Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) continues to defy President Donald Trump's efforts to round up and deport dangerous illegal alien criminals. Walz recently declared that Minnesota does not need any further help from the federal government in dealing with political unrest, and he issued a threat.
"I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training prepared to be deployed if necessary," stated Walz.
This comes after the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was shot after defying orders from federal ICE agents to stop her vehicle, then trying to run them over. Associated Press reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem labeled this as an “act of terrorism,” standing firm that ICE was not leaving the state despite the protest of Walz and others.
Hannah Davis is investigations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). She thinks that, if Walz continues on this line of threat, Trump would federalize the Minnesota Guard.
"I think even throwing that out into the ether as an elected politician — you can't say things like that, and it wouldn't go far. I feel like President Trump would have nipped that in the bud almost immediately,” says Davis.
She hopes that Gov. Walz does not continue with those threats or act upon them.
“If anything, he should send in the National Guard in to curve down on the protesting," states Davis.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
"If Gov. Walz or somebody else, Gov. Newsom or Pritzker in Illinois, tries to order either police officers or state troopers or National Guard to actually go against ICE agents, that would be one of those dangerous tipping points,” states Krikorian.
However, he does not think anything would come of it.
“I don't think we would tip because I think you would see the state troopers and the cops and National Guard just saying, ‘What are you, crazy? We're not doing that’," says Krikorian.
