Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE

[douglas9]

Dozens of Minnesota-based corporate executives issued an open letter this week urging an “immediate deescalation of tensions” after an immigration agent executed legal observer and ICU nurse Alex Pretti last Saturday.

The 79 CEOs and trade group leaders referred to President Trump’s terror campaign without naming it directly, citing “the recent challenges,” and claimed they have been hard at work “every day behind the scenes with federal, state and local officials to advance real solutions,” though they did not specify anything they had done. Instead, they said only that they “have been working for generations to build a strong and vibrant state here in Minnesota.”

After weeks of silence and in some cases allowing immigration agents to use their property as a staging ground, they used the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce website to “call for peace and focused cooperation.”

They failed to mention that they were instrumental in bringing Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota, through their public support and active lobbying of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The law allocated more than $170 billion over four years to deport one million immigrants annually. Congress had already appropriated $10 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when the law dropped; the additional money nearly tripled its funding for 2025 alone to almost $29 billion.

Immigration agents have killed at least eight people and wounded nine more nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps.


https://prospect.org/2026/01/28/minnesota-ice-trump-ceo-big-beautiful-bill-alex-pretti/?ref=paydayreport.com

[Chasstev365]

1. THEY are the reason we are in this situation!

Corporate America put the Orange Menace in office!

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. BINGO!!!!!

And yet, we keep on worrying about their minions.

Everyone rages about that orange gibbon, and Nosferatu, and the others, but it was the rich who put them there.

Do not forget. It was the rich who did this.

Remove the power of money in our society and we might figure out a way to make sure this does not happen again.

But, of course, then there would be no 'leaders', since we have been programmed to believe that the rich are the leaders.

Face it, we are too far gone down the greed hole to fix this without some major changes in our very society.

Which will never happen as long as we keep on swallowing their crap reasons for keeping things the way they are.

[democrank]

2. If this timid, lukewarm statement is the best they can do

these 79 CEOs and trade group leaders might as well stay silent. Really….”the recent challenges”….? Is that what we’re calling government-sponsored murder and chaos?

[Old Crank]

3. All GOP responses against Trump

Have been timid and luke warm.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. Well, it is what they call it.

We (rightfully) call it occupation and terrorism, but that is what they prefer, I guess.

Since they were the cause, they can say whatever they want.

It changes nothing.

[markodochartaigh]

4. So glad these corporate leaders could reach out and touch base

to let us know about their agile project management skills to do a deep dive to utilize synergies to bring a game changing experience to the table and utilize positive momentum to circle back and deliver an optimized solution to the bottleneck with ICE.

[oberle]

6. Hee hee

[GiqueCee]

5. Corporatism is a malignant cancer...

... and, sooner or later, cancer always kills its host.
It is said that "Corporatism" is what Mussolini preferred to call his for of government. The corporatists of today just have better tailors. Well, except for "Pinkie" Bovino; he prefers the old school of sartorial splendor. But he's gonna look pretty silly in that Nazi greatcoat standing in the parking lot exit with a cardboard sign begging for spare change.

[mysteryowl]

7. Is this about the milk-toast letter the corporate ceo's put together?

[niyad]

13. Yes

[Seinan Sensei]

10. " ... and in some cases allowing immigration agents to use their property as a staging ground"

Probably means that CEOs let ICE-agents come inside their corporate buildings to take a piss

Seriously, can you imagine waiting in line behind ICE-agents in a convenience-store bathroom, so YOU can pee?

I’m guessing it takes ICE forever to find their tiny dicks underneath all that cosplay gear

[niyad]

12. Do you remember Target?

[niyad]

11. Oh, look, more disgustiing names for my boycott list.

Land o Lakes?? sighhhhh.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. Boycott every collaborator of this evil