JD Vance

And then if it happened, whether there is a good explanation or a bad explanation.

Of course, if somebody violated the law, if somebody racially profiled, if somebody violated the rights of one of our fellow citizens, that is something we will take very seriously.

What I also would say is that many of the most viral stories of the past couple of weeks have turned out to be, at best, partially true.

So we want to try people based on reality, based on the truth, based on context.

We're not going to prejudge people just because of viral social media story that turned out to be half false.

So I haven't talked to Governor Walz on this particular trip.

A number of members of our administration, I believe our chief of staff, spoke to the governor and has been in constant contact with his staff over the past week.

We've been, in my office, in constant contact with people here on the ground in Minneapolis.

There were certainly people at our roundtable with opposing views.

And look, I don't even know whether it's public, but yes, we met with people with opposing views here at the roundtable.

I wanted to get a perspective from everybody, but also, of course, offer my opinion that with a little bit more cooperation, we could lower the chaos.

We're going to keep on doing that.

If Governor Walz wants to call me, we'll absolutely continue talking.

I will say that my sense of this situation, having talked to these guys for a long time, is this is primarily a law enforcement issue.

This is the Attorney General.

This is the local mayor.

This is all of the organs of local.

Like a domestic occupation with a federal agency that's completely out of control on the other hand.

Well, right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws.

And that's also, frankly, where we see the most assault of our law enforcement officers.