Jan. 26, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for speaking and reportedly having a “productive” call:
“It is very good for America that President Trump and Governor Walz talk this out, and now they finally have — and not a moment too soon. It is imperative that the federal government and states work together on matters that the federal government has purview, including immigration enforcement. No more sanctuary states. Crowds of people should not be anywhere near enforcement operations, but they are. It’s not safe for the officers or the people trying to get in the way. There should be perimeters so the only people federal agents are interacting with are the targets of the investigations. Unfortunately, the ICE Watch groups are too well organized and are spotting federal agents’ vehicles to disrupt regular enforcement operations in real-time, which the Justice Department should disrupt and arrest the ringleaders of.
“If state and local police cannot or will not provide coordination — can’t DHS just arrest the illegal aliens at the courthouse and jails? — and are unable to get these groups out of federal officers’ ways, then there is a much bigger problem. The National Guard is probably better at crowd control than DHS, and both the Governor and the President have the power to put them out there and restore order if necessary. Hopefully, the discussion underway is at a beginning and not an end and results in the normalization of federal immigration enforcement operations there and the end of Minnesota being a sanctuary state. The current escalation would be almost entirely preventable if Minnesota and Minneapolis would just cooperate with federal enforcement efforts underway.”
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