Minnesota’s Democratic politicians have lost touch with reality — hardly surprising when their heads are lodged in a fundamentally dark place. Despite strong political competition to say the most clueless and incendiary things, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) might already have won this year’s prize.

Inveighing against federal enforcement of immigration law, Frey said, “Imagine [your] city or town was suddenly invaded by thousands … that do not share the values that you hold dear. Imagine if your daily routines were disrupted. … Imagine if schools shut down.”

The supposed invasion he refers to is by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, whose search for and detention of illegal immigrants is necessitated only because Frey’s “sanctuary city” bans local police from cooperating with ICE, so even violent criminals are let go rather than being handed........

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