Kelly Loeffler, administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), announced Saturday that she has ordered the agency’s Minneapolis branch to relocate out of the city due to “the overwhelming local hostility toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” The Minneapolis SBA bureau will, instead, set up shop in a yet-to-be-named area “that compl[ies] with federal law – and take[s] seriously their responsibility to promote public safety on Main Street.”
Loeffler made the announcement on X, reiterating her pledge to not “surge resources to communities that refuse to protect their small business owners by impeding this Administration’s efforts to deport and detain criminal illegal aliens.” Her agency has been part of the coordinated effort by the Trump administration to uncover the full extent of the Somali-linked fraud that’s seen $9 billion in taxpayer money disappear under the watch of Minnesota’s Democrat governor, Tim Walz.
Following the events of this week, and the overwhelming local hostility toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I have ordered @SBAgov to begin relocation of our agency’s Minneapolis district office.
Since Day One, I have been clear that SBA will not continue to surge…
— Kelly Loeffler (@SBA_Kelly) January 10, 2026
Following the events of this week, and the overwhelming local hostility toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I have ordered @SBAgov to begin relocation of our agency’s Minneapolis district office.
Since Day One, I have been clear that SBA will not continue to surge resources to communities that refuse to protect their small business owners by impeding this Administration’s efforts to deport and detain criminal illegal aliens.
We will relocate our offices to cities that comply with federal law – and take seriously their responsibility to promote public safety on Main Street.
This is the second blockbuster announcement Loeffler has made on X this month. Just two days into the new year, she announced that SBA would be suspending thousands of Minnesota borrowers pending investigations into whether or not they were part of the $9 billion fraud scandal.
Today, our agency took action to suspend 6,900 Minnesota borrowers amid suspected fraudulent activity. In total, these borrowers were approved for 7,900 PPP and EIDL loans worth approximately $400M.
The office relocation announcement by Loeffler comes after Minneapolis has once again become an epicenter of lefty violence and unrule. As RedState’s Nick Arama reported earlier Saturday, violent thugs took to the streets of the city Friday night looking to hunt down ICE agents they thought were staying at area hotels. Nick noted that one agitator was seen carrying a flag for the Communist Party of the USA, while others graffitied “F**k ICE” on the windows and doors of one local hotel.
READ MORE: Anti-ICE Mob Storms Hotels in Minneapolis Looking for ICE, Even Chases and Attacks Police
Minneapolis is an object lesson in “this is why we can’t have nice things.” If Democrat “leaders” of the city continue to coddle unruly leftist mobs, obstruct federal law enforcement, and look the other way on fraud, more agencies, businesses, business owners, and sane residents will up sticks and leave town – and you can’t really blame them. Sometimes it’s best to leave the asylum to the loons.
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