President Trump stood behind ICE’s actions in Minnesota by highlighting some of the criminals apprehended, calling them “rough people.”
The president held up picture after picture of people arrested in Minnesota as he joined the White House press briefing on Tuesday.
The posters said, “Minnesota’s worst of the worst,” along with photos of them and a list of their crimes.
“These are all criminal illegal aliens that, in many cases, they’re murderers, they’re drug lords, drug dealers, they’re the mentally insane, some of them who are brutal killers,” he said.
The president railed against the protestors in Minnesota, calling them “paid agitators.”
He said of ICE agents, “All they want is to just get [migrants] out. They want to take them out of our country. And we’re met with paid agitators and insurrectionists, troublemakers. They’re paid.”
Mr. Trump said he “felt terribly” about the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent earlier this month. She was in her car when she was shot.
“You know, when the woman was shot, I felt terribly about that, and I understand both sides of it,” he said, but claimed the woman with her was a paid agitator.
“When she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming, ‘Shame, shame, shame, shame,’ right? So loud, like a professional opera singer, she was so loud and so professional,” he said. “I said, ‘That’s not a normal person. That’s a professional.’ These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that’s not happening because we have the hottest country anywhere in the world despite this.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added that 10,000 criminals have been arrested in Minnesota.
The president also continued criticizing Somalis in Minnesota over the massive fraud. Some 98 individuals in Minnesota have been charged with fraudulently obtaining federal funds to subsidize what appear to be fake child care centers. Of those charged, nearly 90 are from Somalia.
“Somalia is not even a country. They don’t have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it’s considered just about the worst in the world,” Mr. Trump said. “They come here, and they become rich, and they don’t even have a job.”
In connection with all that, he has repeatedly criticized two Minnesota Democrats: Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is of Somali descent.
