Minneapolis Democratic leadership is escalating its war of words against federal immigration authorities even as violence surrounding enforcement operations intensifies on the citys streets.
According to RedState, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have sharpened their attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the very moment agents are facing life-threatening assaults from radical protesters and criminal illegal aliens.
Recent confrontations have already turned deadly: Renee Good was shot and killed after she ignored law enforcement commands and then allegedly drove her SUV toward an officer, and on Wednesday night three assailants reportedly ambushed an ICE agent, beating him with a broom and a shovel.
Fearing for his life, the agent fired shots and hit one of the perps in the leg, an outcome that almost certainly prevented a far worse tragedy.
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released detailed information on the three alleged attackers, undercutting the narrative pushed by Walz and Frey that these individuals are simply harmless locals. These are the neighbors that Walz and Frey keep prattling on about, yet DHS records show they are Venezuelan nationals who entered the country illegally and were released into the interior under President Joe Bidens lax border policies.
A DHS briefing, highlighted in a social media post, stated: BREAKING: DHS releases the names & backgrounds of the three illegal aliens they say attacked an ICE agent in Minneapolis last night, leading to a shooting. All are Venezuelan illegal aliens who were caught & released at the border by the Biden administration. Per DHS: Julio The pattern is familiar: catch-and-release at the border, failure to appear in court, and then violent encounters with law enforcement in American cities.
Walzs speech Wednesday evening marked a new low, as he castigated ICEan agency created by Congress and charged with enforcing federal lawand appeared to flirt with encouraging citizen resistance to its operations. He delivered his remarks with visible emotion, seemingly on the verge of tears as he defended those who have been attacking federal officers rather than standing with the men and women tasked with protecting public safety.
RedStates Teri Christoph ripped that speech to pieces in her analysis, noting how Walzs rhetoric mirrored the lefts broader hostility to immigration enforcement. Frey, for his part, has been no more responsible, repeatedly telling ICE to get the f*** out of Minneapolis, as if a municipal mayor has the authority to nullify federal lawpro tip: he doesnt.
The facts emerging from DHS make the grandstanding by Walz and Frey look increasingly reckless and unserious. Conservative critics have long warned that demonizing ICE while shielding illegal aliens from accountability would invite precisely this kind of lawlessness, and the records of the three suspects bear that out. DHS identified Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, previously convicted for driving without a license and arrested for two counts of giving a false name to a peace officer, [who] was the subject of a targeted enforcement operation. This was not a random bystander swept up in some dragnet; this was a known offender whom ICE was specifically seeking to remove from the country.
Nor is Sosa-Celis presence in the United States some mystery of fate; it is a direct consequence of the current administrations border policies. Oh, and guess what? Mr. Sosa-Celis illegally entered the United States in August 2022 when a certain Mr. What Borders? Biden was president. Shocker.
A photo obtained by Fox News and circulated online shows Sosa-Celis apparently grinning in an ambulance after being shot in the leg, prompting the pointed observation: He thinks it's funny: NEW: photo obtained by Fox shows illegal Venezuelan alien smiling inside of an ambulance after being shot in the leg by an immigration agent last night in Minneapolis. ID'd as Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. DHS: At 6:50 PM CT on January 14, 2025, federal law enforcement officers That image has become a symbol, for many on the right, of the brazenness fostered by years of lenient enforcement.
The second suspect, DHS reported, is hardly more sympathetic. Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna, an illegal alien from Venezuela, illegally entered the United States in May 2023 under the Biden administration. After he failed to show up for his immigration hearing, he was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge. Rather than comply with that order, Ajorna remained in the country, ultimately surfacing in connection with a violent confrontation with federal officers.
The third alleged attacker follows the same troubling script, with the same political fingerprints. Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledezma, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who illegally entered the United States in May 2023 under the Biden administration. The Biden administration marked this illegal alien as a non-enforcement priority. In other words, the federal government itself had effectively signaled that Hernandez-Ledezma was not a priority for removaluntil he allegedly took part in an assault on an ICE agent.
As more information comes to light, the posture of Walz and Frey looks less like principled leadership and more like ideological theater at the expense of public safety and the rule of law. With each day that passes, and as the actual facts come out, Walz and Frey keep further exposing themselves as the violence-obsessed buffoons that they are, a sentiment that resonates with many conservatives who see in Minneapolis a cautionary tale about what happens when progressive politicians vilify law enforcement and romanticize illegal immigration.
The unanswered question now is whether voters in Minnesotaand across the countrywill continue to tolerate leaders who side rhetorically with lawbreakers while federal agents risk their lives to clean up the consequences of Washingtons open-border experiment.
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