{"id":117687,"date":"2026-01-19T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/mother-of-officer-killed-by-illegal-migrant-criticizes-minnesota-leaders-warped-view-of-police-117687"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:35:07","slug":"mother-of-officer-killed-by-illegal-migrant-criticizes-minnesota-leaders-warped-view-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/mother-of-officer-killed-by-illegal-migrant-criticizes-minnesota-leaders-warped-view-of-police-117687","title":{"rendered":"Mother of officer killed by illegal migrant criticizes Minnesota leaders&#8217; &#8216;warped view&#8217; of police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An angel mom of a police officer killed by an illegal migrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke out against<\/a> the &#8220;hate and unrest&#8221; ICE agents are facing on &#8220;The Faulkner Focus&#8221; Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These people don&#8217;t know what their illegal neighbors have done,&#8221; Mary Ann Mendoza told Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner. &#8220;These illegals move across the country to avoid crimes that they&#8217;ve committed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza\u2019s son, Officer Brandon Mendoza, was killed in 2014 by an intoxicated driver who was in the U.S. illegally and had a long criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin<\/a>, 70% of illegal immigrants who have been arrested under the Trump administration either have prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/anti-ice-threat-spray-painted-vehicle-believed-used-federal-officers-during-minneapolis-unrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ANTI-ICE THREAT SPRAY-PAINTED ON VEHICLE BELIEVED TO BE USED BY FEDERAL OFFICERS DURING MINNEAPOLIS UNREST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mendoza\u2019s defense of law enforcement comes as anti-I.C.E. protests nationwide have intensified since the shooting of Renee Good on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, DHS reported a 1,300% increase in assaults<i>\u00a0<\/i>against federal law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza criticized Minnesota leaders\u2019 &#8220;warped view&#8221; of police to explain why she empathizes with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/minneapolis-police-chief-says-rhetoric-keeps-escalating-we-headed-towards-yet-another-tragedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF SAYS IF RHETORIC KEEPS ESCALATING &#8216;WE ARE HEADED TOWARDS YET ANOTHER TRAGEDY&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a lot of people don&#8217;t understand is, it is the mayor [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey] and the city council who absolutely direct a police department of a city of what they can and cannot do,&#8221; Mendoza said. &#8220;I&#8217;m assuming, more than likely, the majority of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/minneapolis-st-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city council members [in Minneapolis]<\/a> are Somalians or illegals because they are a sanctuary state, liberals who have, you know, just a warped view of what law enforcement and protecting the community is about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The angel mom accused Minnesota politicians of making local police officers sit on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So these are the people that are saying to the law enforcement, the police officers, \u2018Sorry, you can&#8217;t do your job.\u2019 It&#8217;s exactly what [former DHS Secretary] Mayorkas did to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/border-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Border Patrol<\/a>, right, handcuffed them, didn&#8217;t let them do their jobs, turned them into babysitters,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/don-lemon-responds-trump-dojs-threat-stands-coverage-anti-ice-protest-minnesota-church\"><strong>DON LEMON RESPONDS TO TRUMP DOJ&#8217;S THREAT, STANDS BY COVERAGE OF ANTI-ICE PROTEST AT MINNESOTA CHURCH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine taking an oath, getting up and putting your uniform on, going out into the community and feeling helpless,&#8221; Mendoza added.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza went on to describe her son as a man who poured his heart into his community, adding she was &#8220;overwhelmed&#8221; by how many people recounted the &#8220;special things&#8221; her son did for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an amazing man who just loved his community, loved kids\u2026went to every door in the neighborhood that he was working. 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