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Conservative group blasts LinkedIn for removing pro-ICE post, labeling it 'hateful'
A conservative advocacy group is slamming the social media platform LinkedIn and conservatives online are threatening to ditch the site after the group’s post supporting President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown was temporarily removed in what the company called an error.
".@DHSgov is carrying out the essential task of keeping our country safe," State Freedom Caucus Network posted on Jan. 27 on multiple platforms including X and LinkedIn.
"Biden let over 10M illegal aliens enter our states, many being violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must ensure collaboration with ICE and CBP to remove them. Our caucuses are on the frontlines leading their states to support @POTUS’s mission to keep Americans safe!"
On Thursday, SFCN revealed a screenshot showing that while the post was allowed by X, it was flagged as "hateful speech" by LinkedIn and removed.
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"Apparently protecting children is ‘hate,’ but letting actual predators roam free is fine," SFCN wrote. "@elonmusk doesn’t censor us, but @LinkedIn does! We’ll be deleting our account as a result."
Conservatives on social media quickly began calling out the social media company, co-founded by liberal megadonor Reid Hoffman before he sold the company to Microsoft, where he currently sits on the board.
"Everyone delete LinkedIn," Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. "Just a garbage woke platform that provides little value."
"How is wanting pedos off the streets hateful?? ?? Why are you censoring Conservatives?? @LinkedIn," conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok posted on X. "DELETE YOUR LINKEDIN ACCOUNT."
A LinkedIn spokesperson pushed back, telling Fox News Digital: "This was removed in error, and we quickly corrected it."
Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told Fox News Digital he received a "removal notice" via email and after the situation was posted on LibsofTikTok, he received another email saying the removal was an error.
"Initially, your post was removed for going against our policies," Roth was told by LinkedIn. "As part of our review, we now find that your post doesn’t go against our policies and apologize for the mistake."
Roth told Fox News Digital, "Yeah, right."
"I guess wokeism is still alive and well, but we will continue to fight it. First step is to not engage on the LinkedIn platform ever again. Second step is to tell the world what they did."
Conservatives have long decried censorship and perceived bias on social media platforms and although the post was reinstated within a few hours of being taken down, Daniel Cochrane, Heritage Foundation Senior Research Associate at the Center for Technology and the Human Person, told Fox News Digital the situation represents the "predictable model" that Big Tech platforms often operate under.
"Censor first and then ask for forgiveness later," Cochrane said.
"While platforms nearly always claim a ‘mistake’ or ‘miscommunication’ content moderation systems and processes operate in a black box," Cochrane added. "The opaque nature of these systems leads to a dearth of accountability."
Cochrane went on to say that even if platforms aren't "explicitly targeting" a specific group or message, "liberal biases" can often be "baked into their algorithmic moderation systems disproportionately flag and demote conservative voices."
"Without greater accountability, the status quo of arbitrary censorship is a feature of Big Tech platforms, not a bug."
Famed filmmaker presses Democrats to put 'citizen-led' presidential primary first
NEWFIELDS, N.H. — Ken Burns, the esteemed filmmaker whose popular documentaries chronicle American history and culture, has a message for the Democratic Party.
Burns is urging Democrats to restore his home state of New Hampshire as the lead-off primary in the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) 2028 presidential nominating calendar.
New Hampshire had held the lead-off presidential primary for both Democrats and Republicans for a century, and while the GOP adhered to tradition in the last race for the White House, the DNC upended their calendar, placing South Carolina ahead of the Granite State.
The move was an unwanted distraction for Democrats during the 2024 primaries, and the DNC is now starting to discuss which states will lead off its 2028 calendar, when the party aims to win back the White House in the race to succeed term-limited Republican President Donald Trump.
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Burns, who lives in the small southwestern New Hampshire town of Walpole, wrote a letter to the DNC’s Rules & Bylaws Committee, which oversees the party’s primary calendar, on the eve of that panel's meeting in Puerto Rico to begin considering applications by New Hampshire and nearly a dozen states to hold an early primary in 2028.
"I'm writing to you today both as a Granite Stater who has witnessed firsthand how New Hampshire's First in the Nation Primary has helped move our democracy forward, and a historical filmmaker who, in this particularly challenging moment, is concerned for the future of our country and believes that New Hampshire's citizen-led, First in the Nation primary remains indispensable for this moment," Burns wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.
In the letter, which was first reported by WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, Burns emphasized, "I know of no people better suited to help begin the journey to maintain true freedom, to re-light that sacred fire, than the people of the Live Free or Die State. That's why we need New Hampshire's citizen-led, First in the Nation Primary, where everyday people can be heard. For in the strength of everyday citizens, there is no better or equal hope in our world."
Longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley, who's a member of the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee and is attending the meeting in Puerto Rico, told Fox News Digital that "Ken Burns is a beloved, internationally respected storyteller of America. Ken is trusted, he knows his stuff, he speaks with such clarity and authority that he gets people to sit up and listen."
"Ken makes a powerful statement in support of New Hampshire’s presidential primary that will resonate with my colleagues," Buckley predicted.
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National Democrats for years had knocked both Iowa — whose caucuses for 50 years led off the party’s nominating calendar until 2024 — and New Hampshire as unrepresentative of the party as a whole because the states have largely white populations with few major urban areas. Nevada and South Carolina, which in recent cycles voted third and fourth on the calendar, are much more diverse than either Iowa or New Hampshire. Nevada and South Carolina were added to the Democratic calendar two decades ago to increase the diversity of the early states’ electorate.
But New Hampshire Democrats have long pushed back, saying the state’s rich tradition of grassroots, retail politics, its well-informed electorate, its high percentage of voter participation and its longtime status as a key general election swing state make it the perfect locale to hold the first-in-the-nation primary.
After the DNC removed New Hampshire from the top of their 2024 calendar, putting the state second along with Nevada, the Granite State still moved to the head of the line. Adhering to a nearly half-century-old law that mandates the Granite State to hold the first presidential primary a week ahead of any similar contest, New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan scheduled the Democratic and GOP presidential primary contests for Jan. 23, 2024.
The Democratic contest, which was held before South Carolina and Nevada, ended up being an unsanctioned election, with the DNC banning the state's delegates from attending that summer's nominating convention. The DNC later made peace with New Hampshire, and reinstated their convention delegates.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee isn't expected to decide on the 2028 calendar until later this year.
The rival Republican National Committee, as Fox News Digital first reported last week, at its winter meeting took the first formal step in keeping the GOP's 2028 calendar the same, with the Iowa caucuses kicking off the nominating process followed by New Hampshire's primary.
New Jersey governor to launch portal for uploading videos of ICE tactics: 'They have not been forthcoming'
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, announced that state officials will launch a portal allowing residents to upload photos and videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducting federal operations.
Sherrill revealed the initiative during a Wednesday appearance on The Daily Show, Comedy Central’s nightly comedy news program.
"If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out, we want to know," Sherrill said.
"They have not been forthcoming," the governor continued. "They will pick people up, they will not tell us who they are, they will not tell us if they’re here legally, they won’t check. They’ll pick up American citizens. They picked up a five-year-old child. We want documentation, and we are going to make sure we get it."
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Sherill said her administration will soon be launching a portal so New Jersey residents "can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people" about local immigration operations.
A spokesperson for the governor, Sean Higgins, said Sherill's administration will release further details in the coming days.
"Keeping New Jerseyans safe is Governor Sherrill’s top priority and, in the coming days, she and Acting Attorney General Davenport will announce additional actions to protect New Jerseyans from federal overreach," Higgins said in a statement.
Sherrill also said that her administration intends to provide information to educate New Jerseyans on their rights in the state.
New York Attorney General Letitia James launched a similar portal in her state in October, saying state officials would review the videos and images uploaded to the portal to determine whether immigration agents violated the law. California officials also opened a portal last month for residents to report possible unlawful acts by ICE agents.
Some grassroots groups across the country have also been warning community members of reports of ICE activity, so migrants can avoid the area.
This comes after two killings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month. Both shootings were recorded by bystanders and sparked unrest in Minnesota and across the country.
Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, and Border Patrol agents on Saturday fatally shot Alex Pretti while he was recording immigration enforcement operations in the same city.
Pretti, an ICU nurse, appeared to be attempting to assist a woman agents had knocked down when he was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the ground and beaten, according to video and witness accounts. An agent was later seen pulling Pretti’s lawfully owned firearm from his waistband before other agents fired several shots, killing him.
Sherrill also compared ICE to secret police forces she observed in other countries when she served in the Navy.
"We saw people in the street with masks and no insignia. So not accountable at all, hiding from the population – and we saw again and again an undermining of what law enforcement should do to keep people safe," she said on Wednesday.
Democrats in Congress and in various state legislatures have sought for months to adopt measures that would ban immigration agents from wearing masks to hide their identities, arguing that such legislation is needed to ensure transparency.
Marjorie Taylor Greene defends arrest of Don Lemon on civil rights charges: 'That's activism'
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended the arrest of former CNN host Don Lemon Friday in connection to his coverage of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
"I don’t think that’s journalism. That’s not [the] First Amendment," Greene said of Lemon’s involvement Friday on "Real Time with Bill Maher."
On Friday, federal agents arrested Lemon and charged him with civil rights crimes, including conspiracy to deprive civil rights and interfering with religious freedom.
Lemon livestreamed left-wing agitators who stormed St. Paul's Cities Church on Jan. 18 under the suspicion that its pastor had collaborated with ICE.
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Greene appeared to be the sole defender of Lemon’s arrest on HBO’s late-night panel.
"It’s not good to arrest [Lemon]," Maher said.
The former congresswoman pushed back on Maher’s argument, citing the federal law that protects religious exercise at places of worship.
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"Well, I’m going to say he violated the FACE Act," Greene countered. "He went into a church, disrupted their worship and then later in an interview compared them to White supremacists."
"That’s not journalism," Greene asserted. "That’s activism."
"But does it warrant getting arrested?" Maher asked.
Greene went on to argue Lemon joined "activists" in "harassing people" in the middle of church, provoking children to cry.
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Meanwhile, Greene’s fellow panelist and MS NOW co-host Joe Scarborough took no fault with Lemon being "aggressive" in his reporting.
"I think there has to be sort of a differentiation between if somebody’s going in there and saying, ‘I’m not with them, can I ask you some questions?’"
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"Because you’re going to have embeds in war, you’re going to have embeds in protests," Scarborough continued.
He went on to claim Lemon’s arrest was intended by the Trump administration to "scare" other journalists.
On Jan. 19, Lemon offered his team’s explanation for how he became "the face" of anti-ICE protests in Minnesota.
"My producers said, ‘Don, you're a gay, Black man in America. And you have a platform, and you’re the biggest name,’" Lemon said on Jennifer Welch’s "I’ve Had It" podcast.
He went on to blast "racist, bigoted homophobes" for singling him out after covering the protest in Cities Church.
"Of course you're going to be the person that they single out, and they're gonna make the headline because it plays to their base, and their base is full of racist, bigoted homophobes like Nicki Minaj, by the way," Lemon added.
The former CNN host was released without bond and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Minneapolis on Feb. 9.
Trump unloads on ‘radical left’ as he stands by Kristi Noem amid immigration enforcement unrest
President Donald Trump offered renewed support for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday, saying she has done a "great job" amid ongoing nationwide immigration protests.
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump accused "radical left" activists of targeting Noem while touting what he described as historic gains in border security and public safety under his administration.
"The Radical Left Lunatics, Insurrectionists, Agitators, and Thugs, are going after Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, because she is a woman, and has done a really GREAT JOB!" Trump wrote Friday evening. "The Border disaster that I inherited is fixed, the violent criminals that were allowed into our Country through Sleepy Joe’s 'sick' Open Border Policy, are largely gone, or being strongly sought for purposes of removal, and the Murder Rate in the USA just reached the lowest level in history, 125 years!"
In a separate post, Trump praised border czar Tom Homan for doing a "FANTASTIC JOB" after sending him to Minneapolis this week to replace Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino. Trump has suggested Bovino did not adequately oversee the state’s immigration crackdown.
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Trump's comments come as Noem faces mounting criticism following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good during immigration enforcement operations by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Several prominent Democrats have recently called for her removal as DHS secretary, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., along with other House Democrats, are threatening impeachment proceedings if Noem is not "fired immediately."
Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have also publicly urged her removal.
On Friday, several University of Minnesota student groups led what they dubbed a "National Shutdown" in protest of federal immigration enforcement, with activists joining from across the country.
Trump accused Democrats of using protests as a distraction from what he alleged were widespread financial crimes involving billions of dollars in public funds.
"Republicans, don’t let these Crooked Democrats, who are stealing Billions of Dollars from Minnesota, and other Cities and States from all over the Country, push you around," he wrote. "They are using this aggressive protest SCAM to obfuscate, camouflage, and hide their CRIMINAL ACTS of theft and insurrection. They should all be in jail."
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The president’s latest message of support for Noem follows confirmation Tuesday that he has no plans to ask her to step down from her role.
"Is Kristi Noem going to step down?" a reporter asked.
"No," Trump responded.
Noem addressed calls for her ouster in an interview Thursday on "Hannity," saying "radicals" were targeting her.
"These radicals are attacking me, but I'm just doing my job. I'm following the law, enforcing the laws like President Trump promised that he would do to keep people safe in this country," she said.
Fox News Digital's Nora Moriarty, Anders Hagstrom and Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.
LAPD arrests violent agitators after protests erupt outside federal detention center in Los Angeles
Los Angeles police arrested multiple violent agitators after issuing dispersal orders as protests erupted across the city Friday evening.
Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center, where a mob of violent agitators swarmed the area, pushing a large construction dumpster and blocking the entrance to the building's loading dock.
LAPD shared video on social media of the unrest, adding in a separate post that authorities had deployed pepper balls and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
"We had hoped that demonstrations today would be peaceful, however, as you can see in this video, the violent agitators invited LAPD due to their actions," the department wrote.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said during a news conference Friday evening that five arrests had been made for failure to disperse. LAPD did not immediately confirm how many individuals had been arrested.
LAPD said one person was arrested after allegedly using a slingshot to fire hard metal objects at officers.
The unrest came as cities across the country took part in "ICE Out Everywhere" protests in the wake of the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good involving federal agents in Minneapolis.
Bass cautioned protesters rallying against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown to remain peaceful, arguing that violent unrest was counterproductive.
"I think the protests are extremely important, but it is equally important for these protests to be peaceful, for vandalism not to take place," Bass said. "That does not impact the administration in any kind of way that is going to bring about any type of change."
Bass asserted that violent protests are "exactly what I believe this administration wants to see happen." She added, "Don't be surprised if the military reenters our city."
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LAPD issued a dispersal order at around 5:45 p.m. local time, ordering all protesters in the area of Alameda Street between Union Station and First Street to leave or face arrest.
Police also placed the city of Los Angeles on tactical alert due to violent agitators on Alameda between Temple and Aliso streets.
While some protesters dispersed, others remained and continued to throw bottles and rocks at officers, according to the LAPD.
In addition, the department said that federal authorities were being hit with "debris, bottles and other objects," resulting in authorities declaring an unlawful assembly at the detention center.
"Protestors are actively fighting with Officers after multiple dispersal orders were issued," LAPD wrote on X. "Metropolitan Division is now on scene. Less than lethal has been authorized due to the violence against officers."
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., appeared at the protest earlier Friday, chanting, "ICE out of L.A." in front of officers wearing riot gear.
"What I see here at the detention center are people exercising their constitutional rights," Waters said. "And of course, they’re now trying to tear gas everybody. It’s in the air, but people are not moving."
In her own remarks, Bass also tied protests to the recent arrest in Los Angeles of former CNN host Don Lemon, who was charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and violation of the FACE Act for his involvement in the anti-ICE protest that disrupted services at a Minnesota church.
"Here you have a world renowned reporter, Don Lemon. No one questions that he is a reporter and for him to be arrested for doing his job and for them to attempt to restrict his ability to do his job, was just an egregious misuse of our justice system," she said. "And I think about this every day that this is the 250th year of our democracy, and I just wonder how much more our democracy will be eroded with this administration."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Government shuts down again after Democrats revolt over DHS funding
The federal government is shutting down for the second time in six months after Congress failed to reach an agreement on the yearly budget in time.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to notify federal agencies to begin shutdown preparations as early as just after midnight on Jan. 31 Unlike last time, however, the government is only entering a partial shutdown this weekend.
That’s because Congress was able to pass legislation fully funding some areas — the Department of Agriculture, the legislative branch, and the Department of Justice, for instance — while a majority of federal spending is still not set.
Senate Democrats walked away from a bipartisan deal to fully fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year FY 2026 amid fallout over President Donald Trump's surge of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis.
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Federal officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in the Midwest city during separate demonstrations against Trump's immigration crackdown. In response, Democrats threatened to hold up a massive federal funding bill that also includes dollars for the departments of War, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation and others unless funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were stripped out.
That means a prolonged shutdown could fuel airline delays, risk active duty troops missing paychecks, and even limit some Medicaid and Medicare services.
Senate Democrats struck a new deal with the White House that would fund all but DHS through Sept. 30, which is the majority of federal spending. DHS would be kept running with a two-week extension of current spending levels to give Congress time to hash out a compromise that would include stricter guardrails on immigration enforcement agencies under the department's purview.
President Donald Trump lauded the funding truce, which he struck with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in a post on Truth Social. He urged Republicans to support it, and warned that the "only thing that can slow our Country down is another long and damaging Government Shutdown."
Still, it was a bitter pill for some Senate Republicans who were already frustrated with the underlying, original package. A handful were angered over the billions in earmarks attached to the legislation.
And Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was enraged by the House’s inclusion of a provision that would allow senators to sue for up to $500,000 if their phone records were subpoenaed by former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
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"You jammed me, Speaker Johnson. I won't forget this," Graham said. "I got a lot of good friends in the House. If you think I'm going to give up on this, you really don't know me."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was able to quell opposition and advance the modified package with the help of Senate Democrats. Though the deal passed through the Senate, it still must be taken up in the House.
The House passed the original federal funding plan that Democrats walked away from in late January but must vote again after the Senate’s modifications.
That means the duration of this shutdown will hinge on how long it takes House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to corral Republicans and Democrats around the legislation next week.
Giants co-owner Steve Tisch responds after emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein included in latest DOJ drop
New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch addressed controversy surrounding his presence in the recently released files related to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.
Tisch released a statement through the Giants, claiming he never traveled to Epstein's infamous island.
"We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments. I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with," Tisch said.
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The Department of Justice's Friday release of more than 3 million documents related to the investigation of Epstein included email exchanges from April 2013 and June 2013 between Tisch and the convicted sex offender.
Some of the exchanges between Tisch and Epstein appear to show conversations about women.
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Tisch's family owns about 45% of the Giants. Alongside fellow co-owner John Mara, Tisch assumed control of the team in 2005 after his father had purchased a majority stake in the team in 1991.
Under Mara and Tisch's co-ownership, the Giants won two Super Bowls and recently hired John Harbaugh as head coach.
Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan federal jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019. His death was later ruled a suicide.
He faced up to 45 years in prison for crimes related to the sex trafficking of minors.
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'Border czar' Tom Homan sets the record straight about his mission in Minneapolis
"Border czar" Tom Homan pushed back against claims that President Donald Trump sent him to Minneapolis as part of a pullback of the administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
"If anybody thinks that Tom Homan, if President Trump, isn’t serious about immigration enforcement and having a mass deportation, then they weren't paying attention," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday.
Joining "Hannity" for his first interview since being sent to Minneapolis, Homan detailed his mission to defuse widespread unrest in Minnesota while making it clear there will be no surrender.
"To set the record straight, because my staff said they've seen a lot of people that say President Trump's backing off on his promise of mass deportation – that's just untrue," he said.
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"For people that want to misinterpret what President Trump sending me to Minneapolis means, then you're not paying attention," Homan said.
President Donald Trump dispatched Homan to Minneapolis this week to replace Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, whom the president suggested did not perform well overseeing the state’s immigration crackdown.
"Bovino is very good, but he's a pretty out-there kind of a guy," Trump told Fox News' Will Cain on Tuesday. "And in some cases, that's good. Maybe it wasn't good here."
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"Tom is fantastic. Tom is a tough guy, but I've watched over the years, and he's gotten along with governors, and he gets along with mayors," he added. "Some people don't. Some people just want to do their job and leave me alone."
On "Hannity," Homan revealed more about his "productive" meeting Tuesday with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
He said the leaders pledged to honor federal immigration detainers within Minnesota’s prison system, allowing officers to make arrests inside jails rather than searching for suspects on the streets.
"The more agents we have in the jails, the rest of these people in the safety and security of a jail, it's safer for the officer, safer for the alien, safer for the community," Homan explained.
Federal agents operating in neighborhoods to locate deportation targets have been a flashpoint for widespread unrest in Minnesota, with members of the public protesting their actions.
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"One agent can arrest a bad guy in a jail rather than sending a whole team to the community," Homan said. "And with all the hate and rhetoric attacks, then we've got to send another team for security."
"What one agent can do in a jail, we got to send 15 or 16 guys to do," he added.
Homan said if Walz and Frey follow through on their pledge of cooperation, the number of federal agents in Minnesota could be reduced.
"We can draw down on the number of agents there, because we're in the jails," he said.
While Homan said his goal is to calm tensions in Minnesota amid unrest over the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, he stressed that his leadership would not waver.
"We're going to have a mass deportation, but we're going to prioritize the arrest of criminals and public safety threats," he said.
"If you're in a country illegally, you're not off the table. We’ll find you, too, and deport you, too."
Girl caught on video pulling single square as 63,000-beer-coaster tower for Guinness World Records collapses
That's one way to bring the house down.
A towering beer coaster structure built from 63,000 pieces collapsed in dramatic fashion after a young girl removed a single one, stunning onlookers and racking up millions of views in a viral video filmed at a shopping center in Cologne, Germany.
The massive installation was created by German artist Benjamin Klapper, who spent more than a month assembling the sculpture in a bid to break a Guinness World Record.
Video of the collapse, which shows the structure tumbling like a house of cards, quickly spread like wildfire online.
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"In total, I spent about 120 hours constructing the sculpture," Klapper, 49, told Jam Press, describing the painstaking process behind the installation, which he titled Inside.
Klapper said the structure was erected inside the Rhein-Center shopping mall and was originally intended to challenge the record for the largest drink coaster construction ever built.
Video shows the girl carefully pulling a coaster from the tower before the entire structure cascades downward in seconds, prompting audible reactions from spectators.
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However, the collapse was not as it initially appeared.
Klapper told Jam Press that the tower had partially collapsed under its own weight shortly before completion, preventing him from officially qualifying for the record. As a result, he then invited visitors to interact with the remaining structure.
"Each person took a turn removing a beer mat from the structure until it fell," Klapper said. "The winner was the daughter of one of my helpers."
"She brought ‘Inside’ down on her first attempt by pulling out one that was lying horizontally," he added.
The artist said the viral clip sparked a wide range of reactions online, with some viewers questioning the authenticity of the footage and others lamenting the destruction of the elaborate build.
"The footage of this roller-coaster drop amassed millions of views," Klapper told Jam Press, noting responses that ranged from "That’s AI!" to "What a shame it didn’t work out."
Despite the dramatic collapse, Klapper said the structural failure meant the installation never officially qualified for the Guinness World Record.
The current record is held by Sven Goebel, also from Germany, who constructed a 9-foot-6-inch tower made from 70,000 beer coasters in 2004.
Klapper, who runs the media company MuVi 3D GmbH, said the project still marked a personal milestone. He began building beer coaster structures as a child and has continued creating large-scale installations for decades.
"Gradually, the constructions became larger and larger," he said. "I completed my first large project 33 years ago."
He added that displaying the builds in public spaces is a key part of the appeal.
"Viewers aren’t only presented with a finished work of art, they can witness the creation process as well," Klapper said.