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Vice President JD Vance has absurdly complained that agents for ICE and other agencies don’t “feel safe” calling 911 as they raid the streets of American cities, apparently shooting and killing people at will.

In a post on social media Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reiterated the city’s position that the role of police is not to enforce immigration laws or “hunting down a working dad who contributes to [Minneapolis] and is from Ecuador.” The statement was made in response to President Donald Trump criticizing Frey for not using police to help hunt down immigrants.

“It’s similar to the policy your guy Rudy [Giuliani] had in NYC. Everyone should feel safe calling 911,” Frey said, referring to Giuliani’s policies to help protect undocumented immigrants as mayor of New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s, including upholding his predecessor’s sanctuary city policies. (Giuliani would later back Trump and defend Trump’s fascist immigration proposals during the 2016 election.)

In response, Vance said that federal law enforcement officers do not feel safe calling 911.

“How about federal law enforcement. Should they feel safe calling 911? Right now, they don’t, because you’ve told your police officers not to help them,” Vance said.

Vance’s statement is........

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