Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) daughter, Hope Walz, criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday, labeling the agency as being a “horrible Gestapo” that “cannot be funded.”

In a TikTok video, Hope spoke about a recent Border Patrol agent-involved shooting, which left Alex Pretti, 37, dead. Hope expressed that she was feeling “profound sadness” and “a lot of anger.”

“ICE brutally beat and murdered, executed may be a better word, a resident of the Twin Cities,” Hope said. “A nurse at the Veterans Hospital — in broad daylight, and then they proceeded to lie about it.”

Walz continued to encourage people to call their senators and “tell them not to vote to fund ICE.”

“This horrible Gestapo, essentially, should not be funded, cannot be funded,” Hope added. “So, call your senators — call all the senators, and tell them not to fund ICE, because it is deplorable at this point.”

Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins reported that in a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explained that Border Patrol agents had been “conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault,” when the man — identified as Pretti, approached them “with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun”:

The statement says agents were “conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault.” While conducting the operation, a man approached “U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.”

Officers tried to disarm the man but he “violently resisted.”

NBC News reported that while DHS has stated that “an agent shot Pretti in self-defense after he violently resisted attempts to disarm him,” video footage from eyewitnesses “from various angles appear to contradict elements” of DHS’s “account of events”:

The encounter was recorded by eyewitnesses, and video circulated widely on social media throughout the weekend. DHS has said an agent shot Pretti in self-defense after he violently resisted attempts to disarm him. But eyewitness videos taken from various angles appear to contradict elements of the department’s account of events.

A DHS spokesperson reportedly confirmed to the outlet that “investigators are reviewing body-camera videos from immigration agents” during the recent shooting.

The shooting comes after Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent. Good was accused of having “weaponized her vehicle” against ICE officers.

TUNE IN: Tim Walz’s daughter goes off at ICE.

“This horrible Gestapo… cannot be funded!”

“It is deplorable at this point… I don’t even have words for it!”

“I wish Donald Trump and this entire administration would leave my state the f*ck alone!”pic.twitter.com/4YxrFwuBMb

— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) January 26, 2026

Trump Talks Cooperation with Tim Walz in Minnesota While ICE Operations and Fraud Investigations Continue

President Donald Trump and his officials are releasing conciliatory messages after a weekend when another street activist was killed in a Minneapolis scuffle caused by Democrat-backed, anti-enforcement crowds.

“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,” Trump declared Monday morning, one day after Walz portrayed federal ICE officials as Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo agents.

Trump continued:

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! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, DC, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!

Trump’s comment — “we are looking for are any and all [migrant] Criminals that they have in their possession” — may be a compromise offer where Trump gives up on plans to detain illegals and investigate the Democrats’ alleged fraud crimes.

Or it may be just more diplomacy amid the Democrats’ media-magnified campaign to push federal law enforcement out of the Democrat-run city.

But the federal investigations are also being pushed by Trump’s officials.

“Tom Homan will be managing ICE Operations on the ground in Minnesota to continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” said a statement by Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary. “In addition, Tom will coordinate with those leading investigations into the massive, widespread fraud that has resulted in billions of taxpayer dollars being stolen from law-abiding citizens in Minnesota.”

Homan’s role “is good news for peace, safety, and accountability in Minneapolis,” said Kristi Noem, Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, who also spotlighted the Democrats’ huge corruption scandal in Minnesota:

I have worked closely with Tom over the last year and he has been a major asset to our team — his experience and insight will help us in our wide-scale fraud investigations, which have robbed Americans, and will help us to remove even more public safety threats and violent criminal illegal aliens off the streets of Minneapolis. We continue to call on the leadership in Minnesota to allow for state and local partnership in our public safety mission. Thank you, Mr. President.

In Minnesota, Democrats are working with Antifa attackers to provoke, blame, and escalate their massive resistance to the federal law enforcement agencies who are investigating the Somali-linked welfare fraud projects and are arresting thousands of illegal migrants.

Administration officials and some GOP leaders are countering this strategy by minimizing violence in the streets — and by spotlighting the growing evidence that Democratic Party officials know about and profit from the massive welfare fraud in many states..