Tim Walz Just Slapped ICE in Face with Appointment of Chauvin Trial Judge for Anti-ICE Truth Council

ICE just finished pulling convicted pedophiles, rapists, and murderers off Minnesota's streets.

Now Tim Walz is building a council to put ICE on trial instead.

He just handed the pen to the judge who presided over the Derek Chauvin trial.

Walz Builds His Minnesota Truth Council Around Operation Metro Surge

Former Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill will chair Walz's "Governor's Council on Recording the Truth of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS."

That's the actual name of the thing.

Walz set it up in March and stacked it with exactly the kind of people you'd expect.

The ACLU of Minnesota gets a seat at the table.

So does an organization called The Advocates for Human Rights.

On the Minnesota Secretary of State's website, the council goes by a cleaner name: the "Minnesota Truth Council."

Cahill isn't some neutral fact-finder parachuting in from nowhere.

He's the judge who blocked certain Minneapolis Police Department training documents from being shown to the Chauvin jury – a decision that drew withering criticism from conservatives and was highlighted in Alpha News's documentary The Fall of Minneapolis.

Walz's office described Cahill as "widely recognized for his commitment to the fair administration of justice, judicial transparency, and public service."

That's the sales pitch for a man Walz just handed the pen to write the official historical record of Trump's immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

What ICE Arrests in Minnesota Actually Looked Like

Let's establish what this "Truth Council" is being set up to condemn.

Operation Metro Surge launched December 1, 2025.

DHS deployed federal agents to the Twin Cities to arrest criminal illegal aliens who had been walking free while Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey ran the state as a sanctuary for violent offenders.

The results were not subtle.

ICE pulled convicted sex offenders off the streets – men like Blong Xiong, a Laotian national convicted of sodomizing a 12-year-old girl, who had been free in Minnesota.

ICE arrested Tze Thao, convicted of homicide, who had been issued a removal order back in 2015 and never removed.

ICE arrested gangbangers, domestic abusers, child predators, and murderers – over 3,000 in the first six weeks alone.

"Tim Walz and Jacob Frey failed to protect the people of Minnesota," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "They let these monsters and child predators roam free. Thanks to our brave law enforcement, Minnesota is safer with these thugs off their streets."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added that since President Trump took office, Walz had released "nearly 500 criminal illegal aliens back onto Minnesota's streets" rather than transferring them to federal custody.

Walz Already Tried to Sabotage the Operation While It Was Running

The Truth Council isn't Walz's first move against Trump's enforcement effort – it's his latest.

While Operation Metro Surge was ongoing, Walz encouraged Minnesota residents to record federal immigration agents and promised to build a "database of the atrocities" for future prosecution.

DHS fired back, accusing Walz and Frey of "actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers."

Left-wing activists physically obstructed immigration officers throughout the operation.

Meanwhile, Walz refused to honor federal detainers – refusing to hold criminal illegal aliens for ICE pickup – even as DHS documented more than 1,300 active detainers for criminals sitting in Minnesota jails.

The man who spent months working to undermine the operation that removed pedophiles and murderers from his state's streets is now in charge of writing what happened.

This Is Not a Truth Commission

Tim Walz spent months releasing criminal illegal aliens from Minnesota jails instead of handing them to ICE.

Now he's building the archive that will tell your grandchildren ICE was the problem.

The Minnesota Truth Council has until December 1, 2026, to deliver its report.

Walz won't be governor much longer – he announced he isn't seeking a third term – but this document will outlast his tenure.

That's the point.

The criminals ICE removed from Minnesota won't be on the streets for the holidays.

But the official state record will say the agents who took them off were the real threat.

Sources:

• Anthony Gockowski, "Walz names judge from Chauvin trial as chair of council to record 'the truth' about ICE operations," Alpha News, June 2, 2026.
• "ICE Arrests the Worst of the Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens Including Pedophiles, Rapists, and Violent Thugs in Tim Walz's Sanctuary Minnesota," Department of Homeland Security, December 12, 2025.
• "ICE Continues to Remove the Worst of the Worst from Minneapolis Streets as DHS Law Enforcement Marks 3,000 Arrests During Operation Metro Surge," Department of Homeland Security, January 19, 2026.
• Stephen Sorace, "White House accuses Walz of undermining law enforcement, blocking ICE cooperation," Fox News, January 25, 2026.
• Emma Colton, "Thousands of violent illegal immigrants arrested in Minnesota as admin vows 'we will not back down,'" Fox News, February 4, 2026.