The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a rare and scathing rebuke Monday after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz compared federal immigration officers to Nazis and claimed a modern-day “Anne Frank” could be hiding in Minnesota.
Walz’s comments, made during a press conference following the fatal shooting of a nurse who interfered with a Border Patrol operation, triggered immediate backlash. The museum responded publicly, slamming the governor’s attempt to weaponize Holocaust imagery for political purposes.
“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the museum wrote in a statement posted to its official X account. “Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”
Walz had said, “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
The comparison immediately drew criticism from across the political spectrum. But this is not the first time Walz has smeared federal immigration officers. Last year, he referred to ICE agents as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” The rhetoric has only escalated as the Trump administration continues targeted operations in Minnesota.
Walz is not alone. Newly-elected New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill went on CNN over the weekend and claimed ICE agents were like the communist Stasi. California Governor Gavin Newsom, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, accused Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino of dressing “like SS” and leading a “private army.”
The remarks have alarmed law enforcement officials, who say this type of language has directly contributed to an explosion of violent threats and attacks against federal officers. According to officials within the Trump administration, agents and their families are now routinely targeted by radicals emboldened by the rhetoric coming from Democrat leaders.
Federal authorities are now calling on governors and mayors to tone down their language before someone gets killed. But in places like Minneapolis, where politicians like Tim Walz continue to double down, the danger is only growing.
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