Tim Walz calls ICE a 'modern-day Gestapo.' Agency calls comparison 'sickening.'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I agree with Governor Walz

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/tim-walz-calls-ice-gestapo/83746284007/

Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election, is facing criticism from officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after comparing federal law enforcement agents implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown to a Nazi-era political police force.

The comments came during the Democrat's commencement speech at the University of Minnesota Law School graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 17, in which he referred to the Trump administration's rapid and controversial deportations, including of pro-Palestinian activists on college campuses and immigrants.

“Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz said in his remarks......

Walz has been a frequent critic of Trump and did not hold back his disapproval during the commencement speech, focusing on what he says is the administration's repeated violation of the rule of law.

"This is what the crumbling of the rule of law looks like in real time," Walz said to the audience of law graduates. "And it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared − a tyrant abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies."

[ms liberty]

1. Well then maybe they shouldn't act like f*ucking nazis

Amirite?

[Walleye]

6. Right, they want to be Nazis but they don't want anybody to call them that

[claudette]

2. Walz is right

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Awwwwwwww did they get their feefees hurt?

[Ocelot II]

4. If they don't want to be equated with the Gestapo they shouldn't behave like the Gestapo.

Gestapo is an acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei, "secret state police."

The Gestapo operated without civil restraints. It had the authority of “preventive arrest,” and its actions were not subject to judicial appeal. Thousands of leftists, intellectuals, Jews, trade unionists, political clergy, and homosexuals simply disappeared into concentration camps after being arrested by the Gestapo. The political section could order prisoners to be murdered, tortured, or released. Together with the SS, the Gestapo managed the treatment of “inferior races,” such as Jews and Roma (Gypsies). During World War II the Gestapo suppressed partisan activities in the occupied territories and carried out reprisals against civilians.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gestapo

So tell me how ICE is different?

[SheltieLover]

5. Walz is a national treasure, imo

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. If you act like the gestapo, then it is fair to compare you to the gestapo

[SSJVegeta]

8. The comparison IS sickening.

Particularly because it is accurate. The truth hurts in more ways than one.

[republianmushroom]

9. Tim nails it to the front door for the world to see.

[dflprincess]

10. If the jackboot fits...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. Hey ICE,

what's the matter, truth hitting too close to home?

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Yes

EVERY Dem politician should be bombarding Trump and the Republican Party with this every day...

[Hekate]

15. Poking away again, I see

[Hekate]

14. Gov. Walz is a gem. If ICE doesn't like it they should stop acting like the Gestapo. Jackbooted thugs.

[Karasu]

16. Then don't mindlessly obey fascists who don't give a fuck about the law and insist on ignoring it no matter how many

courts tell them otherwise.

Until that day comes, the shoe fucking fits, assholes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. The irony is amazing

[struggle4progress]

19. The guys who deport folk to foreign concentration camps with no hope of return?

Why would anyone compare them to Gestapo?

[Initech]

20. No it's accurate and Tom Homan is a fucking maniac who should do hard time!