Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor continue ICE push backpublished at 12:50 GMT
12:50 GMT
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Frey says he wants the police to focus on keeping people safe rather than enforcing federal immigration laws
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have been very vocal in criticising ICE and its activities in the city, calling for the immigration agency to leave the state for the last month.
In a post on X yesterday, Walz said he made a promise to Alex Pretti’s parents “to continue to tell his story.
An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota”.
Following a meeting with “border tsar” Tom Homan on Tuesday, Walz said the state needed “impartial investigations, the departure of federal forces, and an end to the campaign of retribution against our state”.
Separately, Frey also posted on X, condemning Trump for saying the Minneapolis mayor is “playing with fire”.
The mayor said the job of the police is to keep people safe, “not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to MPLS & is from Ecuador”.
Homan described his meeting with the pair as a “productive starting point”.