While Winter Storm Fern blanketed much of the southeastern United
States with snow ? and, of course, ice ? media outlets continued to
foment panic over President Donald Trump?s use of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (the other kind of ICE) and Border Patrol in major
cities like Minneapolis.

For those who don?t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television
? and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week?s worth
of network and cable news media spin ? The Daily Wire has compiled a
short summary of what you may have missed.

Tensions ramped up over the weekend after a fatal shooting involving
Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, where federal immigration
officials continue their efforts to apprehend and remove criminal
illegal aliens. Sanctuary policies ? promoted both by Mayor Jacob Frey
and by failed vice presidential candidate and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN)
? have left federal agents working not only without the coordination
and cooperation of local law enforcement, but sometimes directly in
opposition to them.

The end result is the impasse that made a surge of federal resources
and personnel necessary in the first place: local officials claim that
having federal agents in the streets make the people less safe, while
federal officials maintain that if state and local police would honor
ICE detainers and allow federal officers to apprehend criminal illegals
in jails and courthouses, federal officers would not need to be on the streets.

By Sunday, the lines in the snow had been drawn and reinforced ? and
the legacy media outlets brought in Democrats (and a few Republicans)
who would question the Trump administration, at least in light of the
latest fatal confrontation.

ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl began his broadcast of ?This Week? with a
brief profile of Alex Pretti, 37, who was shot by Border Patrol agents
? and quoted Pretti?s mother as saying, ?He loved his country, but he
hated what people were doing to it.?

?He loved his country, but he hated what people were doing to
it,? Alex Pretti?s mother told the AP.

ABC News? @JonKarl reports on what we know about the 37-year-
old, who was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday in
Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/nzQJ9tYzE4

? This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 25, 2026

Karl then brought in Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) ? who is expected to
jump into the gubernatorial race in the coming months ? to discuss the situation. Klobuchar claimed she would have supported efforts to root
out fraud and to apprehend the worst of the worst when it came to
criminal illegal aliens ? but she believed it was clear that was not
what the Trump administration had been doing.

?If your goal was to go after fraud, that?s a righteous goal.
But that?s not what this is. If your goal was to apprehend
violent offenders ? good. But that?s not what you?re doing
anymore.?

Sen. Klobuchar?s message to federal officials after escalating
tensions in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/FRz5VoRNvy

? This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 25, 2026

Klobuchar addressed the Pretti shooting directly, saying that some
Republicans had spoken to her quietly about their concerns regarding
the actions of federal agents but that was not enough. ?At this point,
silence is complicity,? she said, claiming that federal agents were
violating constitutional rights at every turn.

Klobuchar argued, among other things, that the agents cracking down on
violent protests were violating First Amendment rights to assemble ?
and then claimed that Border Patrol agents were violating the Second
Amendment because Pretti had been a legally-permitted gun-owner.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar criticizes her Republican colleagues who
she says have not spoken about the federal actions in
Minneapolis: ?At this point, silence is complicity.?
https://t.co/Q4LlxAFJW9 pic.twitter.com/Jmda2AVYSx

? This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 25, 2026

Karl wrapped up the broadcast by giving New York City?s democratic
socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani a chance to double down on his calls to
defund ICE. ?ICE is an organization that cares little for the rules.
It?s an organization that operates with reckless impunity and seems to
revel in the flouting of those kinds of rules. And that?s what gives
people a real sense of fear,? Mamdani claimed.

NYC Mayor Mamdani on his calls to abolish ICE: ?ICE is an
organization that cares little for the rules. It?s an
organization that operates with reckless impunity and seems
to revel in the flouting of those kinds of rules. And that?s
what gives people a real sense of fear.?
pic.twitter.com/i3n9c6Np6N

? This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 25, 2026

On CBS News, ?Face the Nation? host Margaret Brennan brought in Senator
Angus King (I-ME) to discuss the surge of agents coming to his state in
the same way they?d dispatched to Minnesota, and he drew a hard line:
?I believe what we?re seeing is an attempt to intimidate the American
people. Again, armed people with masks and telling people they can?t photograph what they are doing and intimidating protesters, that?s not American.?

King joined Democrats making noise about another possible government
shutdown as he said that he couldn?t possibly vote for a bill that
funded ICE.

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) says he ?can?t vote for a bill that
includes ICE funding in these circumstances, what they are
doing in my state, what we saw yesterday in Minneapolis.?

?I believe what we?re seeing is an attempt to intimidate the
American people,? King says. ?Again, armed?
pic.twitter.com/ESbH4QMwzX

? Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 25, 2026

King claimed that there was a way for federal authorities to enforce immigration law without ?ransacking our cities and terrorizing our
residents,? but he did not say how he expected that to happen while
local and state authorities were refusing to cooperate with the feds ?
and while Democrat leaders were actively encouraging civilians to
obstruct and push back on the federal agents attempting to do their
jobs.

When asked how the state and federal government can work
together on immigration, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) says federal
authorities ?can enforce the laws against illegal immigration
and people that are criminals without ransacking our cities
and terrorizing our residents.?

?There? pic.twitter.com/yH2uHNj1sf

? Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 25, 2026

Brennan also spoke with Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O?Hara, who
suggested that the federal agents were going about things the wrong
way.

?The Minneapolis Police Department went the entire year last year
recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds and
hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn?t shoot anyone,? he claimed,
but he failed to address the fact that the city was still awash in
criminal illegal aliens that he and his department had done nothing
about.

After two U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents in
Minneapolis in recent weeks, the city?s police chief, Brian
O?Hara, says the people of Minneapolis ?have had enough? of
ICE?s Operation Metro Surge.

?The Minneapolis Police Department went the entire year last
year? pic.twitter.com/dX3DKVtHbe

? Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 25, 2026

And on CNN, anchor Dana Bash discussed the situation with newly-elected Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ). Asking Sherrill about the fact that her
state was home to numerous ?sanctuary? jurisdictions ? and was likely
to face surges of federal agents as well, Bash asked how she planned to
handle such actions.

Sherrill?s response was to compare ICE to the communist STASI, East
Germany?s brutal secret police.

Sherrill on ICE: ?This is about a basically Stasi-type force
of secret police that wear masks, that are unidentifiable,
that are unaccountable, that have leadership in the Trump
administration blatantly lying about what?s going on, when
the American people can see the videos?
pic.twitter.com/oRnMsIUEDE

? State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) January 25, 2026



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love this country.


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