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JEFF CHILDERS TAKE THIS MORNING

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz didn’t get much sleep last night, since angry, frustrated Anti-ICE protestors screamed maledictions at him and played loud music outside his house all night long. They didn’t like the deal he made with Border Czar Tom Homan to “lower the temperature” after two civilians got themselves shot in Minneapolis.

Last week, terrific Border Czar Tom Homan made Minnesota an offer it couldn’t refuse: cooperate with ICE, or the 2,700 federal agents flooding the Twin Cities would become a permanent fixture. The deal was simple. Under so-called “Basic Ordering Agreements,” Minnesota county jails would honor ICE detainers without requiring a judicial warrant, hold criminal aliens up to 48 extra hours past their release date, and give ICE agents “reasonable access” to inmates for immigration interviews. In exchange, the feds agreed to pull 700 officers out immediately, pay jails up to $2,500 per inmate, and then everybody could pretend it wasn’t a total Walz capitulation.

Vice President Vance explained, “We’re not drawing down the immigration enforcement… the officers being sent home were mainly in Minneapolis to protect those carrying out arrests.” Seven hundred agents pulled. Two thousand remain. That’s still 2,000 more than before Operation Metro Surge started.

On Wednesday, Homan announced that an “unprecedented number of counties” had signed on, and the drawdowns began. Governor Walz grudgingly called it “a step in the right direction” while insisting he still wanted all the remaining 2,000 agents gone — a statement that satisfied precisely no one, least of all the anti-ICE protesters who showed up at his house last night screeching that he’d caved.

It’s priceless irony. According to protesters at his house, Walz “caved” to Trump, which is hilarious because Walz hasn’t caved to anything in years except possibly the Golden Corral. What actually happened is that Walz discovered —as all sane Democrats eventually do— that there’s no such thing as “woke enough.” You can let Minneapolis burn, hide your National Guard, and put tampons in boys’ bathrooms, but the moment you fail to personally assault an ICE agent, you’re basically Mussolini.

It’s the good old purity spiral.