Federal government brings chaos to Minnesota with no accountability for actions

Editor:

What is going on in Minnesota has no relationship with the law or law enforcement.  It is performative cruelty by dress-up military actors behaving like an occupying force in a hostile environment, with no oversight and no accountability for their actions.

The administration’s stated reason for sending in immigration enforcement is because of fraud, allegedly committed by residents with a Somali background. It is important to note that 98 individuals have already been charged in the scheme, which could exceed $250 million. But none of the more than 2,000 immigration officers on the streets of Minnesota are investigating fraud.

Although $250 million is a lot of money it pales compared to the billions President Trump and his administration have defrauded from the American people. Mr. Trump has defrauded Americans with his cryptocurrency scheme, the brides for pardons fraud, and all his violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars of Venezuelan oil money Mr. Trump sequestered in an offshore account he claims he controls.

The list of fraud from Mr. Trump alone takes pages. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, spent $200 million of taxpayer money to purchase luxury jets for her personal and private use, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release.

Furthermore, when the state officials of Mississippi were found guilty, in a court of law, of defrauding the federal government and ordered to pay more than $1 million dollars in fines, the Trump administration reversed that decision. But I don’t want to get bogged down in both-siderisms.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that: Governments “derive their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”  The Immigration officers in Minnesota are not there with the consent of the citizens or their elected leaders. There was no increase in crime or civil disorder that required federal law enforcement’s presence.

And let me be clear, if there were a need for immigration officials to be in Minnesota, Minnesotans would ask for help. Minnesota has a long and successful history of working with federal immigration officials. But that is not the situation now. Federal agents have not communicated with or made any attempt to coordinate with state and local law enforcement. This is not law enforcement, it is dominance.

Further evidence that this is not a law enforcement activity is that since the federal immigration invasion of Minnesota, schools have gone remote, and businesses have closed.  People are afraid to go out, and residents of the city are terrified. Think about that, federal agents are intentionally creating chaos to terrorize the citizens. They are not making the city safer; they are intentionally and deliberately terrorizing the citizens.

The facts and the evidence are overwhelming. What is happening in Minnesota has no connection to the law or law enforcement. It is forced obedience to authority and to an authoritarian regime. That is why people are taking to the streets to protest.

William Fine

Brockport