JD Vance Wants To 'Turn Down The Chaos' He Helped Create In Minneapolis

Vice President JD Vance said he wants to “turn down the chaos” that he helped create in Minneapolis as thousands of agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue to tear apart the community.

“The directive that I got from the president of the United States is ‘Meet these guys halfway,’” Vance said of city local leaders during a roundtable in Minneapolis on Thursday. “Work with them so that we can make these immigration enforcement operations successful without endangering our ICE officers, and so that we could turn down the chaos a little bit, at least. I think a lot, actually.”

That “chaos” includes the killing of Renee Good earlier this month by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Good, 37, was seen on multiple videos attempting to drive away in her vehicle on Jan. 7 when Ross shot her multiple times, including through her driver’s side window. 

“I’m not mad at you,” Good said moments before she was fatally shot.

“Fucking bitch,” Ross could be heard saying after killing her. 

Ross has not been charged with a crime, and was backed up by the White House and its stooges. Border Patrol’s on-the-ground commander in Minnesota, Gregory Bovino, said “hats off” to Ross for killing the woman. And in response to a tweet saying the Department of Homeland Security had killed an American citizen, Bovino’s account responded: “Triggered much?”

Vance decided to get himself involved in the fray as well, defending Ross’ killing of Good a day after it happened.

“That guy is protected by absolute immunity,” Vance said.” He was doing his job. I’ve never seen anything like that. It would get tossed out by a judge.”

ICE agents are not “protected by absolute immunity” for crimes they commit on the job.

On Thursday, Vance seemed to backtrack on his initial defense of Ross, saying that federal agents who “violate the law” are “going to face disciplinary action,” though no action has been taken against Ross.

Along with the killing of Good, ICE agents have been seen routinely using chemical weapons against demonstrators, snatching people off the streets, harassing locals taking their kids to school, and even detaining kids.

One of those kids was 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was snatched by federal agents earlier this week in Minnesota and is now in a detention facility with his dad in Texas.

Minnesota’s Columbia Heights School District Superintendent Zena Stenvik said at a press conference on Wednesday that ICE agents used the preschooler to draw out other family members from the child’s home.

Agents were “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait,” Stenvik said.

During his comments on Thursday, Vance defended the decision to send the preschooler off to a detention facility in Texas, arguing that since Liam’s dad had been taken, Liam had no one to look after him.

“So the story is that ‘ICE detained a 5-year-old.’ Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death?” Vance said.

But an adult who was home at the time of Liam’s abduction “begged the agents to let them take care of the small child, but was refused,” Stenvik said.

Other children, including a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old in the same school district as Liam, have also been taken alongside their parents.

During his Thursday remarks, Vance acknowledged that locals dealing with an invasion of federal agents could be “a little scary.”

“From one perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader or why an employee would say, ‘Well, what’s going on?’” Vance said of complaints from residents in the state. “It’s a little scary, no matter your position in life, if a bunch of cop cars show up and they’re arresting somebody.”

Of course, it’s not simply arrests that have residents in fear for their lives. Earlier this month, a woman in Minneapolis who said she was on her way to a doctor’s appointment had her driver’s window shattered by ICE agents and was dragged from the car by several men.

“I’m autistic and I have a brain injury — put me down!” the woman screamed as officers carried her by her limbs. “I’m disabled and I need accommodations!”