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Jacob Frey: “If the goal was immigration enforcement, Minneapolis and St…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 16:58

Mayor herr has approximately 600 officers in the city of St. Paul. The number of ICE agents and border control are now in the thousands. They are in the thousands. If the goal was immigration enforcement, If the goal was immigration enforcement, Minneapolis and St. Paul would not be the place where you would go. There are countless more people that are undocumented in Florida and Texas and Utah. Why are they in these much smaller cities in the middle of the Midwest? (16:58–17:10)

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Asserts that Minneapolis and St. Paul are not logical targets for immigration enforcement.

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