Loeffler announced the move on Saturday due to the “overwhelming local hostility” toward ICE after one of its officers shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis when she refused to exit her vehicle and instead drive off and appeared to hit the officer with her car.
“Following the events of this week, and the overwhelming local hostility toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I have ordered [the Small Business Administration] to begin relocation of our agency’s Minneapolis district office,” Loeffler posted on X. “Since Day One, I have been clear that SBA will not continue to surge resources to communities that refuse to protect their small business owners by impeding this Administration’s efforts to deport and detain criminal illegal aliens.”
While she did not indicate where the office, currently in downtown Minneapolis, would now be, Loeffler said SBA offices would be relocated to “cities that comply with federal law — and take seriously their responsibility to promote public safety on Main Street.”
The move is the latest from the Trump administration in a state that has been the center of controversy for months.
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The Minnesota fraud scandal largely involving the state’s Somali community has been under investigation by federal officials, leading to several convictions and indictments as well as the halting of all SBA grants to the state.
The killing of Good by ICE on Wednesday, which allegedly occurred in self-defense as Good “weaponized” her vehicle, has only further stoked tensions between state lawmakers and the administration.
