The White House singled out St. Paul’s “sick politicians” for not “protecting communities from violent illegal immigrant criminals” in a Tuesday memo.
The memo highlighted Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recent arrests of sexual predators in St. Paul—including a Sudanese national convicted of rape of a victim under 13, a Mexican national convicted of criminal sexual conduct against a victim under 14, and a Laotian national convicted of child endangerment and criminal sexual conduct against a victim under 13.
It then calls out Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, and St. Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim for their comments on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
“For the president to threaten our safe spaces, is not just a threat, and this is part of the thing we all have to understand,” Carter said in an interview with WCCO Radio. “It’s not just a threat against immigrants in our community. It’s a threat against every single member of our community because that makes the fabric of our community less safe.”
Ellison, meanwhile, warned law enforcement they could “risk significant civil liability if they enforce immigration detainers.”
“President Donald J. Trump is removing illegal immigrant killers, rapists, and drug dealers from our streets and sending them back where they belong—but if politicians in so-called ‘sanctuary’ locales had it their way, these vicious criminals would still be free to roam our streets,” the White House said.
Mayor Carter said this rhetoric from the White House “makes law-abiding neighbors afraid to go to school, attend church, or even call 911.”
No lies were told. Just the facts: some Minnesota "leaders" would rather protect criminal illegal aliens over their own citizens. https://t.co/6t1j9nGs7L
— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) February 26, 2025
U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., also weighed in on the spat, saying “some Minnesota ‘leaders’ would rather protect criminal illegal aliens over their own citizens.”
Anthony Gockowski
Anthony Gockowski is Editor-in-Chief of Alpha News. He previously worked as an editor for The Minnesota Sun and Campus Reform, and wrote for the Daily Caller.
