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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 22, 2026

January 22, 2026 · The White House · 0:33:14

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance spoke in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 22, 2026, flanked by federal law-enforcement officers, four days before the weekend shooting that would dominate the following week’s briefings. He opened with the families of the Annunciation school shooting, whom he had met on his last Minneapolis visit, noting that a couple of the students had made “near miraculous recoveries.”

He stated his mission plainly: he had come to meet with business leaders, ICE officers, and local law enforcement “to try to understand a little bit better what’s going on — so that we can tone down the temperature a little bit, reduce the chaos, but still allow us, as a federal government, to enforce the American people’s immigration laws.” He defended the officers as working under “an incredible amount of duress,” recounting that two off-duty ICE officers who had been doxed were recently trapped in a Minneapolis restaurant by agitators who locked the door. His line on protest was explicit: “protest me, protest our immigration policy, but do it peacefully. If you assault a law enforcement officer, the Trump administration and the Department of Justice is going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

Why it matters

Minneapolis in January 2026 was the sharpest point of conflict over the administration’s immigration enforcement, and the Vice President’s visit was its first senior-level attempt at de-escalation without retreat — the stated formula the White House then carried into the Homan mission and the briefings of the following week, all tracked on this site’s Border & Immigration hub.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 22, 2026” (official upload, embedded above). Remarks as delivered at the event.