A few days before Alex Pretti was murdered, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem released a ridiculous statement.
We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals. In the last 6 weeks, our brave DHS law enforcement have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles, and incredibly dangerous individuals. A huge victory for public safety.
The numbers can't be verified because DHS won't release all of the names of those that have been arrested. What they HAVE done is release the names of 240 individuals they call "the worst of the worst." As I noted previously, the Minnesota Star Tribune analyzed the list and found that those with actual felonies were either in federal prisons (managed by federal - not state - authorities) or were transferred to ICE when their prison sentences were completed.
But the lies coming from DHS about their operations in Minnesota have become so ubiquitous that the state Department of Corrections has developed a web page, "Combatting DHS Misinformation" to document them. Here's what they wrote about Noem's claims:
DHS’s “Worst of the Worst” (WOW) website...allows users to search by state and city for “criminal illegal aliens that have been removed from their state.”
DOC quickly identified 68 cases in which individuals were lawfully transferred from Minnesota Department of Corrections custody directly to ICE, only for DHS officials to falsely claim these same individuals were “arrested” by waves of federal agents deployed into Minnesota communities...
What is troubling is DHS taking credit for “arrests” which are, in reality, state-to-federal handoffs occurring at prison facilities after individuals complete their state terms of imprisonment, as has been the long-standing practice.
Again, DOC is compelled to release this information because DHS continues to rely on these misrepresentations to justify expanded federal operations in Minnesota.
As just one example, Bovino said that the operation that was underway when Alex Pretti was shot involved a criminal illegal alien with a violent rap sheet that included domestic assault involving intentional bodily harm.
MN DOC officials reviewed public records and found "no felony commitments associated with this individual." Here's what they DID find:
DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.
So Bovino and his thugs were out trying to track down someone the Trump administration had released from federal immigration custody in 2018. Furthermore, the individual in question is Ecuadorian - which might explain why ICE agents attempted to illegally enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
It is important for all of us to recognize that the Trump administration isn't just lying about the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They're lying about the entire operation in Minnesota. They make up numbers about how many people have been arrested and claim they're deporting the "worst of the worst" when what they're really doing is simply what has always been done: those in prison who are undocumented are being turned over to ICE to be deported once their prison sentences are complete.
Meanwhile the entire population of the state is being terrorized by agents randomly grabbing folks because of the color of their skin or the sound of their accent in the hopes of finding someone who is undocumented to fill the quota set by Stephen Miller.
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