Tim Walz Demands Answers After University Student Detained by ICE

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Mar 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM EDT


Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a student at the University of Minnesota was detained by federal immigration authorities. "The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research," Walz wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers," he added. Newsweek contacted the office of Walz and DHS for further comment outside of office hours.

Why It Matters

President Donald Trump has vowed to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the country as he looks to fulfill his campaign vow of mass deportations. The Republican leader has granted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the authority to conduct arrests in or near sensitive locations such as schools and universities.

The incident surrounding the University of Minnesota student detained by immigration authorities has raised concerns regarding enforcement operations near educational institutions. Walz, who was Kamala Harris' running mate, lost the presidential election to the Trump-JD Vance ticket. Immigration played a key role in the 2024 election.

What To Know

ICE agents detained the graduate student from the University of Minnesota earlier this week, the university said in a statement on Friday, describing the incident as "deeply concerning."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-university-minnesota-student-detained-ice-immigration-2052731

[NotHardly]

1. ICE/the new SS

...everyone of us are in deep shit with these MFers in charge. They can disappear anyone, citizen & non-citizen alike...and it has already caused numerous citizens to be detained and held.

[erronis]

5. None of us are safe. Born in the USA or not, white or not, male or not, whatever.

They'll pick their targets and there will be mistakes and collateral damage. People of all shades will lose their freedom and lives because of this new SS.

[bdamomma]

45. This

regime has got to go, Muskrat, and the SF felon. And he thinks he's going to have a 3rd term????

He's out of his mind. He's the biggest threat along with his South African Apartheid Ketamine abuser.
Stephen Miller and his Project 2025 handlers.

[mountain grammy]

22. That's why it's so important that a Governor is raising a stink about this

Good for Tim Walz. Every governor should be doing this. the pressure must come from our elected reps. I've been contacting mine several times a week. Get involved, for fuck's sake! While it's still an option!

[hlthe2b]

2. I love that Tim Walz is speaking out and being an activist, but where is Kamala Harris?

I'd likewise ask that of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, GW Bush * (I know, I know) and others... We need DEM leadership right now. IF it were not for Walz, AOC, and independent Senator Bernie Sanders (as well as a few brave Congressional Reps and Senators), we would be mute.

But still, I am really bothered that only Walz is speaking out after they BOTH warned us of what is going on now. I just don't get it.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Remember that the party has blamed Kamala Harris for the loss

She didn't "do enough". She didn't "do this" and didn't "do that".

Why would she step into the hornet's nest of people who continue to be in denial and won't see that this election WASN'T about -

"Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".

They are still "blaming the victim". It's why Michelle Obama refused to engage.

[hlthe2b]

8. Maybe because it is the RIGHT thing to do? And as soon as she steps forward, she WILL get media attention.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Nope

There are those in our party who still don't "get it".

I wouldn't put myself into that position to become a lightning rod for the still-seething hate from the toxic males out there. It's not worth it. When you still have people like Walz hand-wringing, the time isn't right.

[hlthe2b]

11. Don't be condescending with ME. I GET IT. As do everyone else here. You have your opinions, fine...

But, do NOT be condescending to me.

And, if I thought I could help SAVE this country with my voice which has impact as Harris' does, I certainly would hope I would not hold back out of hurt feelings or resentment that some in my party criticized me during the election. Do you really think Harris is that shallow? She may be hesitant, but I do not believe I was mislead by someone who did not care except for her own political future.

Do you really think the situation right now is such that you are right to claim Walz's heightened concern is mere "hand-wringing?"

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I value your opinion

but right now, at this moment, Harris will be skewered unmercifully. It has nothing to do with HER and any "shallowness". It has to do with a populace who still doesn't "get it" and doesn't seem to be in a hurry to do so... at least yet.

I bookmarked a couple articles that articulate the point -

Huff Post - "A Black Woman's Open Letter To Kamala Harris" - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-women-open-letter-kamala-harris_n_672d7097e4b0933e82c96067

The Guardian "Black women on what Harris’s loss says about the US: ‘Voters failed to show up for her’" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/harris-loss-black-women

[hlthe2b]

16. So how does our (global "OUR") staying silent help that? The populace has disdain for Democratic party

right now because they perceive we don't fight back. And if our current and former leaders do NOT fight back now, then WHEN?

I honor your opinion but this is not a political season ever experienced. This administration will dismantle this country in the time it takes for any thoughtful months/years of analysis. Our silence is sealing our fate.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. There are PLENTY of other politicos out there who can speak out

and many of them HAVE but the media won't cover it and we refuse to BUY media to run it 24/7 like the RW noise machine does.

You have Democratic women governors like Laura Kelly (KS) who has apparently been keeping her head down and powder dry, along with Janet Miller (ME), who was also MIA until recently when she gave it her best shot and then got shot down. Gretchen Whitmer (MI) was blazing at first but has suddenly disappeared.

It has to be a coordinated effort from the bottom up and such a thing is gelling. But you can't put it on ONE person who is no longer in office and who was apparently roundly rejected by her own party.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. The 92%

Is with her. I'm with her. For all we know she and Doug are making quiet exit plans for their extended families. They should leave. I do NOT trust this evil cabal with VP Harris.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. They have the gauntlet all ready to fire up the minute she steps out.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. F*cking A

Same with April 5th. If we come out in force - there will
be extreme violence towards Black bodies ordered by The Felon.

I'm so proud of our ability to not take the bait. Older white Americans are doing a hell of a job. If my mom was here - she'd be right out there in thick of it as a white woman - to protect her Black children and grandchildren.

I never want to see or hear a snotty comment about Boomers ever again. In my area? They are leading the charge.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. The boomers - and especially the mid-late 70 year olds are out there!

I am 10 years their junior and don't know where they get their energy from.

Through scanning all these different news sites, I have stumbled on a number of other "protests" that are going on including one I saw that was protesting "the media" and doing so outside of Fox News & NBC HQ in D.C. (the blogger who sponsored it used to be in the 45 first administration). She had a livestream of it -

[iemanja]

52. Kamala's voicing her views does not

“Save” the country. If you truly think she has that power, explain how.

Why would you expect her to speak out on this of all cases? Walz is speaking out because he is the governor of the state where the student lived. Why do you consider this particular case so much more important than the other deportation cases happening around the country?

[hlthe2b]

53. Given you have tried to create a strawman, stating what I never said, IGNORE.

That seems to be a pattern with you for some inexplicable reason.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. She ran a great 90 DAY campaign. This is on those who STAYED HOME.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. That hasn't stopped them from blaming HER

including insinuating all kinds of wild things about the amount of money raised and spent while ignoring the fact that a SINGLE "ILLEGAL ALIEN" from South Africa, DONATED just under 1/4 of what the Democrats raised in total, BY HIMSELF.

She has been victimized by all kinds of people. It's not for HER to fix.

[LisaM]

6. Walz is still a sitting governor and the University of Minnesota is in his purview.

At this point, Kamala Harris is a private citizen. Bernie Sanders is also currently in office, though I don't see that his rallies are producing results.

I don't think that Walz and Harris are in the same position at the moment.

[hlthe2b]

7. I am (as is probably everyone here) fully aware that Tim Walz is the governor of Minnesota now. Really?

Harris has a voice and will garner attention--especially NOW. That is nonsense that she can't speak because she is not in office. One can speak out, not because it is the political thing to do for future office, but because it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO. And because her position--even out of office--ensures the media will report it/cover it.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. They are STILL throwing grenades at Biden and literally killing him off day after day

And he was easily one of the most consequential Presidents since FDR.

The election and the misunderstanding of the results, requires way more time to digest.

[hlthe2b]

12. Honest to gawd do you REALLY think we have the next 2, 3, 4 years to "digest" and ponder the results of

the last election? Really? We may not even have a 2026 mid-term election, so while you ponder and our most influential former leaders are almost all silent, well, this is why I get messages every damned week from former colleagues moving out of the country.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. There are those of us who KNOW what happened

and those who will not "see".

If it takes 2, 3, 4 years for some to "get it", then THAT is on them. There is too much denial and in the meantime, there of victims of the denials, who will suffer.

[hlthe2b]

21. You have seriously contradicted yourself.

;shrug:

[BumRushDaShow]

29. No contradiction

The "overlay" has been a part of this nation since its founding and it rears up in its ugliest form, in cycles. We are now entering yet another ugly cycle. Some of us have ancestors who lived through the previous cycles from back in the 1800s (like myself). Trying to deal with it is difficult and even more so in modern times with a media magnified by methods that never existed even 30 years ago.

[hlthe2b]

23. What happened is in the past. We are on a razor's edge of losing our democracy NOW.

Yet, you want no one to speak out because they are not running for office or they are butt-hurt because some of the electorate was stupid in the LAST election? As rapidly as Trump is moving with his Project 2025, the rear view of the past election is going to look like a century ago in a matter of weeks.

There is ZERO time to relitigate the last election. Nor to hide our most capable voices from speaking out.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. The "past" has been recycled MULTIPLE times in this country over the past 235 years

It's a Wash. Rinse. Repeat. moment.

It's not just about the last election - it's about the history of this country and its inability to deal with certain segments of the population and it inevitably leads to massive discord. The head explosions after the election of Barack Obama as President became flaming goo with the election of Kamala Harris as VP.

What was her mantra?

WE ARE NOT GOING BACK

And WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING RIGHT NOW??? Making sure TO TAKE US "BACK".

If people can't "see that", then there is nothing more that I or she can do.

[hlthe2b]

31. Wrong! That is incredibly naive'... I will just leave it there. Read some damned history.

What is going on now is NOT a routine cycle in this country or elsewhere in the western democracies. Certainly in the past dictatorships of S. America, Eastern Europe past and in Hitler's Nazi realm but not here. We've had some horrible politics in this country, but nothing approaching what Trump is trying to do.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. My family LIVED that history

Great-grandparents who could NOT go to white colleges but did go to Atlanta University (one of the HBCUs), graduating in 1883 & 1884. A grandfather who was told that they already HAD their 2 NIGGERS when he applied to Penn Medical School here in Philly in the 1920s but told him he was welcome to go to Penn Dental, which he did and graduated in 1924. A father who fought in a SEGREGATED ARMY in WW2. A mother who could fucking teach in the high schools here in Philly DESPITE have a a double major and sec ed. credentials because black teachers could only teach in elementary schools.

IT IS FUCKING ROUTINE and it is HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

[hlthe2b]

36. I am not equating slavery/Jim Crowe. But, to suggest we are in an expected cycle that is NO worse than all the

cycles before is incredibly naive--especially since this group of Fascists want to ERASE any progress made to date--including Black, Brown, and Woman's history, and any and all tolerance, equality, and antidiscrimination.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. THAT is the cycle.

Marginalized communities "make progress", the "majority" white male land-owning gentry "get mad", and BOOM. Out with that and in with the oppression and removal of rights.

That is what happened with "Reconstruction" right after the Civil War. It happened again after the "roaring '20s" (e.g., "Harlem Renaissance" and one of my great uncles was a head-knocking Magistrate Judge here in Philly during the '20s). It happened after WW2. It happened in the '60s.

Black Congressman in the 1870s (from the South) after the Civil War -



This bullshit about "DEI" has proceeded to try to ERASE history AGAIN that was actually FOUND AGAIN after being PREVIOUSLY ERASED.

They are doing nothing "new". They did it before and they are doing it again.

[hlthe2b]

39. Then why are YOU so content to sit back and analyze what went wrong with the last election INSTEAD

of lighting a fire under all our leadership and people to FIGHT THIS. By the time we do what you propose, it will be TOO late. And if you think things cannot get as bad as the worst this country has experienced (or any other, for that matter), it damned well can--and WILL if we do not get serious and STOP relitigating the last election.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. I'm not "analyzing" I'm TELLING you what has happened

There is no "analyzing" necessary from my standpoint but apparently there is a need for others to finally "figure it out". The last election WAS part of the "Cycle".

My exhortation has been that if people refuse to accept the problem, then they will never find a solution.

The "majority" demographic here has to fix it. To expect the victims to "fix" it is why we are here in the first place. It gives people an easy out and someone to "blame" like they have done to Harris.

When you STILL have so-called "Democrats" sputtering about "Political Correctness" and "Identity Politics" - THAT is something "the majority" needs to deal with.

[hlthe2b]

43. Fixating on the past instead of responding to the NOW and what is clearly COMING...

I just don't get it. The NOW is a pending calamity and catastrophe that no election---two years from now-- CAN fix all of the damage---if there is anything left to fix. Yet that past election seems to be all you want to focus on. My suggestion that ALL of us--our past and current and future leaders--including Harris, Obama, others-- have a role to speak out NOW seems to have triggered you. I just don't get it. We fight together NOW or we fall together. The past is the past. We HAVE to react to the NOW!

[BumRushDaShow]

44. There is an old saying about how "history repeats"

and MY point is that "history is repeating" NOW. The last election is simply a repeat of a typical "backlash".

You ignore the past and it will return because you refuse to recognize the signs.

And as a note - if you believe that during a period when black Americans were LEGALLY UNABLE TO VOTE (something STILL happening NOW with more and more draconian laws being enacted nationwide) or unable to buy homes in certain areas, or were unable to even eat in certain restaurants, swim at certain public swimming pools, or even be buried in "white cemeteries", let alone drink at certain water fountains, etc., was somehow still "democracy", but now suddenly in 2025, "democracy is ending", is just ludicrous.

Your dismissal of Jim Crow, which WAS "legal" (dejure) discrimination, is telling.

There are whole demographics who have YET to experience any "democracy" throughout this country's history and to continue to ignore this fact has been the point of getting this history taught in the schools, which was happening until we started experiencing the erasure that is underway.

Jim crow was ANTI-DEMOCRACY, and obviously slavery was as well.

And as another historic note about this country's "modern" colonizing behavior - both Hawai'i and Alaska were not somehow part of the 13 original colonies. The Kingdom of Hawai'i was overthrown by a corporate head and much later made a state just a few years before our past President Obama was born there (which itself caused the manufactured head explosions demanding a "long form birth certificate" from him). And as has recently been discussed in the news, Alaska was "purchased" from Russia after the Civil War. We STILL have "colonies" - all those territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. VI., and the Mariana Islands, much of it the result of the Spanish-American War.

THAT is what is feeding this "territory lust" by the lunatic at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

This is the problem that the majority demographic needs to solve and sending out minorities as cannon fodder indicates that there are still those who are not ready to deal with the underlying problem.

There is a term that is used by the racists about people like Biden, who made it possible for both Obama and Harris to reach the high offices that they did. I.e., they deem him "a NIGGER LOVER". And THAT is why they continue to pummel Biden unmercifully into a pulp to this day. People like Biden would be lynched right alongside a black victim.

There is NOTHING MORE that Obama/Harris/Biden can say that will EVER be listened to. They said what they had to say and it was rejected.

[electric_blue68]

46. Just a small side story about black teachers...

"because black teachers could only teach in elementary schools."

OK, this was Junior Highschool. My white parents (especially mom bc I was around her more) taught me to be aware, and anti-racist.

The first Black teacher I ever had was in '67: a woman (not that unusual), but she was the science teacher! Which I though was very cool, and maaaybe not that common.

I remember the container of "swamp water" she opened. 😄 Ick, the smell! We all moved to the back half of the classroom.
She put a drop on a slide, and under the microscope we saw microbes.

The coolest thing was a machine that split Water (H²O) into it's components of Hydrogen & Oxygen. There were 2 nozzles. Balloons attached to each. Because there's twice the Hydrogen atoms, to Oxygen atoms; the hydrogen balloon grew twice as big as the oxygen one. Very, very cool.

[BumRushDaShow]

48. Ain't science fun???

"Lab" was why I ended up majoring in Chemistry in college and made it a career.

My mom wanted to teach HS history in the '50s - right around the time of Brown v Ed. Neither she nor her best friends (who ended becoming our godmothers) were allowed to teach in high school - despite having Sec. Ed credentials. She ended up becoming a Social Worker instead (first for the state of PA and then for Philly - all before I was born). One of my mom's friends ended up teaching math (which was her major) in elementary school and the other was also a math teacher but fought it and finally got into a high school and eventually made it up the latter in the school district's hierarchy as a big wig.

So many obstacles. It's non-stop. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year. Decade after decade. Century after century.

[electric_blue68]

49. Ah, Chemistry, interesting. I get some of it. My favorite Sciences are the Earth Sciences, and Space Sciences...

What did you do- chemistry-wise? I know there's inorganic, and organic chem. It's kind of interesting, and I love the visual look of beakers, testubes, etc.. And the ?spectral analysis machine.

Oh, boy, HS History around the era of Brown V Ed - talk about Historic Times!I hope your mom found satisfaction in her SW career, and whatever her friends, and your godmothers became.

(HIgher) Math: one bane of my school existance! Algebra, Calculous, Trig! Eghads!
Unfortunately I fit the stereotype of "girls are not good at math.". I did find kind of fascinating in 6th grade- the math "bases".

I did pretty well in Geometry. I attribute that to my highly visual artistic nature! And reading about the rather wild math domain of Topology in a Science book at home, was something I got some of. Maybe again, the visual attribute.

Glad one of your mom's friends got to advance.

Well, between misogyny, and racism there are tough roads still to tread.

[BumRushDaShow]

50. My senior year research was organo-metallic chemistry

But in work life for the feds, it was analytical chemistry. In either case, lots of prep work but also having to use the noggin to do conversions (like moles/liter of whatever I was analyzing and diluting, etc).

As part of that chem major (ACS certification track), I had to take 3 semesters of calculus and 3 semesters of physics, so was sitting in classes with math majors, physics majors, and engineering majors (all kinds - electrical, chemical, mechanical, etc).

Fun stuff! NOT!

Getting women into STEM can be a chore - not so much attracting them, but helping them to stay there against all odds.

And my mom became a stay-at-home mom when I was born but I heard about her travels and experiences around the state as a SW like having to take children to the now-closed Pennhurst Hospital/Asylum facility for those with mental illness/brain disorders, etc. (they had horrible names for them back then).

And she met my dad through his sister who was a coworker when she was working for the city

[Hekate]

14. Appreciate your take on this. Kicking Joe Biden in the teeth was only one piece. Blaming Kamala, jeez.

My lifelong political party has a nasty habit of turning on politicians who don’t satisfy their every fantasy, and pronto. Turning on them, beating the crap out of them — and then wondering why they don’t attempt to ride to our rescue when we get yet another GOPer in the White House, worse than the last.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. When you have people like (unfortunately) YOUR governor

palling around with people like Bill Maher and Joe Rogan and calling Democrats "toxic", THIS is the type of thing that very explicitly demonstrates this problem of "toxic masculinity" and racism that exists within our party.

They are willing to throw what is probably 60% of the "base" (which includes women) under the bus.

[hlthe2b]

20. All of that would apply in and after any other election. I'd agree. This is NOT like the aftermath

of ANY other election in ANY of our lifetimes--nor probably way before that. Nor has there ever been so much at stake on such a rapid trajectory of irreparable damage/destruction.

I'm not sure what it is going to take if even DUers seeing EVERYTHING being thrown at us--probably among the most aware people in this country-- include some still wanting to do post-election analysis when our entire government has largely been irreparably dismantled. It would be nice to think the talk of invading Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal and forcing NATO to come after US under Article 5 to defend the first two is just paranoia. When we find that it is NOT, it will be too late.

What part of that is appropriate to merely dismiss because we want to treat all that is going on like a typical Republican administration and as we have always done before? Nothing about what is going on is as we have experienced before.

I don't blame Harris or Walz or Biden for the loss of this past election. But, I do blame them and ALL OF US if we sit back and let the worst happen to this country, while treating this as if we have all the time in the world to "regroup" and analyze and review "after-election" reports while the nation's future burns.

[mountain grammy]

24. Bingo!!!

[question everything]

32. Walz has the authority of a governor. The others do not

[Ontheroad]

3. The irony of President Musk having ICE detain people here on legitimate student visas.

It's a like a giant metaphor for the entire administration.

[LW1977]

25. Nazi scumbags!

[GopherGal]

41. They're using literal Gestapo Tactics

"Nacht und Nebel" it was called in the 1940s.

[Blue Owl]

42. The DIFFERENCE our country would be right now if Harris/Walz were in office

Is absolutely staggering…..

What a grave mistake the MAGAts have made…..

[electric_blue68]

47. And those Who Stayed Home!!! 😬

[iemanja]

51. We know that this was a business student

Not connected with Palestine protests. The local news reported that their Visa was rescinded after a DUI. That, however, does not justify extra-legal abduction and deportation.