Now this is a piece of news that one can write home about, and that's for sure and for certain. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the removal of 10,000 illegal aliens from the city of Minneapolis - including 3,000 just in the last six weeks. That's actually making Minneapolis safer.
PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS! We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals. In the…
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 19, 2026
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In the last 6 weeks, our brave DHS law enforcement have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles and incredibly dangerous individuals. A HUGE victory for public safety.
There is MASSIVE Fraud in Minneapolis, at least $19 billion and that’s just the tip of iceberg. Our Homeland Security Investigators are on the ground in Minneapolis conducting wide scale investigations to get justice for the American people who have been robbed blind.
MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.
More details emerged Monday:
More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minneapolis since the start of the second Trump administration, with 3,000 cuffed in the last six weeks alone, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.
“PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed in a post on X.
Those arrested, Noem said, “were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.”
This is a win no matter how you look at it. Remember, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) have prioritized goblins with criminal records, and getting those people - 10,000 of them, no less - is making Minneapolis and the surrounding environs safer, despite the best efforts of left-wing protestors who are trying to shut the ICE efforts down.
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Not that the protestors and rioters haven't caused problems. They've been in the way, every step of the way, since this whole campaign got started.
Starting just after Thanksgiving, DHS has launched what it frequently calls the largest immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis history in recent weeks, deploying around 3,000 agents from various agencies including ICE, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations and others.
This is, again, one of those cases where the only way out is through. This has to be done, and not only because it's the law, and the law isn't something where one can pick and choose which to follow and which to ignore. No, this has to be done because, by and large, these are people we don't want here. They entered the country illegally, they remain in the country illegally, and they have not only broken the law by entering, but many of them have broken laws since, some of them severe - robbery, sexual assault, murder.
Now, they're being rounded up and sent back to where they came from - or standing trial for crimes committed here, in these United States.
The roundup isn't over yet. It's going to get harder before it's done. But it's happening. And no, I'm still not tired of winning.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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