DHS Slams Tim Walz for Describing ICE as ‘Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’
Walz running his mouth again, even calling Stephen Miller an “aspiring fascist.”
The Department of Homeland Security tore into failed Democratic VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for his disgusting comments about ICE.
Walz made the comments during the commencement speech at the University of Minnesota Law School.
It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.
Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.
It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.
Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will… https://t.co/6jcGRVPuyC
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 18, 2025
Walz spent his time trying to instill fear into the students, accusing President Donald Trump of finding “new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.”
Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons—no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.
To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial. We’re supposed to just take their word for it.
Walz also described Stephen Miller as an “aspiring fascist” while insisting his comments are not hyperbole.
I cannot find a full video of the speech, but here’s the transcript:
GOV. TIM WALZ: The court doesn’t always get it right. Nixon’s Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, chose to step aside rather than follow through on a criminal president’s unlawful order. Well, once again, in this pivotal moment in history, lawyers are our first and last line of defense.
When you join the bar, you’re going to swear an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution and the laws of your state and nation. Elected leaders like me take the same oath. That means that, no matter what we do or where we work, we share not only a moral duty but a professional obligation to defend the rule of law.
That’s a pretty big deal. The rule of law is the foundation of pretty much everything we care about. It’s what lets us settle our differences peacefully, makes it possible to start or grow a business, and empowers us to stand here and exchange ideas freely. Without the rule of law, everything else crumbles away, and that’s where you all come in.
Right now, more than any other time in my lifetime, we need you to live up to the oath that you’re about to take, because I have to be honest with you: you are graduating into a genuine emergency. Every single day, the President of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.
Now, I get it—for some of you out there, some would say this is getting way too political for a commencement address. But I would argue I wouldn’t be honoring my oath if I didn’t address this head-on.
I’m going to start with the flashing red light: Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons—no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.
To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial. We’re supposed to just take their word for it. When duly elected members of Congress tried to exercise their constitutional right of oversight at an ICE facility, they get shoved around and threatened with arrest. When courts told them repeatedly to knock it off, they brazenly defy them.
Meanwhile, we have an aspiring fascist in Stephen Miller on TV talking about suspending habeas corpus. All of you know this: that’s only used in times of rebellion or emergency, neither of which is happening right now. By the way, they’re not only kicking out folks who are undocumented here, they’re kicking out citizens. A few weeks ago, they kicked out three children, all under 8 years old. One of them had brain cancer, for Christ’s sake.
It’s not hyperbole to say we’re not far from a world where anyone could get that knock at the door, and there’s no guarantee you’d get your day in court or that you’d ever make it home alive from whatever corner of the world they stick you in.
Then you have a Vice President who, when not getting chastised by various popes, is offering up horrific arguments—horrific arguments. It is his view that due process is optional. I don’t know what the hell they teach at Yale, but the Constitution is pretty clear. It doesn’t say “only if it’s convenient.” It’s crystal clear.
Here’s the thing: due process isn’t just lawyer speak. It’s a right that stretches back centuries. It was wrested away from kings, that heroes fought and died for, and we’re just going to surrender it? Surrender it to Donald Trump, a guy whose only knowledge of the law is by being a criminal defendant himself?
I am going to talk about it. It’s happening in front of our eyes. I’m going to talk about this damn jet. I don’t know if you heard it. The President is getting this—I’m a little obsessive about things that really irritate the crap out of me, and this type of stuff—because this palace in the sky is getting from the Qatari government, which he gets to keep for himself when he’s done.
Let’s be very clear: it’s a flying bribe, blatantly unconstitutional. Even worse, this whole deal was signed off on by the Attorney General of the United States, ostensibly our nation’s top lawyer, famously an independent job. But now, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is acting as the President’s personal attorney, and, weirdly enough, coincidentally enough, she happens to be a lobbyist for the government of Qatar.
This is what the crumbling of the rule of law looks like in real time, and it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: a tyrant abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.
Look, I get it. There are nervous folks on my side of the aisle. They don’t want us to touch any of this. I keep hearing this: “Oh, the polling, really, it sucks talking about this. It’s a distraction from more important issues.” Consultants steer away from talking about this rule of law stuff. But caring about this stuff isn’t partisanship or politics—it’s patriotism. The rule of law, it’s the whole ball game.
What you stand for is what makes America, America. If we don’t fight back now, why did we get elected, and why did we become attorneys to defend the law?
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We dodged two bullets.
We dodged two blithering idiots.
Dum dum bulkets like in the Toon Town scenes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
All they have left is fear mongering. Not a shred of an original thought anywhere.
Question for Walz: If Trump really had a Gestapo, you’d already be making dumb speeches behind electrified barbed wire.
Note how the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks are fond of flippantly co-opting and exploiting the Holocaust for political purposes, while simultaneously gleefully allying with, whitewashing, lionizing and enabling the German National Socialists’ spiritual successors — contemporary, goose-stepping, genocidal and Jew-hating Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists/Muslim terrorists.
The wretched Dhimmi-crats apparently don’t see any inconsistency or hypocrisy inherent in these two postures.
I think the most gracious – and accurate – thing you can say about Tim Walz is that he is a fool. 🤡
And as to Mrs. Walz, a lunatic. 🤪
Mrs Walz is apparently an ANC fan of “necklacing” people she doesn’t like. The smell of burning tires fills her soul.
I was going to opine that self-styled “knucklehead,” Tampon Tim, is a clown, but, fools and clowns often wear multiple hats.
Clowns are meant to be amusing
I don’t know why, but clowns have always given me the jim-jams. They throw off a vibe that screams “avoid!”.
Gestapo pretty accurately describes the FBI under Democrats — the political police of the Democratic party. Although the Nazi Gestapo were exponentially worse.
But just a reminder. Many of those Rain agents still work for the FIB and want their identities hidden so they can’t be held to account for their action.
So I believe the FIB are Democratic Party Gestapo.
The DHS, not so much.
“Rogue” not rain.
Don’t you just love autoincorrect?
Just as the Dems really love autopen….
I am of the opinion that “rogue” defines the majority of them.
The term has ALWAYS described the FBI.
Walz is not a patriot.
Of course not. He’s a Democrat.
This kind of talk doesn’t help either Waltz or his party. I’m sure he knows this, but like others in his party, he just can’t stop. Many alcoholics know they are wrecking their bodies with drink, but just can’t stop. Such is the nature of addictions.
Waltz should not be injecting politics into a commencement speech. This should be a happy time for the graduating students, and he’s spoiling it. Again he just can’t stop. I’ve witnessed other Democrats doing the same thing. I remember Madeleine Albright giving a commencement speech where she told the graduating students to vote Democratic. That part was missing from the transcript of the speech, but I remember it clearly. So Waltz’s actual speech might be much worse than what’s in the transscript.
One wonders who the genius was who said
“Ooh! Let’s have Tampon Tim, the WhiteManCodeBreaker do this year’s commencement address! The students will love him!”
Obama needed a VP dumber than he was as insurance against impeachment -> Joe Biden.
Joe Biden needed a VP dumber than he was as insurance against impeachment -> Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris needed a VP candidate dumber than she was, had an enormously difficult time finding anyone after a nationwide search, and finally came up with -> Tampon Timmy.
(Not an original thought, just a really good one that I am borrowing)
Just imagine who would be the VP candidate if Tampon Tim was ever nominated for president. Frankly I can’t.
This would be a good contest though..
I’ll start if off: Stacy Abrams
Maxine Waters, if she’s still alive at that point. Or, AOC.
AOC will never accept second place.
She wants to earn the Oval Office on her own meretriciousness.
I find it always interesting watching people (or a whole group of people/supporters) shooting themselves in the foot
Ready! Aim! Fire!!
again
dems are the communistnazis of our time
their actions and agenda the same throughout history
government controls the people
On March 18th Tampon Tim posted, “If you need a little boost during the day, check out Tesla stock, $225 and dropping.”
If you had ignored Tampon Tim’s stock advice your Tesla stock is now worth $338.
So a $123 profit in two months.
Tampon Tim’s stock trading advice is better than listening to Jim Cramer.
the dems knowwwww this talk doesnt play well with the moderates of their party
thats why they do it
they know the future of america is left of center at best
even the “conservatives” of the scotus show/prove that with pro lefty rulings
lower courts can control the fed
illegals are citizens
(2020 election) PA can violate their own laws and change voting rules on the spot
and thats a conservative leaning court?!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!
People are being “disappeared”? From here, maybe. But they’re reappearing elsewhere. This is not “disappearing” someone.
How can I contribute to Walz’s 2028 presidential campaign?
Probably Act Blue unless that money laundering scheme was closed down.
Treasonous Tim’s unit probably thanks their lucky stars that Tampon Tim bugged out rather than deploy with them. Would you want this awipe watching your back?
Weirdo Walz is a nutter. Needs to be canceled.
If Trump was even 1/1000th of the totalitarian they try to claim he is they would be absolutely afraid to say something like that
“I’m going to start with the flashing red light: Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets.”
Thanks for that, Tim. Now do Biden’s FBI.
If we’re replaying ww2, weren’t the only hordes storming the borders *into* N-zi Germany called the Allied forces?
The Democrats support the modern invasion. I’m starting to wonder if they still support D-Day.
For a man whose campaign included rejecting the 1st Amendment to accuse others of fascism is pure projection. I’d call it laughable, but I’m not sure that it’s all that easy to laugh at fascism.