As the ongoing federal surge in Minnesota continues, a huge rally and protest is planned in downtown Minneapolis starting at 2:00 p.m. Friday outside of U.S. Bank Stadium before those demonstrators will march to Target Center for an indoor rally.
Organizers say 100 organizations and over 700 businesses have signed on to the "ICE Out of MN: A Day for Truth and Freedom" rally which is being accompanied by an economic boycott.
During a visit to Minneapolis on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged more cooperation between the feds and local and state officials, but at the same time admitted that one of their narratives presented by the White House and Department of Homeland Security has been inaccurate - at best.
Pressed by CBS News' Nicole Sganga , both the Vice President and ICE officials acknowledged that the Minnesota Department of Corrections, overseen by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Commissioner Paul Schnell, does cooperate with the federal government.
Schnell has clamed the Department of Corrections does notify ICE when undocumented criminals are released from state facilities, something that federal officials seem to reluctantly verify.
But the feds also still argued county officials don't always do the same.
Speaking to WCCO's Adam and Jordana, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt pushed back somewhat on the federal government's demand that Minnesota jails let agents in to deport those with detainers.
That's been used by some in the Trump administration as one of the driving forces for putting so many agents on the streets in the Twin Cities.
Witt says that detainers are often very generic, and not signed by a judge, but adds there is a simple, legal solution to that cause that isn't not being used.
"If you have the probable cause, and you want that person, and you know that you have the legal authority to deport that person, it would be very helpful if they had a warrant," says Witt. "If you have a warrant, no sheriff would have any discretion about turning people over to the federal government."
Witt says it's not that jails don't want to cooperate with federal officials, but that there is - and should be - a process that needs to be followed in order to do so.