Hayden Daniel writes for the Federalist about the likely impact of a recent Trump administration action.
Rather than stand firm, crush the blatant insurrection against federal authority in Minnesota, and emulate his hero Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump blinked.
Trump announced Monday that he had a “very good call” with Democrat Gov. Tim Walz and that the governor had requested they “work together with respect to Minnesota.”
That same day, Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey revealed he had also spoken with Trump and that they both “agreed the present situation can’t continue.”
That in itself doesn’t seem like a defeat for the president, but Frey revealed details that turn the entire situation on its head.
“Some federal agents will begin leaving the area tomorrow, and I will continue pushing for the rest involved in this operation to go,” Frey said. “Minneapolis will continue to cooperate with state and federal law enforcement on real criminal investigations — but we will not participate in unconstitutional arrests of our neighbors or enforce federal immigration law.”
Federal agents will begin to leave Minneapolis (according to Frey), and Minnesota authorities still refuse to cooperate with federal agents to uphold the constitutionally valid immigration laws of this country. It seems that, in the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s death, Trump lost his spine and decided to cave to the unfolding chaos in Minneapolis as well as the Democrats who engineered it.
He has signaled that Democrats can defy federal law any time they want and foment violent opposition in the streets to its enforcement by federal agents, and for their trouble, they’ll get a deal from the president.
In a briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted that Trump had three requests for Walz to help smooth tensions, which included requiring state leaders to “turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated” to federal authorities, requiring state and local police to “turn over all illegal aliens” they arrest, and requiring local police to aid ICE “in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes, especially violent crimes.”
