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A Minnesota university rushed to criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement for being on campus – to arrest a “registered sex offender.”
Over the weekend, ICE agents appeared at Augsburg University, a Lutheran college in Minneapolis. According to an official school statement, the community “was deeply shaken” by ICE’s presence on campus.
“Without producing a warrant, an armed, masked group of ICE agents targeted an undergraduate student and confronted members of our community directly outside a residence hall,” the school lamented. “They aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows.”
The “tactics” were “unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing,” according to Augsburg officials.
But as usual, ICE was in the right to arrest an individual – because he appears to be a criminal.
The Department of Homeland Security responded to a video of Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara saying people are “really scared” and “afraid” because of the ICE raids. Some people “who have simply lived here and been contributing to the community for many years,” are worried, O’Hara said.
Except Jesus Saucedo-Portillo never really contributed to the community, because he is a registered sex offender according to DHS.
“A university Administrator and campus security attempted to obstruct the arrest,” DHS wrote on X. “Our officers told the school Administrator and campus security that ICE had a warrant for the illegal alien’s arrest. The school Administrator told ICE officers they were violating university policies.”
Of course, as noted by DHS “federal law supersedes any University policy.”
The College Fix emailed the school’s communications director Rachel Farris for comment on Tuesday morning. The Fix asked if the school planned to make a further statement now that word is out Portillo is a sex offender. The Fix also asked if the school knew of his criminal status when it allowed him to enroll. She did not respond.
This is not the first time fake news about ICE has circulated on campus.
After all, remember the five-year-old girl with autism that ICE agents were reportedly holding hostage to get her father to exit his house?
The truth is that NBC News was wrong (no surprise there) and the father abandoned his daughter while evading police in his car. This dad was more concerned about evading ICE than taking care of his daughter (who thankfully was quickly cared for by local police).
How about the Chilean grandfather that ICE allegedly deported when he came into an immigration office for a green card appointment? He doesn’t exist at all, but that didn’t stop the mainstream media from repeating claims without verification.
Augsburg officials suffer from the same bias that the mainstream media does. They buy into the hysteria that immigration agents are running around arresting innocent grandfathers and students because Trump is Hitler.
Once the paranoia is deeply entrenched in their brains, it is hard for them to see that federal law enforcement is actually protecting us – from sex offenders, criminal rapists, and murderers.
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