SANCTUARY INSANITY: Sanctuary Minnesota Refuses to Honor ICE Detainer for Somalian Illegal Alien Convicted for Aggravated Assault and Drug Trafficking

This illegal alien was RELEASED into the country by the Biden Administration

WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement condemning sanctuary politicians in Minnesota for refusing to honor a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer for an illegal alien from Somalia, whose criminal history includes aggravated assault and drug trafficking.

On October 24, ICE lodged a detainer asking Minnesota officials to not release from jail Mustafa Abdirahman Abdi, an illegal alien from Somalia, who was in the custody of Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis. His criminal history includes convictions for aggravated assault, assault, aggravated trafficking of schedule drugs (cocaine), unlawful possession of schedule drugs, unlawful furnishing of schedule drugs, and trafficking prison contraband, and arrests for burglary, larceny, and resisting an officer.

Sanctuary politicians in Minnesota refused to honor ICE’s detainer and RELEASED Abdi onto the streets.

“Governor Tim Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians have turned the state of Minnesota into a hotbed of illegal alien crime,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “When ICE lodged a detainer for an illegal alien convicted for aggravated assault and drug trafficking, Minneapolis sanctuary politicians refused to cooperate and RELEASED him. Governor Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and other heartless sanctuary politicians are putting American lives at risk for political gain. DHS is calling on sanctuary politicians to put an end to this recklessness before any more lives are lost.” 

Abdi illegally entered the country at an unknown date and location. He was arrested by ICE in November 2020. Although an Immigration Judge issued Abdi a final order of removal on April 2, 2021, the Biden Administration RELEASED him into the country later that same month.

Under Governor Walz, Minnesota has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime. Recent examples of illegal alien crime in the state include:

• In October, an investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to the conviction of Alejandro Rojas Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico, on charges of attempted production of child pornography. 
• In June, Governor Walz and the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission granted a pardon to Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, who had been convicted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct after he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl. In July, ICE deported Vang back to Laos. 
• In June, ICE arrested Georgii Gabiev, an illegal alien from Russia, who caused a fatal truck crash in 2024 that killed American truck driver Tim Tarnowski in Chippewa County.
• In June, Governor Walz and the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission granted a pardon to Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, whose criminal record includes felony convictions for robbery and robbery of a business with a gun, as well as a conviction for driving under the influence of liquor.
• In April, ICE arrested THREE illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes against children in a single day: Rene Rosario-Miranda, an illegal alien from Guatemala convicted for third-degree aggravated sexual abuse of a minor; Axel Javier Martinez-Castillo, an illegal alien from Honduras whose criminal history includes the sexual assault of a 7-year-old; and Rene Flores-Lue, an illegal alien from El Salvador and a convicted rapist of a 5-year-old. 
• In February, ICE arrested Morris Brown, an illegal alien from Liberia and serial immigration fraudster, who was working as a Minnesota correctional officer despite having no legal status in the United States.
• In June 2025, ICE arrested Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, an illegal alien from Mexico, after he dragged an ICE officer 50 yards with his car in an attempt to flee law enforcement. His criminal history includes a conviction for sex crimes against an underage teenager and an arrest for domestic assault.

“Sanctuary Insanity” is a new daily series by the Department of Homeland Security highlighting the worst examples of sanctuary politicians refusing to honor ICE detainers, which risks releasing dangerous illegal aliens back onto the streets to terrorize American citizens. 

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