Tim Walz needs to learn a lesson from Florida
Florida gets Immigration enforcement right
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The ongoing unrest in Minneapolis has dominated national headlines for much of the new year. With anti-ICE rioters always on the alert for federal agents to confront them, leading to fatal shootings.
What has not gotten nearly the same amount of attention has been Florida’s efforts to assist the Department of Homeland Security in arresting illegal aliens residing in the state beyond opening Alligator Alcatraz. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey recently accused President Donald Trump of sending the large deployment of federal agents in an act of political retaliation.
“I would just ask you, why is the largest-scale immigration enforcement action taking place where we don’t even have that many undocumented immigrants?” Why would it not take place in Texas or Florida or Utah, where you do actually have a large number of undocumented immigrants?” Frey stated.
The difference, Governor Ron DeSantis pointed out in an interview with me, is that unlike sanctuary states and cities like Minnesota and Minneapolis, local police cooperation with federal immigration agents is mandatory. This results in DHS not having to send extra agents to the state since local law enforcement is able to support them during operations.
Due to Operation Tidal Wave, which started last year, Florida law enforcement agencies have made over 20,000 arrests and handed over the illegal aliens to DHS for processing.
“[DHS doesn’t] have to worry about the resistance. Not only do we want to cooperate at the state level, we’ve mandated local governments to do it. Not every local government in Florida wants to cooperate…The mayors know if they don’t, then I can suspend them and remove them from office,” DeSantis explained.
“We have real teeth in our law to ensure that there’s compliance with that,” he added.
You can watch DeSantis’ full answer here:
While there have been tense moments during operations in states like Florida and Texas, it has not gotten nearly to the same level of chaos in states like Minnesota, Illinois, or California.
When it comes to the DHS-involved shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, most law enforcement experts agree that had the Minneapolis Police Department been allowed to help with crowd control during those incidents, the shootings would have likely never happened.
Instead, MPD and other departments have only recently been allowed to respond to unruly crowds in any meaningful way. Democratic leaders bear most of the blame by not letting local police help the feds with basic practices until it was too late.
It remains to be seen if the street radicals will be less crazy when interacting with federal agents in the Twin Cities now that Border Czar Tom Homan is in charge. My guess is they probably will not.
Tim Walz broke the laws and worse, the confidence of every American citizen. Why isn't this law breaker being charged and indicted? Tim Walz belongs in prison with about half of our US Congress and Senate.
Walz doesn't appear to be fertile learning material.