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Americans watched in dismay as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tried to pin half of the city’s shootings on federal immigration agents, a sensational claim that Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons rightly called “ridiculous” on Fox News. Lyons’ pushback was not polite equivocation; it was a blunt rebuke of overheated political rhetoric designed to inflame rather than inform. This isn’t about optics — it’s about protecting officers who put themselves between violent criminals and the public.
The tragic shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer has been weaponized by the left and their media allies as proof that federal law enforcement is the enemy, but the facts are more complicated than the protest slogans. Lyons told Fox that the officer had only milliseconds to react to a vehicle that was used as a weapon, and that the agent recorded the interaction because the team expected violence during an operation targeting dangerous criminal aliens. Hardworking citizens deserve a sober investigation, not immediate political theater.
Across the country, demonstrations erupted after the Minneapolis incident and separate shootings in Portland, and too many local leaders responded by reflexively denouncing federal agents instead of backing law and order. The Washington Post reported on the nationwide protests and the chaos in cities where federal operations were underway, underscoring that this is not a localized dispute but a national fight over public safety. Conservatives see a pattern: when officials refuse to cooperate with federal enforcement, law-abiding citizens pay the price.
Mayor Frey’s “deep mistrust” line and his claim that ICE accounted for 50 percent of shootings this year were politically charged and statistically dubious, prompting Lyons to call the assertion heated rhetoric. Pointing fingers at ICE ignores the reality that local authorities can and should work with federal partners to remove violent, criminal aliens from the streets before tragedies occur. If elected officials would stop posturing and start partnering, we wouldn’t be watching federal agents step into gaps created by soft-on-crime policies.
Homeland Security has said this has been its largest enforcement operation in the Twin Cities, with more than 2,000 arrests since December, a fact that should make politicians who cheer soft-on-crime policies uncomfortable. The arrests show federal resolve to tackle criminality when local systems fail to do so, and they highlight why cooperation between local and federal law enforcement is not optional — it’s essential. Instead of denouncing the boots on the ground, leaders should be asking why the criminals were free to harm their neighbors in the first place.
Patriots know that defending the rule of law means supporting the men and women who enforce it, not kneeling to every viral outrage or politicized narrative. We can demand accountability and thorough investigations while also standing with officers who face split-second life-or-death decisions on our behalf. Mayor Frey and other woke politicos should stop stoking division and start showing courage: secure the border, back local officers, and work with federal partners to keep our communities safe.
