🌱 Patch AM: Why is a Shakopee lawmaker organizing an ICE “rapid response” group?

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• Why is a Shakopee lawmaker organizing an ICE “rapid response” group?

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📰 News we're reading

• Minnesota Dem whose district saw illegal alien behead a woman calls immigration enforcement a ‘farce' (alphanews.org) — Shakopee residents are being organized by State Rep. Brad Tabke into a “rapid response” network to monitor any ICE activity near the Samaha Islamic Center and elsewhere in town, amid fears in the immigrant community. The article sharply criticizes Tabke’s stance on immigration enforcement, recounts his comments that ICE makes communities less safe, and revisits the close 2024 election and a notorious 2021 murder in his district.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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