WASHINGTON – The Republican Jewish Coalition has taken umbrage at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for likening ICE federal deportation agents to the notorious Gestapo secret police of Nazi Germany 80 years ago. Walz was guilty of “a vile smear that trivializes the Holocaust,” said Coalition spokesperson Sam Markstein. Walz made his Gestapo references in a law school graduation address at the University of Minnesota. According to Markstein, Walz was off-base to “demonize” ICE. Marjsein called ICE agents “part of the thin blue line protecting us every single day at great personal risk.” To compare ICE to Hitler’s Germany is historically absurd, he said: “Tim Walz should know better, but this is what radical Democrats do when they don’t like law enforcement enforcing the law.” While plainly displeased at Walz, Markstein failed to address the ICE excesses to which Walz was referring. The excesses have included thousands of arrests without judge-signed warrants, violations of constitutional rights, and deportations without judicial review.
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In cap and gown. Walz as graduation speaker at University of Minnesota law school graduation.