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@liztai
It’s complicated.

Our “local forces” are the Minneapolis Police. You may have heard of them, from, oh, say, the year 2020. They are at best useless, at worst ICE-friendly (if legally barred from overtly assisting them).

The Minnesota National Guard, who are much better, have been put on notice that they may have to mobilize. However, that is almost certainly in case of widespread civil unrest, not to remove ICE. To have MN NG directly confront ICE wouldn’t just mean chasing ICE out; it would mean an armed standoff between the Minnesota State and US Federal governments, which is…well, beyond uncharted. We might end up there, but there’s no simple “can’t you just” here.