by Ben Whedon
President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that he had had a productive phone call with Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., amid ongoing resistance to immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
“Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota,” he posted on Truth Social. “It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength.”
“I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession,” he went on. “The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”
Homan is set to arrive in Minneapolis on Monday to survey the situation. His arrival follows the second death of a demonstration in an ICE-involved altercation.
Minneapolis has been a hotspot for immigration enforcement and high-profile demonstrations in the wake of revelations about large-scale public fraud linked to the area’s Somali expat community.
On Sunday, during a press conference, Walz compared ICE’s involvement in Minneapolis to the story of Anne Frank from World War II.
“We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,” Walz said, according to The New York Post. “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.”
“Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota,” he added.
The US Holocaust Mueseum condemed Walz’s comments on X.
“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges,” the museum stated.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
Background Photo “Minnesota ICE Protest” by Lorie Shaull. CC BY 4.0.
