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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Minneapolis Mayor Frey Responds After Vice President Vance Blames Local Officials for Unrest VERTICAL [Watch (HLS stream): Minneapolis Mayor Frey Responds After Vice President Vance Blames Local Officials for Unrest VERTICAL](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/S1NjKMXA.m3u8) (5:02)  _Published 2026-01-23_ --- Jan 23, 2026 6:46 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Minneapolis Mayor Frey Responds After Vice President Vance Blames Local Officials for Unrest](/video/av8AWBaO/) ### Minneapolis Mayor Frey Responds After Vice President Vance Blames Local Officials for Unrest [Vance Defends ICE Agent in Minneapolis Shooting, Blames "Far Left" For Death ](/video/ltRGVhY7/) ### Vance Defends ICE Agent in Minneapolis Shooting, Blames "Far Left" For Death [Minneapolis Mayor Booed From Protest](/video/WuYOMWdZ/) ### Minneapolis Mayor Booed From Protest --- ## Transcript I wanted to meet with business leaders, with Ice officers, with local law enforcement, to try to understand a little bit better what's going on so that we can tone down the temperature a little bit, reduce the chaos, but still allow us, as a federal government to enforce the American people's immigration laws. That is the purpose of my visit. If you look at the context of what's going on, you understand that these people are under an incredible amount of duress, an incredible amount of chaos. And because of a few very far left agitators, a lot of these guys are unable to do their jobs without being harassed, without being doxed and sometimes without being assaulted. That's totally unacceptable. And that's one of the things that I want to send a message to is, yes, come out and protest, protest me, protest our immigration policy, but do it peacefully. You know, you asked a question about this five year old kid. I actually saw this terrible story while I was coming to Minneapolis. We just left Toledo, Ohio this morning for an economic message event. And I see this story. And I'm a father of a five year old, actually, a five year old little boy. And I think to myself, oh my God, this is terrible. How did we arrest a five year old? Well, I do a little bit more follow up research. And what I find is that the five year old was not arrested, that his dad was an illegal alien. And then they went when they went to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran. So the story is that Ice detained a five year old. When? What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five year old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America? If the argument is that you can't arrest people who have violated our laws because they have children, then every single parent is going to be completely given immunity from ever being the subject of law enforcement. That doesn't make any sense. No one thinks that makes any sense. Now, you you know, there are so many of these cases like that where if you just understand the context, there have been a number of situations that I've looked into personally where I say, wait a second, we don't want ice in arresting American citizens. They're supposed to be enforcing the immigration laws against illegal aliens. So then I look into it and I find out that the American citizen who was arrested took a swing at an Ice officer. You can't have that happen. And of course, they have to defend themselves. And of course, they have the right to detain somebody who assaults a law enforcement officer. Now, this is my point. Do we want these things to happen? Do we want these arrests to be so chaotic? No we don't. These guys want at least of all. But if we had a little cooperation from local and federal, excuse me, from local and state officials, I think the chaos would go way down in this community. So it sounds like JD Vance is taking a whole lot of my talking points, but not all of them. He said, quote, come out and protest, but do it peacefully. That sounds exactly like what I've been saying since the very first moments following the shooting of Rene. Good. Protest peacefully, but don't take the bait. Don't counter the chaos of Donald Trump with our own brand of chaos here. And so to the extent he's telling people to protest peacefully, we're in agreement. Second end quote, we want to enforce the laws on one hand, while on the other, making sure people in Minneapolis are able to go about their day. It sounds a lot to me like he wants to be mayor of the city. Only he's only been here for two hours where as we in this city have been working through these issues and this chaos for the last several weeks. Uh, peace is not spraying irritants and chemicals at peaceful protesters. It's not detaining a five year old. It's not dragging a pregnant woman through the streets. You achieve peace by working directly with communities. You lower crime by strategically going after people that have committed it. The vice president said he would love to be able to send some of these agents home. You know, there's no disagreement there. We've been encouraging that for weeks. So what's changed? What's changed is the response that we're seeing. What's changed is that we have 3000 plus Ice agents and border control that are on our streets without a clear plan. What's changed is we've got this huge influx of what feels like an occupation in a city in the upper Midwest. And what's changed is that they are arresting United States citizens. They are detaining people that have done nothing wrong. They're going after people exclusively based on the fact that they look like they're Somali, or they look like they are Latino. And no reason beyond that. What we are seeing is this is more about political retaliation. 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