Tim Walz’s Daughter Wants to Defund ICE After Minneapolis Shooting

When Privileged Voices Drown Out Facts

Hope Walz just called ICE the Gestapo. Let that sink in for a second. The daughter of Minnesota’s governor, someone who’s enjoyed every privilege American life can offer, just compared federal law enforcement officers to Hitler’s secret police. You know what? This isn’t just ignorant. It’s dangerous.

The facts matter here, even if they’re inconvenient. Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis. They were looking for an illegal alien wanted for violent assault. That’s their job. That’s what we pay them to do. During this operation, a man named Alex Pretti approached them with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.

Now, Hope wants you to believe ICE “brutally beat and murdered” Pretti in broad daylight. She’s calling it an execution. She’s urging people to call their senators and defund the entire agency because of this incident. But here’s the thing about truth. It doesn’t care about your feelings or your political agenda.

The Department of Homeland Security says agents tried to disarm Pretti when he violently resisted. There’s body camera footage being reviewed. There are multiple investigations happening. But Hope Walz has already rendered her verdict from the comfort of her TikTok account.

The Real Gestapo Didn’t Need Self Defense

Let’s talk about that Gestapo comparison because it reveals something rotten in how the left views law enforcement. The actual Gestapo rounded up millions of innocent people based on their ethnicity and religion. They tortured and murdered without trial or evidence. They answered to a totalitarian regime that crushed individual liberty.

ICE agents are enforcing laws passed by Congress. They’re arresting people who entered our country illegally or committed crimes while here. They operate under constitutional constraints with oversight and accountability. Comparing them to Nazi secret police isn’t just wrong. It’s obscene.

This kind of rhetoric poisons the well of public discourse. When you call federal agents Nazis, you’re not making a political argument anymore. You’re dehumanizing people who put on a uniform every day to do a difficult job. You’re painting targets on their backs.

The timing here matters too. This comes after another incident where an ICE agent shot Renee Good, who allegedly weaponized her vehicle against officers. Are there questions about use of force protocols? Sure. Should we examine every shooting carefully? Absolutely. But there’s a massive difference between accountability and abolition.

What the Videos Show and Don’t Show

NBC News reports that eyewitness videos appear to contradict elements of DHS’s account. That’s worth investigating. Transparency matters. But social media videos rarely tell the complete story. They don’t show what happened before someone started recording. They don’t capture what officers perceived as threats in real time.

We’ve been down this road before. Remember how many times we’ve seen partial videos that sparked outrage, only to learn later that body camera footage or additional angles revealed crucial context? I’m not saying the federal agents are automatically right. I’m saying maybe we should wait for actual investigations before demanding we dismantle an entire agency.

Hope Walz doesn’t want to wait though. She’s feeling “profound sadness” and “a lot of anger.” Those are valid emotions. But emotions make terrible policy. Defunding ICE because of one controversial incident would be like shutting down all hospitals because of one case of malpractice.

The Broader War on Enforcement

This isn’t really about one shooting in Minneapolis. It’s about a fundamental rejection of immigration enforcement itself. The left has moved from “comprehensive immigration reform” to “abolish ICE” in record time. They’ve gone from supporting border security to calling it fascism.

What happens when we stop enforcing immigration laws? We get more illegal crossings. We get more criminal aliens roaming free. We get situations exactly like the one that led to this operation in the first place. Someone wanted for violent assault who shouldn’t have been in the country.

Individual liberty requires the rule of law. You can’t have one without the other. When we pick and choose which laws to enforce based on political fashion, we undermine the entire system. We create chaos instead of order.

Hope Walz can call her senators all she wants. But most Americans understand something she apparently doesn’t. We need border security. We need immigration enforcement. We need agencies like ICE to do jobs that nobody else wants to do.

The real question isn’t whether ICE should be funded. It’s whether the daughter of a sitting governor should face any consequences for spreading inflammatory misinformation about federal law enforcement. In a sane world, her father would publicly correct her. He’d explain that comparing American law enforcement to Nazi death squads is unacceptable.

But we don’t live in that world anymore. We live in a world where privileged kids on TikTok can slander federal agents without pushback. Where feelings trump facts. Where “defund” is the answer to every problem.

The agents involved in this shooting will face investigation and scrutiny. That’s appropriate. But they deserve better than trial by social media from someone who’s never faced a violent suspect or made a split second decision under threat. They deserve better than being called Nazis by a governor’s daughter who wouldn’t last five minutes doing their job.

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