Roper: How Minnesota’s civic culture fueled a tough ICE resistance and took the feds by surprise

MINNEAPOLIS — They can’t seem to believe it. Federal officials, talking about Minneapolis all over the place, keep stressing just how unusual this resistance is.

They’ve never seen anything like it.

“In one city — in one city we have this outrage and this powder keg happening,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said recently on Fox News. “And it’s not right. And it doesn’t happen anywhere else.”

Blanche and all the others have been blaming Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey.