by Branch nine of
the National Association of Letter Carriers in Minneapolis.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
Powder Horn Post Office. They arrested somebody right in the
middle of where when we're bringing back our mail vans
with tended windows and body armor and guns. And it's
not you know, we shouldn't have to work in that
kind of environment. We want people to know that we
are not working with ice.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
We are in support of our.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What kind of environment. There's vehicles in your parking lot?
You're not being targeted? Is that enough just to have
vehicles around? And the vehicles aren't even I mean maybe
some of them are, but the vehicles that I've seen,
they've just been like black SUVs. I mean, there's not
like a tank sitting there in the Post Office parking lot.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is that enough though, to cause you concerned?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know what, all those ICE agents should be suspended,
I think now, because they've made all of these United
States Postal Service workers feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Immigrant coworkers and neighbors, and you know, we want to
see a society free of secret police.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
The Department of Online Security tells NBC that ICE agents
have arrested more than four hundred people in Minnesota since
December first, when they began Operation Metro Surge in the
Twin Cities in Minneapolis right Cotaine.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
It's not a secret police. Everybody knows who they are.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And again, that was a story from Caro Levin the
United States, Polstal Service is operated by the federal government, So.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Too bad, so sad.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Besides, Trump is actually doing those being arrested a favor.
I don't know why people don't view it this way.
Think about it for a moment. Those that are being
arrested by ICE, they're getting a free ride home for
the holidays. And because they're getting a free ride home
for the holidays, they're going to save a lot of
money on shipping presents.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's a Christmas miracle. Any reason for these idiots to
go and protest. I just.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Speaking of which last week this story. As immigration enforcement
activity continues to surge in the Twin Cities, so has
the number of people mobilizing to observe and document those operations.
Groups that help ice observers say interest in their training
programs has grown as enforcement actions increase in frequency and speed.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, yeah, people like to make money too.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Ryan Perez, he's with the Immigrant Defense Network and.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
COPAL, I don't know what COPAL is, says.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
The reality is most enforcements are over within a couple
of minutes, and so when you have people on every
single block in these Twin Cities and across Minnesota who
are trained to observe, they're able to respond in time
and do what exactly? Watch do you need training to observe?
(30:05):
I mean, I didn't teach my kids how to look
at stuff. It just kind of happened. They didn't need
me sort of formal training on that front. They're agitators.
They're making the issue worse. Perez said the organization has
trained three thousand people so far. He said the goal
(30:26):
of those observers is to document what they see and
serve as a visible presence during enforcement activity. And not
to impede on federal activity. Yeah, well, you know you
haven't done a very good job of that so far.
Our goal is to document, to pay attention, to document,
to serve as a presence there.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Observers aren't only affiliated with organized groups. Neighbors are also
coordinating among themselves, sharing information and responding when enforcement activity
is reported nearby. Andrea Morris set Grizzini, a Burnsville residence, says,
if we hear about something that is you know, we
(31:05):
hear that there's activity in our neighborhoods, that we share
that information. Grizzini is part of a group of citizens
who communicate through group chats to alert one another to
enforcement activity, including an operation in Burnsville that happened earlier
in the week. It's a way of bearing witness in
these times. She said, I seem to be creating the
(31:26):
most fear and intimidation among our neighbors. I thought cops
were the biggest bad guys, and why aren't they out
there doing the same thing when it comes to cops
going and arresting criminal sense just questions. Flannery Clark says
she's been organizing parents and neighborhoods in South Minneapolis after
hearing concerns from families about sending their children to school.
(31:48):
My son attends a very diverse as South Minneapolis school.
It has a high immigrant to population, and probably about
a month ago, we started hearing rumblings that some families
were pretty scared to send their kids to school. Well,
are they here illegally? Because if they are, then they
really have only themselves to blame. If you made a
bad decision as a parent to be here illegally and
(32:10):
have children here while you're illegal, then that's on you.
Clark organizes volunteers to take shifts during school drop off
and pick up a community events. Participants stand on nearby
corners with visible whistles, which she said are meant to
reassure reassure families. It's all again, it's all just theatrics.
(32:35):
It's all just make believe, don't worry, You'll feel better.
Why because I got this whistle and I'm more than
happy to blow it for you. If there's parents or
community members standing in the school, we have visible whistles
to reassure them that that's why we're here. Well, sir,
you know, I'm sure that helps I'm sure that brings
about just a lot of ease within the community. Whistles.
(33:02):
You know who's really benefiting from all of this. It's
a big whistle. I said in a statement the end
of last week. There's a growing trend of what they
call of what they call quote agitators and rioters that
are obstructing and assaulting law enforcement. Yeah, it's these individuals.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
It's hilarious on the news watching these observers.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Interact with ICE.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
They all have their cell phone out, believing that.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
Their video is going to change the course of history.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, and that's a good point that you're making, because
that's what a lot of this is. There is a
desperation out there by these activists to end up with
another George Floyd moment. And I believe that that the
people that have been putting themselves in harm's way are
attempting to do that for that very reason. They are
(33:58):
hoping that ICE officials overstep their bounds. And it speaks
to the danger that they're creating beyond what ICE is
doing within these communities. I'll keep saying that they are
making the situation worse.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Curious as to whether these ICE arrest observers have other
jobs or are they getting paid to observe.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I'm wondering why.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
They're available at all hours to just show up when
they get the call.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
You're right, John, there is no talking to these people.
There's no getting anything into their thick skulls. It will
never be understood by them or accepted until one of
their children gets molested or murdered or taken or dies
a fentanyl or something like that because they can't grasp.
But they're not that bright, and it's just pathetic and
(34:55):
what a whoosy hey, mister post office man man opu
little women wow.
Speaker 14 (35:02):
Jar Bill from Florida say, the only secret thing that's
out there is how the postal service can be so
inefficient and not get their work done in a timely manner.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's the secret I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Great day to you, John, I just realized that I
drive a black vehicle with mostly tinted out windows.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is that why my postal carrier.
Speaker 15 (35:26):
Can't get it right when they see it sitting in
my driveway? Is because they're uncomfortable marsnowflake behavior on a
twenty below.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Day docu lator.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Just want to mention too, that I would venture I
guess that not all postal employees feel the way that
this group of individuals did. I just had the laugh
of them complaining that Ice was staging in their parking lot.
Do you want to go and blame anybody, Go and
blame Minnieappos Man Baby may or Mom, Jeans, Jacob Fry,
go and blame the Minnie Apples, Police.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Jeeve, Brian O'Hara.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
They're the individuals who's said that Ice couldn't go and
use any of the parking that's already available. And just
like I said on the show, Ice is going to
find another place to go on stage, and so hey,
why not? This is government property, We'll use government property.
And now, of course you have individuals that are upset
about that. People are also upset about this. We have
(36:20):
one more item, but before we turn our attention over
to fraud, and there's much to say coming up in
the eight o'clock hour over Walls creating his new cya
bogus not going to do anything joke of a fraud
prevention program. Yes, that's how I really feel, saying I
can just fix these things, don't I don't think you can.
(36:41):
Here's one more item of a note, though, on the
immigration front, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison shared a legal
opinion that clarified which local authorities can enter into what
is called the two eighty seven g Agreements with ICE
and two eighty seven g agreements allows ICE to deputize
deputize local authorities to enforce immigration laws, but does not
(37:05):
allow detentions based solely on ICE detainers. The Attorney General's
office stated that only county boards of Commissioners, not sheriffs,
can enter into these two eighty seven g agreements. Listen
all this does, though it makes the community less safe,
(37:26):
it continues to undermine faith in our government institutions as well.
The opinion clarifies that two to eighty seven g agreements
do not authorize Minnesota law enforcement to detain individuals solely
based on ICE detainers, that they must comply with a
state arrest laws. So the Malax County Sheriff, Kyle Burton
(37:49):
spoke to this very issue last week with Liz Collin
and her Weekly Alpha News of podcasts pushing back on
this opinion. Here's a bit of that interview.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
You know, I think failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I've always said that and so for for us, it
is more just preparation and anything we can do to
partner with our federal partners to make the county safer,
I think is a good thing.
Speaker 16 (38:13):
So there are three types of two eight seven g
agreements that you can enter into. You're in what's called
the task force model. Explain how that works.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, so you have three agreements you can enter into.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
You've got it like a jail model, which mostly involves
detaining of folks that are here illegally.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You've got to warrant, a warrant officer.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Model, and then you have the task force model, which
is what we're in, and that's more of a collaboration
between US and ICE agents. It allows us to go
out in the field and assist them in apprehending certain
individuals who they deemed to be kind of the most dangerous.
And you've heard, I'm sure representatives from DHS talk about
(38:56):
our priority.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Right now is the worst first as far as.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Is how to tackle this problem we have in this
country of the amount of people that are here I
legally and certainly the worst source would be those who
are here not only illegally, but have also committed you know,
violent or atous crimes while they're in the country illegally.
Speaker 16 (39:14):
You know, sure if we were able to a company
ICE on a recent ride along, you could clearly see
how these partnerships are so valuable. In many states there
is that cooperation, not the case in Minnesota, but you
could see how these agents are basically then forced out
into the field, whether it's homes or businesses, rather than
just doing a pickup from the local jail. You have
(39:35):
to kind of wonder that this is our attorney general
in Minnesota, our top law enforcement officer. I mean, that's
what the attorney general of any state is. So why
would they be against something like this that really centers
around safety.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
That's a great question, And you know, I think it's
the attorney general and the governor of Minnesota have both
been very much opposed to the president stats on legal immigration,
cracking down on border security. I mean, our governor has
been quoted publicly referring to you know.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
ICE agents as the Gestapo.
Speaker 11 (40:10):
Donald Trump's modern dayga Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets. They're in unmarked bands, wearing masks, being shipped
off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount of defense,
not even a chance to kiss the love one in Dubai,
just wrapped up by massed agents, shoved into those bands
and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So, you know, when you have that kind of rhetoric being.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Sent by top level officials such as the governor and
now the Attorney General, who is clearly not in support
of this program, it's troubling. I mean their political party,
they're both Democrats. It's no secret has very much not
been in support of, you know, the current administration's efforts
to secure the country. And the reality is the vast
(40:53):
majority of America voted for this.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And again that was from Liz Colin and Alpha News
her weekly podcast, talking with Melax County Sheriff Kyle Burton
talking about Attorney General Keith Ellison's ordering of him not
to cooperate with Ice. Burton did refuse, by the way,
as the post on X had said, and I completely agree,
(41:17):
this is what a real sheriff looks like, looks like,
this is what putting America first looks like. Probably my
biggest frustration with so many of the topics that we
talk about on a daily basis is the fact that
doesn't have to be this way when it comes to
illegal immigration. If we didn't have four years of Joe
Biden allowing millions upon millions of individuals to come into
(41:41):
the country illegally, we wouldn't be in this position right now.
We have laws on the books for a reason. For example,
you know, across the country federally, if you're here illegally,
you're not supposed to be allowed to work. And yet
it happens people don't get held accountable. And then when
you have law enforcement officials trying to hold people accountable,
(42:04):
the opposition.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
That they face.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
You know, it used to be from the activist organizations,
those that had their own motivations, power, influence, money to
go and be champions of lawbreakers. Well now that's what
the Democrat Party has turned into. If you allowed this
cross cooperation between our federal authorities and our local authorities,
(42:31):
sheriff's office, local law enforcement, the community would be safer.
These executions of lawful warrants and the arrest of criminals
would happen faster. You would see less of a desire
for people to come in here illegally or commit criminal
behavior because they would be under the mindset appropriately so
(42:54):
that here in the United States we enforce our laws.
And yet what the Democrats do in sowing this division,
this division, in disconnecting local law enforcement from federal law enforcement,
it perpetuates the very idea of what I just mentioned.
It tells the criminal, Hey, I got a whole party
that represents about half the country that is on my side,
(43:16):
on the side of drug traffickers, child sex offenders, domestic abusers.
So you tell me what motivates an individual more when
they're at that point where they're going to commit an
active crime, the fact that they're going to get away
with it, or that they know that law enforcement's going
(43:38):
to hold them accountable makes it a heck of a
lot easier to commit that crime. And you know, you
have almost an entire political party that's going to go
and defend you, or just turn the other way and
ignore what you're doing, which is exactly what happened here
with fraud in Minnesota. We will get to Governor Tim
(43:58):
Wallason his press conference last week, his new fraud prevention program,
and we have a.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Tzar, We have a Tzara fraud. We'll get to the details.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Got a lot of audio from Tim Walls and we'll
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