Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has a new excuse for wanting ICE to leave the city. He claims the presence of ICE is disrupting the city’s economy.
Back in 2020, when BLM activists and Antifa were quite literally burning the city down, do you recall Mayor Frey releasing this type of message?
It’s apparently not a problem for the small business owners of Minneapolis to be completely terrorized by left wing radicals, but ICE agents enforcing federal immigration law is just a bridge too far.
Watch:
In addition to tearing families apart and terrorizing our neighborhoods, this massive ICE presence has also been horrible for Minneapolis business. We need ICE to leave so our economy can get reignited. pic.twitter.com/qpNHKHZzfU
— Mayor Jacob Frey (@MayorFrey) February 3, 2026
Breitbart News makes another great point about this. Through his sanctuary city policy, Frey has allowed the city’s economy to become sanctuary based. The enforcement of immigration law is actually bad for the city because of this:
Minneapolis Mayor: Law Enforcement Wrecks My Sanctuary City Economy
Frey’s complaint is plausible because Democrats have built the city’s economy on a peculiar institution — the government’s long-term delivery of many foreign workers, consumers, and renters. That historically bizarre foundation is fundamentally different from — and corrosive too — the typical free, level, and uniform marketplace rules that govern American citizens, whether they are employers or employees.
Minneapolis’s resulting “Sanctuary City Economy” enables and worsens many civic problems, including a high share of lower-productivity workers, and the conflicts caused by having residents with illegal, uncertain, or subsidiary legal status.
The city also struggles with two-jurisdiction communities, corrupt business practices, politicized agencies, patronage politics, high taxes, a pay-to-play political machine, scare politics, the loss of high-productivity jobs, large wealth disparities, private regulation, vigilante crime, low-income ethnic enclaves, political instability, and a pro-establishment media.
And of course, Frey has nothing to say about left wing radicals setting up their own checkpoints in the city, This can’t be good for the local economy.
Terrorists illegally barricade a Minneapolis street, igniting arguments with trapped drivers.
Brian O’Hara’s ‘control’ as chief? Nonexistent.
His city’s a chaotic mess under Democrat rule.pic.twitter.com/G0LoFXbt3d
— Kim “Katie” USA (@KimKatieUSA) January 10, 2026
Frey is being held hostage by his own voters and ideology. It is not ICE that is destroying Minneapolis. It’s him and the people who vote for politicians like him.
The best thing that could happen to the city is for him to leave office and let a serious person take over.
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