Minneapolis Immigration Crackdowns, The Good and the Bad of the Good and the Bad
January 8, 2026
We, as in the USA, cannot have an incessant drip of a loss of valuable funds to keep our government going. Referring to drips like money lost due to fraud, illegal immigrants stealing and defrauding, etc. Basically, the feeling of euphoria some illegals get by treating the USA as though it was great big playground to milk for money, Land of Milk and Honey, well they are acting as though milking illegally is what that must mean.
In the process of the hey, that's enough, the lines in the sand have to be drawn, there might have been some developments and incidents that turned out had some awry or unexpected elements. For example, a prospective detainee decided to attempt to flee the scene, elude law enforcement, or even physically fight against them. In the process of the melee en segue, people have gotten hurt.
It does happen, laws of physics or events that weren't in tune with expected laws of physics, may happen from time to time that have injuries in the result, especially when physical contact is involved.
Law enforcement refusing to pursue or chase, or make physical contact, no firearm equipped, and other strategies designed to minimize possibilities of injury, when attempting to apprehend criminals in the ilk of the 'worst of the worst' might not be so wise, on the scales against the obverse. One obvious reason is that criminals who kill, might kill again, and that is not something worth the risk.
FYI since 1776, date of the Declaration of Independence, and going back further in the history of policing on a global level, it has been assessed that 'fleeing the scene', i.e. of an accident, crime or from police, or 'eluding law enforcement', like speeding away from a cop after being pulled over, should be and are generally illegal. Why?, standout answer, is, those actions can lead to very dangerous situations, like car accidents, rampages, accomplices showing up and causing havoc after a certain amount of time beyond when a potential arrestee should have been secured and detained, and so forth.
Recapping, fleeing the scene, eluding law enforcement, are illegal, against US law, and punishable crimes, of course, turning on police or law enforcement and attacking them, all the more illegal, and perhaps obvious.
Perhaps because of public fallout after a detainee got injured, such as Rodney King in LA, 3/1991, and George Floyd in Minneapolis 5/2020, combative and elusive behaviors may have gotten laxity in punitive responses being enforced.
But previous lack of enforcement, settling in as new folkways, does not not necessarily mean that the laws are not there anymore, and of course the common sense of why the laws were established in the first place.
It may be down to the fine points of the balancing act, of how much force is wise, counterbalanced with how much patience and leniency should be applied.
Again just because one guy got leniency, then 10 guys, then just about everyone in a county for the last 10 years, went without a crackdown, does not mean that one is free to go without a crackdown especially when necessary.
Of course there is the want for no one to be injured.
Think of it this way, the risk of being sued, the amounts of money involved in a typical suit, a law enforcement agent losing his or her job over a bullet discharged when they need the money from their job to feed their family, long careers coming to a close, mourning families, families splitting up (one side cop the other the injured),agency having tarnished reputation, funding halts affecting everyone, and a whole lot more drama, is not what law enforcement agencies want.
In the process of the hey, that's enough, the lines in the sand have to be drawn, there might have been some developments and incidents that turned out had some awry or unexpected elements. For example, a prospective detainee decided to attempt to flee the scene, elude law enforcement, or even physically fight against them. In the process of the melee en segue, people have gotten hurt.
It does happen, laws of physics or events that weren't in tune with expected laws of physics, may happen from time to time that have injuries in the result, especially when physical contact is involved.
Law enforcement refusing to pursue or chase, or make physical contact, no firearm equipped, and other strategies designed to minimize possibilities of injury, when attempting to apprehend criminals in the ilk of the 'worst of the worst' might not be so wise, on the scales against the obverse. One obvious reason is that criminals who kill, might kill again, and that is not something worth the risk.
FYI since 1776, date of the Declaration of Independence, and going back further in the history of policing on a global level, it has been assessed that 'fleeing the scene', i.e. of an accident, crime or from police, or 'eluding law enforcement', like speeding away from a cop after being pulled over, should be and are generally illegal. Why?, standout answer, is, those actions can lead to very dangerous situations, like car accidents, rampages, accomplices showing up and causing havoc after a certain amount of time beyond when a potential arrestee should have been secured and detained, and so forth.
Recapping, fleeing the scene, eluding law enforcement, are illegal, against US law, and punishable crimes, of course, turning on police or law enforcement and attacking them, all the more illegal, and perhaps obvious.
Perhaps because of public fallout after a detainee got injured, such as Rodney King in LA, 3/1991, and George Floyd in Minneapolis 5/2020, combative and elusive behaviors may have gotten laxity in punitive responses being enforced.
But previous lack of enforcement, settling in as new folkways, does not not necessarily mean that the laws are not there anymore, and of course the common sense of why the laws were established in the first place.
It may be down to the fine points of the balancing act, of how much force is wise, counterbalanced with how much patience and leniency should be applied.
Again just because one guy got leniency, then 10 guys, then just about everyone in a county for the last 10 years, went without a crackdown, does not mean that one is free to go without a crackdown especially when necessary.
Of course there is the want for no one to be injured.
Think of it this way, the risk of being sued, the amounts of money involved in a typical suit, a law enforcement agent losing his or her job over a bullet discharged when they need the money from their job to feed their family, long careers coming to a close, mourning families, families splitting up (one side cop the other the injured),agency having tarnished reputation, funding halts affecting everyone, and a whole lot more drama, is not what law enforcement agencies want.
These are just some of the figures from Criminal Alien Statistics provided by https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics (accessed and data used January 2026). The focus here is just year fiscal year 2025. From the presentation, "...a summary of U.S. Border Patrol enforcement actions related to arrests of criminal aliens for Fiscal Years 2017 - 2025."
FY Year 2025:
Conviction Type: Assault, Battery, Domestic Violence. Number: 704
Conviction Type: Driving Under the Influence. Number: 1,734
Conviction Type: Homicide, Manslaughter. Number: 23
Conviction Type: Illegal Drug Possession. Number: 979
In brief, in 2025, the CBP convicted, not counting those not caught, over 700 cases of assault, battery, domestic violence; over 1700 driving under the influence which is about an average of 5 to 6 of those drivers a day, every day of the year, moreover down from over 2800 cases the previous year; over 2 dozen homicides or manslaughters, and almost a thousand illegal drug possession cases, down from over 1500 the previous year. There are billboards out right now, January of 2026, letting everyone know, preschoolers that can read included, that fentanyl not even in the volume of the tip of a pencil lead, can kill you. Why would a thousand individuals be let free to roam the US with thousands of pounds of that substance, and others substances more dangerous than that, with the aim of distributing?
Needless to say, numbers anywhere near that, cannot continue.
Even if the numbers cited are not 100% accurate in everyone's book, they are a far far removed from single digit. Each life has value, so every life is taken seriously, so to speak as though lives are statistics may have deficiency; however, when developing best strategies for the health of a nation, all aspects may deserve to be at least looked at.
Posted by HCN.
