'Disappointed' Frey vows to appeal latest setback in bid to force ICE out of Minnesota

Source: The Hill

01/31/26 2:06 PM ET


Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) on Saturday said he and city officials were “disappointed” after a judge rejected Minnesota’s effort to prevent the Trump administration’s surge of federal immigration officers to the state.

“Of course, we’re disappointed,” Frey said in a statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network. “This decision doesn’t change what people here have lived through — fear, disruption, and harm caused by a federal operation that never belonged in Minneapolis in the first place.” He added, “This operation has not brought public safety. It’s brought the opposite and has detracted from the order we need for a working city. It’s an invasion, and it needs to stop.”

The mayor vowed to appeal the decision, saying the city “will continue to pursue the lawsuit to hold the Trump administration to account.” “The whole world has watched as we have become the epicenter of the Trump administration’s ire,” he wrote. “It needs to stop.”

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), along with the Twin Cities, filed the lawsuit before 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot last week by Customs and Border Protection officials. His death came weeks after 37-year-old Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident, was killed during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation. “While there is nothing that can bring back our neighbors, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Minneapolis will always honor their memories,” Frey said Saturday.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5716656-jacob-frey-minnesota-ice-surge-ruling/