In what appears to be a significant move, meant to send a message to the city of Minneapolis that the Trump administration isn’t about to back down from clearing that city of illegal aliens, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has approved the use of a military base near the Minneapolis airport as a housing, vehicle storage and staging area for ICE and Border Patrol operations. That message? “We are not going away.” An email, supposedly from Customs and Border Protection, acquired by the San Francisco Chronicle, has the details.
In what could be a sign of President Donald Trump’s Minnesota immigration siege digging in, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request Monday by the Department of Homeland Security to further support its efforts in the Twin Cities.
In an email obtained by the Chronicle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked for space at Fort Snelling, a historic decommissioned military base in an unincorporated area next to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, to house federal immigration agents, weapons, vehicles and aircraft.
Fort Snelling is already the site of a U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement field office and a DHS immigration enforcement and detention processing center. CBP will use land on a U.S. Army Reserve base there.
As far as I’m able to ascertain, Fort Snelling is mostly a historical site, meaning that it’s not a ‘closed’ post. No gates, no guards. But it is a federal installation, with some Army Reserve and some ICE and DHS offices already there. It would represent not only a convenient staging area for ICE and Border Patrol operations, but it would also reduce these agencies’ dependency on hotels for housing their people. We’ve already seen trouble from that practice, and even if Fort Snelling isn’t secured now, it could be, one would presume, fairly quickly.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has reportedly already approved the use.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requests support from the Department of War (DoW) to provide existing infrastructure to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of DHS, specifically an area for parking approximately 300-500 vehicles and 10 storage trailers, a ready room space for approximal 500-800 CBP personnel, a space to house, maintain and operate five CBP Air Assets, access to a magazine to store munitions, and other necessary facilities to support operations in the Minneapolis, Minnesota metropolitan area,” the email said.
On Monday morning, Hegseth approved the request, according to correspondence obtained by the Chronicle.
As the saying goes, this isn’t over.
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The useful idiots swarming the streets of Minneapolis are going to have to accommodate themselves to the idea that President Trump and his agents in the field have decided that, when it comes to clearing the Twin Cities of dangerous illegal aliens, the only way out is through. Oh, ICE, DHS, and the Border Patrol can and should leave Minneapolis – when the job is done. Not before. This move appears to be a step in that direction, and remember, there’s a new guy on the way to head up this operation, Tom “The Hammer” Homan.
It won’t be easy. Governor Walz, as of this morning, seems to have suddenly decided that maybe he pushed things too far. But don’t bet on the angry mobs on the street having any such notion. Just because something’s not easy doesn’t mean it doesn’t need doing, and having a more secure base, close to the action, for people and equipment, that’s a good logistical move.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left’s lies, new legislation wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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