FEDERAL LAW, HOW DOES IT WORK?
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says that Somalians should call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to make arrests.
He says police will "immediately respond" and "intervene."
Interfering with immigration enforcement is a CRIME. pic.twitter.com/yTY0lFg3Sb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 2, 2025
Related: Byron York on immigration law: Federal government has enforcement authority.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said that, despite what Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass think, state and local governments do not have the authority to enforce immigration laws — only the federal government does.
Bass defended her resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on CNN’s The Situation Room, where she responded to the network’s new poll finding that 54% of people approve of the administration’s program to deport illegal immigrants. However, Bass said she does not believe this poll is accurate and that federal agents were “overstepping,” taking away power from the state.
In response, York clarified that the federal government has the sole authority to enforce immigration law.
York recalled the Obama administration, when Arizona officials told former President Barack Obama, “You are not enforcing immigration laws, so we’ll do it.” Obama said no, the issue went to court, and the president won.
“The ruling is the federal government has the sole authority to do this,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “So when Karen Bass says, ‘It is like the federal government is coming in and taking our state and local authority,’ no, they don’t have any state and local authority.”
Beyond the Supreme Court, what is this about “calling 911?” I thought that such calls were rendered déclassé and infra dig in uber-woke Minnesota during 2020’s Summer of Love:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Sounds like Brian O’Hara just gave rise to a criminal conspiracy case against the police department and him.