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President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Governor Tim Walz, D-Minn., made a phone call to the Oval Office, with respect to the relentless chaos unleashed by anti-ICE protestors in the streets of Minneapolis.
“Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” the president said on Truth Social.
He added, “I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!”
This comes just hours after the president announced that he is sending Border Czar Tom Homan to manage ICE operations in Minnesota. Homan is also being sent to coordinate with those leading investigations into the state’s massive reported fraud problems.
It also comes after President Trump publicly called on Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to cooperate with the feds and additionally “turn over all illegal aliens” being locally detained.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing on Monday that, if Governor Walz and Mayor Frey implement the “common sense cooperative measures” asked for by the administration, Border Patrol will be pulled out of Minnesota.
“ICE and local law enforcement can peacefully work together, as they are effectively doing in so many other states and jurisdictions,” she told reporters.
President Trump has further called on Congress to pass legislation banning sanctuary cities, which have become hotbeds for criminal illegal aliens to evade law enforcement.
“American cities should be Safe Sanctuaries for Law Abiding American Citizens ONLY, not Illegal Alien Criminals who broke our Nation’s Laws,” he said in a previous statement.
