Minnesota’s radical Democrat Governor Tim Walz is continuing to push his party’s tired line that President Donald Trump’s policies resemble those of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
In his latest effort, Walz compared Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Hitler’s Gestapo.
Walz attacked the personnel executing the Trump administration’s immigration during a Saturday commencement address at the University of Minnesota law school.
Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security.
The president’s orders have included designating Mexican drug cartels and South and Central American gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
Trump has also invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of dangerous foreign gang members.
Walz, the Democrats’ failed 2024 vice presidential candidate, suggested during the speech that Trump is using ICE to implement his immigration agenda similarly to how Hitler used the Gestapo secret police to target opponents, according to RealClearPolitics.
“Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz claimed.
“They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons—no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.”
“To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial,” Walz continued.
“We’re supposed to just take their word for it.”
Walz didn’t clarify why he compares Hitler’s opponents to violent criminal gang members, however.
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Democrats initially rallied around illegal alien and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to his native El Salvador in March.
The support from the criminal alien was a symbol of resistance to Trump’s immigration policies.
Several members of Congress, including Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), even traveled to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia.
The Trump administration released a 13-page dossier detailing the evidence suggesting that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member in April.
The report included rulings from immigration courts that found he was a member of the El Salvadoran prison gang.
Abrego Garcia was also known to law enforcement as a suspected human trafficker and domestic abuser.
According to RealClearPolling, 48.3% of Americans approve of Trump’s approach to immigration so far.
A White House fact sheet released in late April showed that border crossings, migrant encounters, and “gotaways” were all down by 93% or more through the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Walz also claimed Trump was trying to intimidate members of Congress.
He was referencing a chaotic May 9 incident involving Democrat New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez Jr.
The Democrat lawmakers were arrested outside an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey.
They denied wrongdoing in a May 11 appearance on CNN.
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy toured the ICE facility in Newark and described her observations during a Monday appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
“ICE has nothing to hide,” Campos-Duffy said.
“They have nothing to be ashamed of.
“This facility is so clean,” she said.
“It has, you know, all kinds of recreation facilities, outdoor soccer field, weight equipment, domino tables.
“It has telephones everywhere with signs next to them of how they can phone numbers to reach their consulate, and also legal facilities, computer web cams.”
“There are doors on the bedrooms and they aren’t even locked,” Campos-Duffy continued.
“The facility actually looks like a high school.”
Walz is considered a possible Democrat candidate for president in the 2028 election cycle.
