If Tim Walz has an abundance of anything, it’s gall. Okay, and hypocrisy.
Walz is playing both sides of the street, and it’s pathetic. After months of provocation and rhetoric that have helped fuel anti-ICE hostility in Minnesota, Walz now turns around and pleads with the President to “turn the temperature down” on immigration enforcement.
It comes after Walz encouraged locals to block, confront, and even film federal officers, stoking fear and chaos in Minneapolis. Then, when the predictable result comes — clashes, threats, and violence — he begs for a pullback. That’s exactly how you get disorder instead of order: fan the flames with political grandstanding, then act surprised when people burn. Walz’s appeal to the White House is just another example of political posturing at the expense of public safety and the rule of law:
“I am making a direct appeal to the President,” Walz wrote. “Let’s turn the temperature down. Stop this campaign of retribution. This is not who we are.”
“And an appeal to Minnesotans,” he added. “I know this is scary. We can – we must – speak out loudly, urgently, but also peacefully. We cannot fan the flames of chaos. That’s what he wants.”
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) January 15, 2026
Well, it didn’t take long for the official ICE account on X to respond, and boy howdy:
“The buck stops with you, Governor,” the official ICE account wrote on X. “Tone down the hostile, inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric. Honor our immigration detainers. And work with ICE to remove criminal illegal aliens from MN streets.”
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Walz’s plea is outright absurd. Just a day before begging the President to “turn the temperature down” on federal immigration enforcement, he spent his statewide address accusing ICE of “kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process” and urging Minnesotans to film and confront federal agents in their neighborhoods.
This isn’t leadership — it’s political opportunism with real-world consequences. Walz and his allies fanned outrage after multiple confrontations between federal agents and civilians, including the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman and a separate injury during an ICE action that touched off protests and clashes in the streets.
Now, faced with the chaos that predictably followed, Walz wants someone else to clean it up. The buck truly stops with him — a governor who’s more interested in scoring partisan points than reigning in the violence his rhetoric helped ignite.
