FLBear5630 said:Forest Bueller III said:Redbrickbear said:Forest Bueller III said:Redbrickbear said:Forest Bueller III said:midgett said:23% of all ICE arrests occur in Texas
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) January 24, 2026
2.2% occur in Minnesota
A 10-fold difference
Yet far more ICE-related violence is happening in Minnesota
Why? Because Democrats are promoting and provoking violence in Minnesota
Democrats do not hate violence
Violence is their goal
(I haven't verified the data but it wouldn't surprise me
Texas does have 18 times the illegal population Minnesota has, so there should be 18 times the arrests. So the arrest numbers aren't unusual.
Texas has 1.6 million illegals. Maine only has 5 thousand, yet I hear they are a new target.
With Trump targeting seems to be politically motivated.
Texas government is helping and cooperating with Federal authorities to deport illegals found inside Texas
So no need for direct ICE operations on the streets (thought they actually still sometimes take place)
In States that refuse to help or try to hinder Federal law the reason is thus not political but rational
PS
Maine has a Republican senator and a Independent Senator and it's State House of Representatives is 74 D vs 72 R
And Trump only lost the State by a few percentage points in the last election
Not exactly a place that is "anti-Trump" or that he would have any reasons to target
ICE in there because the Democratic governor is impeding Federal immigration laws and won't help. And because there is a lot of Somali fraud there
"December 2025, Maine Gov. Mills allowed a bill to become law that limits how state and local police can collaborate with federal immigration authorities"
That sounds fairly reasonable. But, with 5K illegals in the entire state there are better uses of resources. Only WV, Montana, and Wyoming have less illegals.
Trump still targets states/people politically. I get it, he has been targeted for over a decade now.
It's simply an easily verifiable fact that the administration is not specifically "targeting" these places.
Maybe resources would be better other places… but maybe notTrump isn't targeting blue states. They just gum up the works, so require more ICE presence.
— Charlie Smirkley (@charliesmirkley) January 24, 2026
From Feb–Oct 2025, red states disproportionately more ICE arrests relative to their illegal migrant population share. Large blue states like California, New York, and Illinois fell… pic.twitter.com/C9UEoRrspv
And there is Maine with a better than average arrest record.
West Virginia is the champion no doubt. Don't mess with West Virginia.
The issue is not with the arrests or even the resources, it is the tactics. How they are doing it is problematic.
Maybe the tactics in the Red States, and Maine, are fine. The Blue States may need a different set of tactics. Maybe cookie cutter is not the way to go.
What is being done in MN is not working. Time to step back, re-assess and change tactics before more people are shot.
OR, that is the point. This is meant to break them, so they don't care how many get shot. Based on the last Press Conference, I am leaning toward this is meant to intimidate and break their will.![]()
Typical FBI Press Conference
This calls two questions: a practical one and a philosophical one.
Practically, you're 100% right - there is so much intentional, coordinated disinformation from the oligarch media that it is a losing political fight.
Philosophically, do you surrender to globalist billionaires funding an insurrection and sowing violent dissent and states being funded to drive insurrection against democracy? Where is that line drawn?