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Dozens of Minnesota-based corporate executives issued an open letter this week urging an “immediate deescalation of tensions” after an immigration agent executed legal observer and ICU nurse Alex Pretti last Saturday.
The 79 CEOs and trade group leaders referred to President Trump’s terror campaign without naming it directly, citing “the recent challenges,” and claimed they have been hard at work “every day behind the scenes with federal, state and local officials to advance real solutions,” though they did not specify anything they had done. Instead, they said only that they “have been working for generations to build a strong and vibrant state here in Minnesota.”
They failed to mention that they were instrumental in bringing Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota, through their public support and active lobbying of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law allocated more than $170 billion over four years to deport one million immigrants annually. Congress had already appropriated $10 billion to ICE when the law dropped; the additional money nearly tripled its funding for 2025 alone to almost $29 billion.
Immigration agents have killed at least eight people and wounded nine more nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps.
The Big Beautiful Bill paid for what ICE acting director Todd Lyons called its “largest immigration operation ever,” including sending 3,000 agents to the Twin Cities—five times the number of Minneapolis Police Department cops.
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