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Former President Joe Biden is talking out against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, saying that it “betrays our most basic values as Americans.”
During his 2024 re-election marketing campaign, then-former President Donald Trump argued that Biden and his border czar, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, did not safe the border, successfully permitting unprecedented unlawful immigration into the U.S. that posed a nationwide safety menace. Trump had promised a mass crackdown and deportations of felony unlawful aliens.
Now, Biden is asking out the Trump administration’s actions after the deadly shootings of two U.S. residents in Minneapolis.
“We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” Biden wrote in an announcement posted on X.
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Former President Joe Biden slammed the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service through Getty Images; Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times through Getty Images)
“Minnesotans have reminded us all what it is to be American, and they have suffered enough at the hands of this administration. Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it’s our own government targeting American citizens,” he added.
The former president referred to as on Americans to “stand up and speak out” against the conduct of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
“Now, justice requires full, fair, and transparent investigations into the deaths of the two Americans who lost their lives in the city they called home. Jill and I are sending strength to the families and communities who love Alex Pretti and Renee Good as we all mourn their senseless deaths,” Biden stated.
Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis has confronted elevated scrutiny in latest weeks following the deadly shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Both deaths sparked mass demonstrations and requires federal immigration officers to be pulled out of the state.
A card with pictures of Renee Good and Alex Pretti lies amongst flowers and different mementos at a memorial in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2026. (Octavio Jones/AFP through Getty Images)
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Harris, who served as Biden’s vp, has additionally been a vocal critic of the immigration crackdown. She referred to as the capturing of Good “shocking” and stated that “the horrifying and painful video” of the incident confirmed “that the Trump administration’s explanation of this shooting is pure gaslighting.”
After Pretti was shot, Harris stated she was “heartbroken for Alex, his family, Minneapolis and America.”
Minnesota leaders have criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, with Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “get the f— out” of his metropolis after Good was shot and killed throughout an interplay with an ICE officer.
Agitators converge after the capturing of Alex Pretti. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
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On Monday, Trump introduced that he could be sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota as Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, the face of his administration’s marketing campaign to arrest and deport felony unlawful immigrants, could be leaving, signaling a attainable shift in coverage.
“I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me,” Trump stated on Truth Social. In the identical submit, the president introduced “a major investigation” into allegations of welfare fraud in Minnesota.
Flowers and playing cards lie at a makeshift memorial web site, the place a person recognized as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent attempting to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 27, 2026. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
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Trump later stated that he and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a “very good call” regardless of their disagreements on the dealing with of immigration enforcement.
“I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all criminals that they have in their possession. The governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future,” Trump stated in a separate Truth Social submit. “He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!”
Trump added that each he and Walz share the aim of additional decreasing crime in Minnesota.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for remark.
Rachel Wolf is a breaking information author for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.
