Democrats thought they’d found the perfect horror story. A trembling “slight woman.” Dark-of-morning ICE arrests. A governor raging about “Gestapo” tactics and American citizens dragged away. Tim Walz went all in on that script. But the facts didn’t just undercut his narrative — they obliterated it. The woman wasn’t targeted for being a citizen. She was arrested for obstru… Continues…
But the record shows something very different. Federal law clearly criminalizes resisting or interfering with officers carrying out their duties. The article Walz cited even concedes that point. The woman wasn’t arrested for her passport; she was arrested for refusing lawful commands in an active operation. Walz stripped that context because panic serves his politics. Trump is enforcing laws Democrats are too cowardly to repeal, so they attack the enforcers instead — and hope voters never read past the headlines.
