{"id":62547,"date":"2026-01-22T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62547"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:36:55","slug":"the-question-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62547","title":{"rendered":"The Question Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/josephchalfant\/2026\/01\/20\/why-did-tim-walz-and-jacob-frey-release-nearly-500-criminal-aliens-n2669795?fbclid=IwY2xjawPfEspleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeicYHyHeDX527oguH4Iy9EP9zG39wZ1Ezq3bfsMfuwwhuHLMFg_fB0TZc3r4_aem_dlq2_U4UNV7mZT3MdEeNCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> posted an article with this headline, &#8220;Why Did Tim Walz and Jacob Frey Release Nearly 500 Criminal Aliens?&#8221; That is a very good question. The probable reason is that their sentences or holding time were up and he didn&#8217;t want to turn them over to the <span class=\"fc-falcon\">The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<b>ICE<\/b>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cFor example: One of the things we&#8217;ve asked Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey is to give us just the criminals you have in jail,\u201d said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. \u201cThey&#8217;ve released 490 murderers, and rapists, and drug traffickers onto their streets, rather than just give them to us \u2014 and that\u2019s what I don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Trump administration has argued that Democrat politicians in Minnesota have conspired to impede federal immigration enforcement operations, resulting in subpoenas for Walz, Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;In the interview, Noem also disputed the claim that federal agents have strayed from standard practices. \u201cWe\u2019re doing the same thing that law enforcement has done for years \u2014 under this administration, under the Biden administration \u2014 all of them,\u201d Noem stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge in December, ICE has apprehended 3,000 aliens in Minnesota alone. The \u201cWorst of the Worst\u201d were featured on Noem\u2019s social media accounts on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Noncooperation with ICE seems to be a Democrat policy. That is puzzling to me. I think most Americans want criminals in jail or out of their neighborhoods, why would the Democrats stand so firmly on this issue? Right now Americans may not understand that criminals are being let out into their neighborhoods, but eventually they will. If the policy of letting illegal alien criminals out of jail, we can expect more violence in our cities in the future. Eventually that violence will make its way out to the rural areas of the country. I know a few rural sheriffs who will not put up with this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article with this headline, &#8220;Why Did Tim Walz and Jacob Frey Release Nearly 500 Criminal Aliens?&#8221; That is a very good question. The probable reason is that their sentences or holding time were up and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19052,15573,19051,18768,19053,11619,19050],"class_list":["post-62547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general-keith-ellison","tag-criminal-aliens","tag-department-of-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem","tag-governor-tim-walz","tag-minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey","tag-townhall","tag-united-states-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62548,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62547\/revisions\/62548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}