President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (KFGO/WCCO) – President Donald Trump is taking aim at several Minnesota politicians over their alleged failure to comply with the federal government’s deportation efforts.
In a recent press release touting the president’s removal of “illegal immigrant killers and drug dealers,” Trump made specific mention of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, and the St. Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim for her role in protecting Minnesota immigrants.
The president called all three “sick politicians” for not cooperating with his administrations with deportation efforts.
“We do have a separation ordinance in St. Paul that really clarifies the City of St. Paul doesn’t have a role in enforcing federal immigration policy,” Carter says. “We never have and we never will.”
Carter says the new enforcement from the Trump administration is a threat to the city’s citizens.
“The president, to threaten our safe spaces, it’s not just a threat against immigrants in our community, it’s a threat against every single member of our community, because that makes the fabric of our community less safe,” Carter says.
Trump warned in the release that “vicious criminals will be free to roam our streets” if sanctuary cities continue to resist. His press release says that in St. Paul, “ICE has arrested a Sudanese national convicted of rape of a victim under 13, a Mexican national convicted of criminal sexual conduct against a victim under 14, and a Laotian national convicted of child endangerment and criminal sexual conduct against a victim under 13.”
The release from the White House continues to say that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison warns law enforcement of “liability if they enforce immigration detainers” and says protecting communities from violent illegal immigrant criminals is “not our job.”
“President Trump’s rhetoric makes law-abiding neighbors afraid to go to school, attend church, or even call 911,” Carter says. “By contrast, our Saint Paul officers solve murder investigations at twice the national rate and have cut violent crime by double digits.”
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the United States illegally, and those who don’t self-report could face fines or prosecution, immigration officials announced Tuesday.
Everyone who is in the U.S. illegally must register, give fingerprints and provide an address, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. It cited a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act — the complex immigration law — as justification for the registration process, which would apply to anyone 14 and older.
The announcement comes as the administration seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations of people in the country illegally and seal the border to future asylum-seekers.
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