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Vice President JD Vance said he wants to “reject the chaos” he helped create in Minneapolis as thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to tear the community apart.

“The directive I got from the president of the United States is ‘Meet these guys halfway,’” Vance said of the city’s local leaders during a roundtable in Minneapolis on Thursday. “Work with them so that we can make these immigration enforcement operations successful without endangering our ICE officers, and so that we can reduce the chaos a little bit, at least. Actually, I think a lot.”

That “chaos” includes the murder of Renee Good earlier this month by ICE Agent Jonathan Ross. Good, 37, was seen on several videos attempting to drive away in her vehicle on Jan. 7 when Ross shot her multiple times, including through the driver’s side window.

“I’m not mad at you,” Good said moments before she was fatally shot.

“Damn bitch,” Ross was heard saying after killing her.

Ross has not been charged with any crime and had the backing of the White House and its puppets. Border Patrol field commander in Minnesota, Gregory Bovino, told Ross “congratulations” for killing the woman. And in response to a tweet that said the Department of Homeland Security had killed a U.S. citizen, Bovino’s account responded: “Did it trigger much?”

Vance decided to get into the fray as well, defending Ross’s murder of Good a day after it happened.

“That guy is protected by absolute immunity,” Vance said. He was doing his job. I’ve never seen anything like it. “A judge would throw it out.”

On Thursday, Vance appeared to backtrack on his initial defense of Ross, saying that federal agents who “violate the law” “will face disciplinary action,” although no action has been taken against Ross.

Along with Good’s murder, ICE agents have been seen routinely using chemical weapons against protesters, running people off the streets, harassing locals taking their children to school, and even detaining children.

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One of those children was 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was kidnapped by federal agents earlier this week in Minnesota and is now in a detention center with his father in Texas.

Superintendent of Minnesota’s Columbia Heights School District, Zena Stenvik, said at a news conference Wednesday that ICE agents used the preschooler to remove other family members from the child’s home.

The officers were “essentially using a 5-year-old child as bait,” Stenvik said.

During his remarks Thursday, Vance defended the decision to send the preschooler to a detention center in Texas, arguing that since Liam’s father was taken away, Liam had no one to care for him.

“So the story is ‘ICE detained a 5-year-old’. Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old freeze to death?” Vance said.

But an adult who was home at the time of Liam’s abduction “begged the officers to let them take care of the little boy, but they refused,” Stenvik said.

Other children, including a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old from the same school district as Liam, were also taken to their parents.

During his remarks Thursday, Vance acknowledged that locals facing an invasion by federal agents could be “a little scary.”

“From one perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader or employee would say, ‘Well, what’s going on?’” Vance said of complaints from state residents. “It’s a little scary, no matter your station in life, if a bunch of police cars show up and arrest someone.”

Of course, it’s not simply the arrests that have residents fearing for their lives. Earlier this month, ICE agents smashed the driver’s window of a Minneapolis woman who said she was headed to a doctor’s appointment and several men dragged her out of the car.

“I’m autistic and have a brain injury. Put me down!” The woman screamed as the officers carried her by her limbs. “I am disabled and need accommodations!”