Tim Walz didn’t stumble into this lie; he built it. For years he’s smeared ICE and Border Patrol as “fascists,” comparing them to the Gestapo, priming his base to see every lawful arrest as a moral atrocity. So when a 55-year-old American woman was arrested after confronting ICE during a neighborhood raid, Walz pounced, framing it as proof that Trump’s agents were snatching up citizens at random.

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.