Walz spars with DHS over ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric about ICE officers in Minnesota

A high-stakes battle between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and the Department of Homeland Security escalated Thursday as both sides traded accusations online in the midst of a massive federal immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. 

The digital standoff follows a chaotic Wednesday night in Minneapolis, where a DHS officer conducting a traffic stop shot an illegal Venezuelan immigrant. 

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DHS said the illegal immigrant fled the scene and “violently assaulted” the officer alongside two others armed with a snow shovel and a broomstick.

Walz issued a “direct appeal to the President” on X, asking to “turn the temperature down” in Minnesota, calling ICE’s presence a “campaign of retribution.” Walz also