After the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Minnesota people have had enough of ICE agents. Many demanded that the agency be defunded and that the ICE agents who committed the crime against the two victims be brought to justice. In response, Trump sent Tom Homan to deal with the issues, and he recently held a news conference where he shared his plan on how to handle the situation. During the event, a man asked Homan how many ICE agents were operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In return, Homan said that there were rotations, and instead of plainly stating the number of ICE agents active in Minnesota, he went on a tangent.
He said that ICE agents also go home to see their families and that they have not been welcome in Minnesota. He claimed that ICE agents could not even enter restaurants and had people spit on them, threaten them, and interfere with them. He then reminded the people that ICE agents are still human and added that he was planning to draw down, or reduce, the size of the operation. When the video was shared on social media, internet users tore apart Homan’s statement. Many did not care at all about how ICE agents were feeling after what they did in Minnesota.
One user said, “”They can’t eat at restaurants,” not even a week after the news story that ICE ate at a restaurant, and then abducted the staff. They aren’t human. They are monsters. Shut up, guy who accepts brown paper bags with $50k in cash in them. I hope for your sake you find something smarter to say to the ICC when you stand before them.”
Others, however, criticized Homan for the way he described ICE agents’ operations in Minnesota and for using militarized language. “You wanna act like they’re military at war, then let them eat MREs. The use of the phrase, “in theater,” tells you all you need to know. Law enforcement, even at the federal level, is not the military, this is not a warzone, and these are not enemy combatants. These are American neighborhoods and these are our friends and families and neighbors,” one commenter wrote.
Some users brought up heartbreaking stories of people who were targeted by ICE agents in Minnesota and pointed out how they weren’t given any sympathy by the government when they were targeted. “Any word on the 5 year old that’s in custody and very very ill? They don’t give a care… also the 56 year old man whose son took his heart meds to the facility and the ICE agents laughed at him? How many have died in custody? How many murdered in plain sight? SPITTING? They need to go to The Hague. All of them, and all the way up to and including Trump,” one user said.
