The Minneapolis operations, designed to target fraud, included the deployment of 3,000 federal officers in a city of fewer than 500,000 people. Phillip highlighted that most of those targeted were not foreign nationals, exposing a disconnect between official rationale and local reality.
CNN senior political commentator Ana Navarro observed that Americans are upset by the mishandling and mischaracterization of federal enforcement, including the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE agents.