Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) likened President Trump’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities to the barbaric Nazi occupation chronicled by Anne Frank.<\/b>
\nMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) likened President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities to the barbaric Nazi occupation chronicled by Anne Frank.
\u201cWe have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,\u201d Walz declared during a fiery press conference on Sunday. \u201cMany of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.\u201d
\u201cSomebody\u2019s going to write that children\u2019s story about Minnesota.\u201d
Frank famously chronicled her harrowing time in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands for over two years before her capture. Ultimately, she died in a concentration camp.
Taking a somber tone, Walz vowed to be defiant in the face of Operation Metro Surge and re-upped his well-worn demands for the Trump administration to end the surge of federal law enforcement personnel to the state.
\u201cIf it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I\u2019m damn proud of the example that the world is seeing,\u201d the governor added.
Tensions in Minneapolis have soared in the wake of a Border Patrol agent\u2019s shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse, on Saturday.
Footage showed multiple officers pinning Pretti to the ground and removing his 9mm handgun, the gun slide of which appeared to move. Officers then opened fire on Pretti.
Attorney General Pam Bondi penned a letter to Walz on how to end the chaos in Minnesota but the governor shrugged that off.
\u201cThere\u2019s 2 million documents in the Epstein files we\u2019re still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those,\u201d Walz snapped back on Sunday.
\u201cWe cooperate. We don\u2019t do their job,\u201d Walz later contended when pressed about the Trump administration\u2019s demands that it can get more access to the state\u2019s jails. \u201cIt\u2019s their job to do immigration.\u201d
The shooting of Pretti came some two weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot Renee Good, also 37, after she accelerated her SUV in his direction.
An investigation into Pretti\u2019s death is ongoing, according to top officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
\u201cI don\u2019t care if you are conservative, are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian \u2018Don\u2019t Tread on Me,\u2019 a Democratic Socialist \u2014 this is an inflection point, America,\u201d Walz stressed.
\u201cIf we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw, someone has to be accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n