Trump calls on Congress to pass legislation ending sanctuary policies
The president also called on Democratic leaders to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
By Jacob Wendler, 01/25/2026 09:12 PM EST
President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Congress to pass legislation to end sanctuary jurisdiction policies as tensions run high over the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, the latest violent confrontation between ICE officers and demonstrators across the country.
In a Sunday evening Truth Social post, Trump wrote that he was “calling on the United States Congress to immediately pass Legislation to END Sanctuary Cities” and asking for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and all Democratic mayors and governors “to formally cooperate with the Trump Administration to enforce our Nation’s Laws, rather than resist and stoke the flames of Division, Chaos, and Violence.”
The call comes just a day after federal agents fatally shot Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti during a tense confrontation. The incident prompted Walz and Frey to once again urge the Trump administration to walk back its deployment of several thousand immigration enforcement officers to the state.
The requests from Minnesota’s elected officials for federal agents to leave the state reached a fever pitch after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good in her car in Minneapolis earlier this month.
Since then, Minnesota Democrats have maintained that federal officials have created chaos by surging immigration enforcement in the state.
Walz said last week he had received a subpoena as part of an investigation into him and other Democrats in the state after Trump warned the state’s leaders in a social media post that “THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”
Walz and Frey’s offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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