JD Vance

...elected law enforcement officials who could do a lot better job in making their lives a little bit easier, and in the process, they would make the lives of all Minneapolis residents easier, and that's what we want.

We want to be able to enforce the immigration laws on the one hand, while on the other hand, we want to make sure that people in Minneapolis are able to go about their day.

And I want to say just one last point on this.

I heard from a business leader today who told me a very tough story.

And I think so much of what's gone wrong in Minneapolis is people not trying to understand the perspective of somebody else.

Try to understand what somebody else is experiencing, whether they're a law enforcement officer or anybody in the community here in Minneapolis.

So they told me a story about this manufacturing facility.

Fake story alert.

Fake story alert from a sympathetic business owner, small business owner.

Went into the manufacturing facility.

All of a sudden...

An illegal immigrant shows up.

They don't know it's an illegal immigrant.

And then a bunch of ICE officers descend.

Now these people just want to go to work.

They want to go to work safely.

And now all of a sudden there's a major law enforcement operation happening right outside their place of business.

Now from one perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader or why an employee would say, well, what's going on?

It's a little scary no matter your position in life if a bunch of cop cars show up and they're arresting somebody.

Now, the additional context is that we know that people online have been encouraging illegal immigrants that one way they can evade arrest is by showing up at a legitimate place of business, making it impossible for these guys to actually enforce their immigration laws.