Immigration officials tout arrests in Minnesota and defend tactics used by federal agents

Описание: (20 Jan 2026)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis - 20 January 2026
1. Wide of Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and ICE Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Marcos Charles arriving for press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol Commander:
"Since the start of this operation, we've arrested some of the most dangerous criminal offenders operating in Minnesota. In the entire state of Minnesota, we have arrested some of the most violent criminal offenders right here in this city. These are not minor violators or minor garden variety criminals, these are repeat offenders with serious criminal histories."
3. Wide of Bovino speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol Commander:
"Over the course of this administration, more than 10,000 criminal illegal aliens, as I said, have been apprehended here in Minneapolis over the past year. And in just the last six weeks, the last six weeks alone, during this most current surge, 3,000 arrests of some of the most dangerous offenders operating in Minneapolis have occurred. 3,000."
5. Wide of Bovino speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol Commander:
"We will continue making arrests, and we will continue working to keep Minneapolis safe. The mission continues at the border and in the interior because that effective enforcement depends on both occurring at the same time."
7. Wide of Bovino speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol Commander:
(Reporter: "At a press conference today we heard from several police chiefs who said that they support ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) but that certain ICE tactics are making their jobs keeping their own communities safe that much harder. What's your response?")
Gregory Bovino: "I would say that those tactics are born of necessity. What we do is legal, ethical, and moral. Everything we do every day is legal ethical, moral, well-grounded in law."
9. Wide of Bovino speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcos Charles, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations:
"ICE currently has more than 1,360 immigration detainers on illegal aliens in Minnesota jails and prisons, and we are calling on Governor Walz and Mayor Frye to turn these criminal illegal aliens directly over to ICE to keep Minnesota residents in our community safe."
11. End of briefing, Bovino and Charles walking away
STORYLINE:
Top immigration officials touted the arrests they have made in Minnesota and defended the tactics used by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday.

"Over the course of this administration, more than 10,000 criminal illegal aliens, as I said, have been apprehended here in Minneapolis over the past year. And in just the last six weeks, the last six weeks alone, during this most current surge, 3,000 arrests of some of the most dangerous offenders operating in Minneapolis have occurred," said Border Patrol senior official Greg Bovino.

ICE and Border Patrol officers have used aggressive tactics during the recent crackdown, including breaking down the door of a family’s home without a judicial warrant and pulling people from vehicles.

Immigration officers’ tactics are “born of necessity,” Bovino said, and “well-grounded in law.”

“Everything we do is legal, ethical and moral,” he said.




The person was not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.









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