Woman says people cheered ICE in Minnesota grocery store: “Really excited”
A TikTok user said people in a Minnesota grocery store were “clapping” and “chanting” in support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as they carried out a detainment.
The woman said the ICE operation was conducted at her local market, in a suburb near Stillwater. “Nobody in the grocery store stopped them from doing their job. Everybody was clapping and excited about ICE being there. People were hooting and hollering, you know, chanting for ICE,” the woman said in a video, which has over 54,000 views.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reposted the video on X, saying that President Donald Trump and agency Secretary Kristi Noem “are delivering on the American people’s mandate to deport illegal aliens.”
“The American people, the law, and common sense are on our side, and we will not stop until law and order is restored after Biden’s open border chaos flooded our country with the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” DHS wrote.
Newsweek reached out to the TikTok user, “stina1120166.” Newsweek also reached out to DHS for additional information and comment.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration is carrying out a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities. Protests have erupted in Minneapolis in response to the maneuvers, which have included two shootings by federal agents in the city in the span of one week.
Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to break up continuing protests in Minnesota. “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” the president posted on social media.
What To Know
The woman said in the TikTok video that after the ICE agents completed their job, she offered to buy them food and a drink.
“I did. I sure f****** did. Because, you know what, I’m excited that ICE is in Minnesota. Really excited,” she said.
The TikToker also said that she would not reveal which suburb she was in, but that it was close to the city of Stillwater, while adding in the caption, “We all cheered him on because they’re doing their job. Thank you to our ICE agents for continuing to make Minnesota a better place.”
What People Are Saying
TikTok user “stina1120166,” in the video: “Best thing I have seen today is watching an ICE agent arrest somebody and send them back to where they came from. Love it. Super happy about it. Love the suburb I live in, because there was no protesting, nobody stopped them. Nobody did, because no one gives a s***. We want them gone.”
Trump, on Truth Social: “Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy.”
Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, on X: “Over the last week, we’ve seen federal agents arresting, threatening, and using force against innocent bystanders. They have carried out enforcement actions in schools, at hospitals, and in one horrific instance shot and killed someone.”
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