The Daily Blast: Minneapolis Mayor’s Emotional Message to Trump: You Failed to Break Us

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In today’s episode, we talk to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about the latest developments in his city. Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan have said they’re winding down ICE’s occupation, and Frey tells us there are some positive signs in this regard. But Frey also discusses how ICE violence has been directed from the very top, shares new details about the enormous and lasting damage it did to the city, and explains how the extraordinary solidarity between ordinary people there is enabling Minneapolis to emerge from this dark period unbroken and unbowed. “The people here are tough as hell,” Frey tells us, adding that the city feels “pride” at “what we are overcoming.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.5	Donald Trump and his borders are Tom Homan are claiming that they're winding down their occupation in Minneapolis and shifting to a more targeted set of operations.
0:36.5	It remains to be seen whether that will actually
0:39.0	happen or not, but what's already clear is that the occupation has done immense and lasting
0:44.9	damage to that city. Today we're talking to the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, about what
0:51.9	ice is still doing on the ground right now, what the road back is going
0:56.2	to look like, and what really happened between local officials and the Trump administration
1:00.9	that led to this promise to wind things down. Mayor Frey, thanks so much for coming on with us today.
1:07.6	Thanks so much for having me. So, Mayor, a new report in Politico finds that top ice officials
1:13.3	knew as early as last March that use of force incidents were soaring among ice agents. Data at the time
1:19.6	indicated that in 2025, such incidents had quadrupled over a comparable period in 2024.
1:26.3	Mayor, this is well in advance of the decision to send enormous amounts of federal
1:30.5	agents into Minneapolis, and there are no signs.
1:33.1	ICE took real steps to rein in officers, and of course, your city paid the price.
1:38.2	Your reaction to that?
1:39.8	None of this is at all surprising when you are directing agents to use tactics that might ultimately
1:47.9	result in a use of force.
1:49.9	In fact, will likely result in a use of force.
1:53.1	I don't think it's entirely wild to see those use of force numbers go dramatically up.
1:57.6	You know, you've got to understand that a lot of these directives are there from the top.
2:02.1	It was a decision at some point to bring thousands, tens of thousands of agents in without a
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