Overview
- Walz likened ICE agents to “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo” during a May commencement speech at the University of Minnesota Law School
- During a June 12 House Oversight Committee hearing, GOP lawmakers including Tom Emmer and James Comer demanded that Walz retract his analogy and apologize
- Republicans pointed to recent ICE raids in Los Angeles where agents faced rock-throwing riots and leaked location details to underscore threats to officer safety
- DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused Democratic officials of vilifying ICE and said inflammatory rhetoric has fueled assaults on agents
- Rep. Pat Fallon cited data showing 299,000 illegal immigrant arrests and 513,000 charges in Texas over the past 13 years to dispute the Gestapo comparison