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Mika Brzezinski Shouts Into Camera For 4 Minutes Straight After Being Triggered By Tom Homan

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“Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski shouted into the camera on Thursday after border czar Tom Homan announced an end to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.

Homan said at a press conference that thousands of federal immigration officials will leave Minnesota in the coming week after the operation had resulted in more than 4,000 arrests since December. Following the announcement, Brzezinski raged at Homan for saying that immigration enforcement is prioritizing the “worst of the worst criminals” and accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of baselessly shooting people.

“A majority of Americans now have negative views of nearly every aspect of President Trump’s aggressive immigration and deportation tactics, what they did in Minneapolis, including killing people at point-blank range, shooting them in the head or the back nine times and then accusing them moments later of deserving it!” Brzezinski shouted. “People don’t like that! People don’t like seeing people murdered in the streets and then blamed for being murdered! Tom Homan, no, don’t condescend and lecture the state of Minnesota after what your ICE dudes, your ICE bros, idiots, untrained idiots, who literally don’t know how to handle weapons, who walk out in front of cars like boneheads and shoot people!”

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Brzezinski referred to the shooting of Renee Good on Jan. 7, who was shot by an ICE agent after she disobeyed officers and hit the officer with her vehicle. The officer suffered internal bleeding from the incident. The shooting, along with the death of Alex Pretti at the hands of a Border Patrol agent, caused public unrest and rioting throughout Minnesota, leading the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to send nearly 1,000 additional agents to the state to allow ICE to conduct their operations safely.

“Literally, who raised these people? Who raised these people? Because Americans, they don’t like what they see,” Brzezinski continued. “So you can scurry away from Minnesota and blame Minnesota for the public safety issue. But what ICE brought to Minnesota and Minneapolis specifically was a living hell for the community.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration deployed nearly 3,000 federal immigration agents as part of Operation Metro Surge in early December to ramp up the arrests of illegal aliens in the state. Following the thousands of arrests, Homan said during the press conference that the operation had successfully led to the arrests and deportations of public safety threats and the most “dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

Homan announced on Feb. 4 that 700 federal law enforcement personnel were leaving the Minneapolis-St. Paul areas following the “unprecedented collaboration” with state and local officials. This occurred after he engaged in what he called productive meetings with state officials, including Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who told Homan in January that county jails can notify ICE of the release dates of public safety threats so agents can track them down and take them into custody.

Trump held up mugshots of several of the “worst of the worst” criminals in Minnesota during a Jan. 20 press conference, some of whom were convicted of terroristic threats, molestation and drug possession. Some of the illegal aliens arrested in Minnesota include Hoyvanh Khounmixay, a Laos national, who was convicted of a sex offense against a child, and My Van Chau, a Vietnam national convicted of assault, terroristic threats, theft and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a DHS press release.