Jacob Frey accused the Trump administration of pursuing a ‘might is right’ policy and staging an ‘invasion’ of his city
Jacob Frey, the embattled mayor of Minneapolis, has warned fellow mayors that their city will be next in line to be targeted by federal immigration agents unless they speak out against Donald Trump’s aggressive deployments.
Addressing the US conference of mayors in Washington DC, Frey won loud applause as he accused the Trump administration of staging an “invasion” of his city and pursuing a “might makes right” philosophy, which he said was championed by Stephen Miller, Trump’s most powerful aide.
Speaking five days after last Saturday’s fatal shooting in Minneapolis of a protester, Alex Pretti, by two immigration agents, Frey called the the deployment of between 3,000 and 4,000 federal agents into the city “an invasion on our democracy, [and] on our republic”.
“I didn’t take this job to get into the business of defending democracy. I did it because being a mayor has always been my dream job.
