What other public statements has Governor Walz made about ICE and immigration enforcement, and where are their transcripts or videos archived?
Executive summary
Governor Tim Walz has repeatedly and publicly condemned the federal ICE and Border Patrol surge in Minnesota, called for the removal or scaling back of federal agents, urged Minnesotans to document ICE activity, and defended local resistance; those statements are recorded across local and national news outlets, video reports and at least one formal transcript of congressional testimony [1] [2] [3] [4]. Primary archival locations for those remarks include television and local news video pages (KARE11, Scripps, CBS, CNBC), written news reports that quote or summarize his remarks (AP, BBC, Minnesota Reformer), an online transcript service for formal testimony (Rev), and his social posts referenced by national outlets [5] [1] [6] [4].
1. Public statewide addresses condemning federal tactics and urging documentation
Walz delivered a statewide address characterizing the federal campaign as "organized brutality," urging Minnesotans to film ICE actions to build evidence and promising "accountability," remarks reported with video excerpts and quotes by Scripps News and Minnesota Reformer [1] [3]. Those news outlets host video clips and full reports of his remarks; Minnesota Reformer also published a written summary of his six‑minute statewide address [3], while Scripps ran a story quoting large portions of the address and noting a public video was posted [1].
2. Press conferences calling for federal agents to withdraw after fatal shootings
Following the killing of civilians in Minneapolis during immigration operations, Walz publicly called on President Trump to end sweeping ICE operations in the state and demanded removal of federal agents, language documented by CNBC and CBS reporting on his press remarks and social posts [2] [7]. CNBC and CBS provided contemporaneous coverage that includes quotes and links to Walz’s X post and to the press events; their articles and embedded video clips serve as archival records for those statements [2] [7].
3. Direct responses to federal officials and legal confrontations
Walz responded publicly to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter and the subsequent Justice Department subpoenas by calling the federal inquiries partisan distractions and saying Minnesota would "not be drawn into political theater," statements noted in CBS News and AP reporting on subpoenas and DOJ scrutiny [6] [8]. These news stories archive both quotes and the timeline of legal exchanges, and the New York Times has published Bondi’s letter itself, which contextualizes Walz’s replies [9].
4. Congressional testimony and formal transcripted remarks
Walz has also appeared in formal settings where verbatim records exist: a transcript of his testimony before a congressional hearing is available via Rev, which transcribed portions of exchanges that include his defended positions and remarks about state policy and ICE [4]. The Rev transcript is an explicit archival source for Walz’s more formal, on‑the‑record comments to federal lawmakers [4].
5. Social media and short public posts as part of the record
Walz used X (formerly Twitter) to call for action and to challenge federal narratives after shootings, and national outlets quoted and linked to those posts in their coverage—CNBC explicitly notes an X post calling for the administration to pull agents and linked coverage preserved by the outlet [2]. When media quote or embed social posts they become part of the public record archived in those articles and often in automated news caches [2].
6. Where to find transcripts and videos — what is documented and what is not
Concrete, citable records of Walz’s remarks appear in: local TV and news websites that published video and article transcripts or quotes (KARE11, Scripps, Minnesota Reformer, CBS Minnesota) which serve as practical archives for speeches and press events [5] [1] [3] [7]; national outlets (AP, CNBC, BBC) that quoted or summarized his statements and preserved the context of legal and political responses [8] [2] [10]; and a formal Rev transcript of congressional testimony for verbatim record [4]. There is limited direct evidence in the provided reporting about an official governor’s office archive link or a single centralized video repository; in lieu of that, the cited news organizations and the Rev transcript are the documented sources for his public statements in the reporting reviewed [1] [3] [4] [6].