Democrats have made it their full-time job during Trump’s second term to smear every aspect of his immigration agenda — and especially the men and women of ICE and the Border Patrol who actually keep this country secure.
But few have been louder or more reckless than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who seems to wake up every morning looking for a new way to demonize federal agents. He’s repeatedly labeled ICE the “Gestapo” and “fascists,” language so deranged and irresponsible it has helped fuel a surge in violent attacks against ICE personnel — including a shooting at a Texas ICE facility that left at least two migrants dead.
But apparently, even that level of hysteria isn’t enough for Walz. Now he’s straight-up inventing stories about ICE arresting American citizens:
He’s right about one thing: it is about stoking fear. But it’s not ICE doing it — it’s Democrats like Walz, whipping up panic over the perfectly legal, entirely reasonable enforcement of U.S. immigration law.
They want Americans terrified of the very agencies standing between this country and total border chaos. It’s manufactured fear, weaponized for politics — and it’s as cynical as it gets:
A 55-year-old woman who is an American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in the Willard-Hay neighborhood of north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested by federal law enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities last Monday.
ICE spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment or confirm the arrests.
Susan Tincher was awakened a little before 6:30 a.m. by alerts on her phone that an ICE arrest was happening in her neighborhood. She walked over alone and asked one of the officers across the street from the home that was being raided if they were ICE. She said the officer told her to “get back.” Tincher refused, and said multiple agents approached her.
Tincher was interfering with law enforcement, plain and simple. And the very article Walz cherry-picked even spells it out: federal law makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere” with a federal law enforcement officer carrying out their duties.
Notice something? Nowhere does the law say you have to be able to bench-press an ICE agent for it to count.
But the article bends over backward to portray Tincher — a “slight woman,” as they put it — as somehow incapable of interfering with ICE. As if physical force is the only way to obstruct an arrest. It isn’t. Interference can be verbal, disruptive, obstructive, or simply refusing lawful instructions. Anything that slows or prevents ICE from doing its job qualifies.
So yes, Tincher allegedly broke the law. And yes, ICE acted appropriately.
Walz’s thoughts are about as deep as a splash pad, of course — all noise, no substance.
Democrats are perfectly free to introduce a bill to defund ICE or repeal our immigration laws if they’re so outraged by enforcement. They won’t, because they know it would be political suicide, but they could. That’s how the system works.
But until they muster the courage to actually change the law — and get it through Congress — President Trump is not only allowed but obligated to enforce the laws on the books. That’s literally why voters put him back in the Oval Office.
Democrats can whine, shriek, and invent scare stories all they want. Trump is doing the job they refuse to do.