Woman Says People Cheered ICE in Minnesota Grocery Store: 'Really Excited'
By: Jenna Sundel (Newsweek)
The protests over the killing of Renee Good is not about immigration. The protests are about the jackboot tactics utilized by ICE. Crowd control and confronting protesters are not ICE's mission. And using trumped up excuses does give ICE authority to police protesters.
Stillwater township is a rural area on the eastern outskirts of St. Paul, located on the St. Croix River which is the border with Wisconsin. The city proper, Stillwater, is more suburban/urban than rural. The rural areas support deportation of criminal immigrants. Always have. But that support doesn't grant ICE the authority to police the civilian population. ICE has to stay within their jurisdiction and not infringe upon the authority of state and local law enforcement.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A TikTok user said people in a Minnesota grocery store were "clapping" and "chanting" in support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as they carried out a detainment.
The woman said the ICE operation was conducted at her local market, in a suburb near Stillwater. "Nobody in the grocery store stopped them from doing their job. Everybody was clapping and excited about ICE being there. People were hooting and hollering, you know, chanting for ICE," the woman said in a video, which has over 54,000 views.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reposted the video on X, saying that President Donald Trump and agency Secretary Kristi Noem "are delivering on the American people's mandate to deport illegal aliens."
"The American people, the law, and common sense are on our side, and we will not stop until law and order is restored after Biden's open border chaos flooded our country with the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens," DHS wrote.
Newsweek reached out to the TikTok user, "stina1120166." Newsweek also reached out to DHS for additional information and comment.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration is carrying out a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities. Protests have erupted in Minneapolis in response to the maneuvers, which have included two shootings by federal agents in the city in the span of one week.
Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to break up continuing protests in Minnesota. "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State," the president posted on social media.
What To Know
The woman said in the TikTok video that after the ICE agents completed their job, she offered to buy them food and a drink.
"I did. I sure f****** did. Because, you know what, I'm excited that ICE is in Minnesota. Really excited," she said.
The TikToker also said that she would not reveal which suburb she was in, but that it was close to the city of Stillwater, while adding in the caption, "We all cheered him on because they're doing their job. Thank you to our ICE agents for continuing to make Minnesota a better place."
What People Are Saying
TikTok user "stina1120166," in the video: "Best thing I have seen today is watching an ICE agent arrest somebody and send them back to where they came from. Love it. Super happy about it. Love the suburb I live in, because there was no protesting, nobody stopped them. Nobody did, because no one gives a s***. We want them gone."
Trump, on Truth Social: "Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden's HORRIBLE Open Border's Policy."
Minnesota Democratic GovernorTim Walz, on X: "Over the last week, we've seen federal agents arresting, threatening, and using force against innocent bystanders. They have carried out enforcement actions in schools, at hospitals, and in one horrific instance shot and killed someone."
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ICE enforces administrative immigration law. Deportation is not a criminal punishment. Immigration courts are not criminal courts. Enforcing criminal law is outside ICE's jurisdiction.
ICE really only has jurisdiction (and authority) to arrest and detain aliens for violating administrative immigration law and subsequent possible deportation.
it takes all kinds
Those who prevent ICE from removing illegals are worse than the illegals
The point is that the jurisdiction of ICE does not extend beyond removing illegals. The mission of ICE is to enforce administrative law concerning immigration. ICE agents are not police officers. ICE does not have the same law enforcement authority as FBI or Federal Marshals. ICE does not have the authority to engage in crowd control, confront protesters, or detain people for criminal violations outside of immigration law.
Law enforcement (the real police) in Minnesota does cooperate with ICE. State law prohibits police detaining someone beyond their official release for any reason. That's not a sanctuary law but that does prohibit detaining prisoners beyond official release for ICE. In Minnesota, law enforcement uses the practice of lobby transfers meaning ICE is informed of a prisoner's pending release and the prisoner is officially released from custody to a public space (like a lobby) where ICE can arrest the individual for immigration violations. There isn't an actual transfer of custody; it is a release from custody to a new arrest.
(The law prohibiting detention beyond official release was actually addressing a problem with prosecutors slow-walking bail release to convene a standing grand jury and prepare secondary indictments. A superseding indictment would nullify the bail release. The practice became so bad around 2010 that a request for bail release was almost pointless.)