Walz’s “Wisdom”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered the commencement address for the University of Minnesota’s law school this weekend. Usually, commencement speakers try to offer some memorable and inspiring words of wisdom for the graduates.

Instead, Walz painted a portrait of America as a fascist state. He told the aspiring attorneys that our federal immigration police officers are “Trump’s Gestapo,” who are driving around in unmarked vehicles, grabbing people off the streets, and “disappearing” them without any due process.

Here are the facts, as Governor Walz surely knows. The illegal aliens detained by our federal immigration enforcement officers have already had due process. They went before immigration courts during the Biden administration. A judge ruled they had no legal grounds to be in the United States and issued a legal order for their removal. 

The illegal aliens being arrested now did not comply with the court order, so they committed yet another crime. Immigration authorities knew where these people were, but the Biden administration refused to enforce the removal orders. The Trump administration is enforcing our immigration laws, including orders for removal.

Governor Walz, who almost became vice president of the United States, is claiming these illegal aliens must have another proceeding before another judge before they can be removed. Some illegal aliens are demanding a jury trial and the right to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. 

That’s totally unworkable. And that’s exactly the point. The Left wants an impossible process that is itself a de facto amnesty.

But here’s a far more serious and disturbing point. Walz is comparing our brave immigration police officers carrying out legal orders to Hitler’s Gestapo that carried innocent Jews away in the middle of the night and put them into death camps.

Walz’s disgusting rhetoric is stoking political violence, putting the lives of our immigration police officers at risk.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas all did the same thing. After an incident involving Haitian migrants attempting to storm the southern border, they compared our Border Patrol agents to the Ku Klux Klan.

It was known at the time that the agents did nothing wrong. A later investigation confirmed that the agents did nothing wrong. But Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas never apologized.

This kind of demonizing rhetoric by Walz, Harris, and other left-wing politicians is unacceptable. The people engaged in it should be unelectable.