politics
January 22, 2026
JD Vance blames local officials ‘not cooperating’ with ICE for Minneapolis violence
Vice-president says ‘number one thing’ that would lower the temperature would be for officials to help facilitate ‘reasonable enforcement of law’
TL;DR
- JD Vance visited Minneapolis, attributing the city's chaos to a lack of cooperation between local and federal immigration authorities.
- Vance suggested that local officials could help ICE identify and arrest criminals, making operations more targeted and less chaotic.
- The Justice Department has subpoenaed state and local officials, including Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, as part of an investigation into alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement.
- Governor Walz stated his focus is on protecting the state's residents and accused the federal government of political retribution, not law and order.
- Vance dismissed reports of ICE aggression as overblown and called protesters disrupting ICE operations 'far-left agitators'.
- He cited Memphis and Austin as examples of cities cooperating with ICE, experiencing less unrest than Minneapolis.
- Vance claimed that lack of local cooperation forces ICE into dangerous street-level operations to arrest individuals with convictions, including for sexual offenses.
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