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Are Democrats Being Disingenuous on Immigration?, What’s Next for Tim Walz and Jacob Frey & Marty Seifert on Minnesota’s Move to the Far Left
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Foreign. Here. Welcome to the no spin news. Thursday, January 29, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, not a lot new out of Minnesota, which I think is a good thing, but things are evolving there. We have all of it for you. We're way ahead on this story as you and President Trump ran some of our analysis this morning. Tell you about that. I expect something soon to happen in Iran, okay. I don't know why. I don't they shut it down. I don't have very good sources on the ground, but it's moving in that direction. It'll be military stuff, so I expect that to happen soon. When it does, we'll be all over it. Just gonna billorilly.com and I don't think the Democrats are going to shut down the government, although the Senate today didn't pass the big spending bill. But I could be wrong on that. Democrats might want to go down with the ship, but it's foolish. What they're doing is awful. Look, we can work this out. You don't have to stop the government, you know, inflict pain on the whole nation. So let's go to the Talking Points Memo and advance the Minnesota chaos story. And the way to do that is to understand what's happening in the big political picture. So when Barack Obama was president, two terms, as you know, all right, and the Last one was 2012-16 or when 2013-17, all right, he lost in 16. The Democrats lost to Trump. Now, in the second term, there were some very interesting statistics about illegal immigration. So in one term, Barack Obama deported more than 2 million foreign nationals. Two million. Now compare that to Biden's four years in office, 545,000. Look at that. In Trump's first term, he deported 935,000. So Obama leads the league by far in deportations, yet you didn't hear his own party crucify him at all. You didn't hear the American media go after Barack Obama, did you? No, they didn't do it. That just shows you how hollow this whole thing is. Now, just give you another stat that you find interesting. Asylum applications filed under Barack Obama's last term, four years, 239,000. And the Obama administration only granted 35,000 asylum. Look at that. And then the moment that another Democrat, Biden came in, everybody got asylum. Everybody came across. And the party applauded that. But the party didn't, as I said, criticize Obama. All right, so Barack Obama, if you read Confronting the Presidents, I gave him pretty good marks. I don't like the way Obamacare was put together. But he worked hard and I thought he had a pretty good visions of what was right and what was wrong. And he was very clear about illegal immigration. Roll of tape.
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There are those in the immigrants rights community who have argued passionately that we should simply provide those who are illegally with legal status or at least ignore the laws on the books and put an end to deportation until we have better laws. Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons, the 11 million who broke these laws should be held accountable.
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And now every single Democrat elected to the House and Senate disagrees with Barack Obama. That's a stunning piece of history, a total reversal of a party philosophy. And Mr. Obama is still very popular among Democrats. And I'll tell you why this is happening in a moment. So there was a little bit of dissent, to be fair. Some House Democrats sent letters. They didn't like the detention and breakup of the families. Nobody likes that. On and on. But it was very muted. And the press just totally, you didn't see every night, oh, poor immigrants. None of that happened. None of it. Okay, now why the change? Why the change in the party? This is a key question. Republicans have remained consistent. No amnesty, close the border, enforce the law. But the democrats have changed 180 degrees. So there's a group that Sinclair Broadcasting, they have a show every week, the National News Desk, and they tackled this question just recently, maybe a week ago. Roll tape.
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So a former DHS senior advisor tells us he believes this Democratic shift started with the Biden administration and is now intensifying during Trump's second term. Noting how previous Democratic administrations handled illegal immigration and the changes from 2021 to 2025.
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The first administration in history to completely abandon their federal responsibilities to secure the border and enforce the immigration laws of this country.
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Pointing to the number expert and former DHS senior adviser Charles Marino telling the National News Desk he believes this Democratic reversal in part started five years ago.
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We have seen now an abandonment by the party at large where they do not want to see these laws enforced five years ago.
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Hmm. Why did they do it? Oh, I think it's hate Trump. That's what it is. The Democratic Party understood that Donald Trump, one of his main reasons for running was to get the immigration situation under control. And it worked for him. He won the election, I think, because of it. So they opposed everything he did. That's what it's not about the foreign nationals, the poor migrants. Not about that. It's about Trump. If he supports something, we're against it. And that's why this debacle blew up. That's why it did. Because anybody could see under Biden, the disaster. Fifteen million people, maybe a million and a half, hardened, violent criminals, Americans getting brutalized. You've heard all the cases, okay, Every. Anybody could see it. And it's wrong. And that's what we're dealing with today. So the reason that the Democratic Party and to this very moment will not cooperate on immigration law at all is because they hate Trump. And that's the memo. All right, now, on Tuesday of this week, we mentioned that Governor Walz of Minnesota and Mayor Fry of Minneapolis were subpoenaed by the federal government. Okay? And there are five and a half million people in Minneapolis in Minnesota, very small state. And it's very unusual to have the governor and the mayor of the top city under subpoena by the federal government, the Justice Department. And the subpoena is they have to appear before a grand jury, a criminal grand jury. Now, we've been reporting, nobody else reporting it. So Fry and Walls have the subpoenas. The FBI delivered them, okay, nine days ago. Did you hear about it on ABC News? Now, Walls won't say anything, button down, not saying a word. But Fry has to appear on Monday at 9pm in U.S. district Court to answer the subpoena. Now, I don't know what's going to happen. It's very hard to get information about all this, but this is a serious thing. These guys may be charged with federal crimes because they are in rebellion against the US Government. There's no doubt they are. They admit it. Okay, That's a enormous story. So we understand the federal prosecutors are putting together data that Fry and Walsh obstructed and impeded law enforcement, and that is illegal federal law enforcement instructed and impeded. That is what they're going for and that we come under a conspiracy statute. So let me do a few legalisms here. I'll get through them fast. But you need to know these. So the first thing is a rebellion insurrection act, all right? This is 18 US code 2383. Quote, whoever incites its foot assists or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States for laws thereof, notice, laws thereof.
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2025 or gives a to comfort there too shall be fined under this title or in prison not more than 10 years or both shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. Certainly Fry and Walls did that. No doubt about it. Second one, Sedition. If two or more persons in any state or territory or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States conspire, overthrow, put down or destroy by force the government of the United States or to levy war against them or to oppose by force the authority thereof or by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of any law of the United States or take any property contrary to the authority, they shall each be fined as title in prison, not more than 20 years. Conspiracy. Very, very hard here, but it could absolutely. When the law thing comes in, they could charge. The final thing is conspiracy. I'm sorry. Sedition would be hard. I don't expect sedition, the middle one that I just read. I don't expect that to be in play. But here's the one that I think is going to happen. Conspiracy. Quote. If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense against the United States to defraud the United States or any agency thereof in any manner for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to affect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or in prison not more than five years of vote. So obviously, the Fry and Walls are conspiring not to obey federal immigration law passed in 1952. It's not a hard case. I can make the case. I'm not even a lawyer now. Will it happen? I don't know. It's up to the Justice Department to do it. Of course it would. All hell would break loose. Now, I presented all this last night on News Nation to Chris Cuomo. Roll tape. You said they're being subpoenaed. They're being subpoenaed because MAGA's going after its political opponents. The money coming in is a problem. That's not about the subpoenas. The federal government going after. The federal government is issuing the subpoenas, not maga. What's the matter with you, which you are so lost in your theoretical world. Now Cuomo thinks it's Magus. You know, and this is just a matter of Cuomo's a lawyer and he's a smart guy. He knows I'm saying it's right. He's got. But he's got no argument. He's got to politicize the argument. What's MAGA doing? What maga? Where? Where's maga? What did they write the subpoenas? Ridiculous. All right. Now, Minnesota used to be a fairly close state. Again, five and a half million residents, very small. I remember covering the Al Franken, the despicable human being that he is running for Senate against a guy named Republican named Norm Coleman. It was close, really close. And we spent a lot of time on the O'Reilly Factor because we despised Franken and understand what kind of a destructive person he is. So we spent a lot of time on this. And Franken ultimately prevailed and had to resign later on. But what happened to a state that was closed and now his state is crazy left? Joining us now from Marshall, Minnesota, is a former House minority leader for Minnesota, Marty Seifert. So, Marty, very simple question. What happened, man? What are we looking at here?
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Well, Bill, I think one thing that people don't understand about Minnesota is this close. The Minnesota House of Representatives has 134 people. There's 67 Democrats and 67 Republicans. The Senate has 67 members. They have 34 Democrats and 33 Republicans. It couldn't be any closer. We have eight members of Congress, four are Democrats, four are Republicans. With Tim Walls as her running mate. Kamala Harris got a little over 51%. So if you look at the real statistics in Minnesota, we are a tied state with a tiny bit of lean to the Democrats. But because 59% of our population lives in the seven county metro, it does tilt our statewide races more towards the liberal side. And we hold no statewide office. We haven't won a statewide election since 2006. Twenty years ago, Tim Pawlenty got elected by a plurality. When I was in the legislature, I was elected in 96. We had a moderate Republican governor, Arne Carlson for eight years with Jesse Ventura, you might remember him.
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An independent for four years and then Tim Pawlenty, a moderate to conservative Republican for eight years. So I never served with a Democrat in Minnesota as the governor. I had two Republicans and an independent for the 14 years I was in the legislature. Now you said what's happened? Minnesota has, like a lot of states, it's become more polarized. We used to have a Lot of split tickets. I won my House seat the first year, the same year that Bill Clinton carried my seat and I had a Democrat congressman carry my seat. But people split their ticket for me as a Republican. So I have southwest Minnesota in my area. So if you look at Minnesota just from an analytical point of view, the loud have gotten a lot of attention. But I would say the silent majority, that the butcher, baker and candlestick maker that mind their own business, that work hard, raise their kids, they don't. They don't have time to go out and blow whistles and scream at people. But we do have a lot of concerns in Minnesota. We have a deep humanity here. The death of that young man in Minneapolis is disturbing to anyone who watched it. And I'm Republican, but I'm not dumb. And I know there's a fine line between those two sometimes. But at the end of the day, we do have to have some humanity, and this has to be toned down. I watched Tom Holman's press conference this morning.
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And I think Tom Holman is not leaving the state, he said, until I have this figured out. And his talks with Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison and our public safety commissioner were very, I think, very. What I want to say. Constructive.
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Yeah. And I'm going to get to the specifics. ICE is changing a lot of the things. But here's my analysis. And I've been in Minnesota many times and up in Rainy Lake, up north. And what you're saying is, right, that the rural part of Minnesota is traditional conservative and the big city dominance in Minneapolis, St. Paul is very liberal. But when you have a stranglehold on the messaging, which walls and, and fry and your crazy attorney general and the Minneapolis media, which is all left wing. All right. When you have that kind of a stranglehold, that is the impression that gets out. And you mentioned Mr. Peretti, the Minnesotan who was shot down and killed. Well, he was the victim of agitation by the far left, in my opinion. Would you disagree with that?
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Well, I. I look at it from this perspective, and I haven't studied that deeply. But at the end of the day, we have a young man whose dad was shot multiple times. Was he radicalized by people? I don't know. I think a lot of Minneapolis got caught up in feeling constitutional rights were being abused. And it's not all paid agitators. I have people that I know personally who went out because they felt that it was just getting over the top on how things were happening. Now, ICE operations, in my opinion, happened here. And in all other 49 states under Barack Obama, as you just outlined here a few minutes ago. And it was done professionally and quietly. And I think announcing the calvary is coming with uniforms and press conferences and all this. There's, there's better ways of executing the law.
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Everybody, everybody, everybody knows that the footprint of the federal government might have been lessened. But if you're going to tell me that a 37 year old guy who kicks the backlight out of an ICE truck eight days ago and breaks his rib in a process and then goes seeks out a confrontation with ICE agents while carrying a loaded gun, you're going to tell me that's rational Minnesota conduct? It is not, Marty.
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No, and I'm not rationalizing that, Bill.
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I'm just saying that just so you.
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Know, at the end of the day.
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No end of any days, okay. There's no end of any days. That man and the woman before him, Ms. Good. All right. Are the victims of this far, far left demonization of the federal government. That's what they're victims of. And anybody who disputes that doesn't want to know the truth.
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Yeah, I think your point, your point is well taken, Bill, that if you want to avoid conflict, you don't walk into conflict with a loaded gun. I think people all understand that. I think there's, this will all get litigated as time goes on, on motivations and timeframes and so forth. But anyone who watched the film is disturbed by it. Whether they're conservative or whether they're independent, whether they're question, whatever.
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We're not. Cal is here and we, we have called month ago for a lighter approach by the federal government. Marty, thanks very much. Good to see you. Stay well.
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Appreciate it.
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Okay. This morning about 6:00am Eastern time, President Trump put out a video, two minutes of me and Leland vittered on News Nation talking about the Chinese money coming into Minnesota to whip up the anti government displays there. And if you miss our reporting, just go to billoriley.com if you're of course concierge Premium member, you get full access to transcripts and everything else. But we have been way ahead on this story, Way ahead on it. So there's a domestic story where Minnesota has been taken over by radical leftists. There's no doubt about that. Okay. And now the international story where the Beijing government has seized upon this to come in with millions, tens of millions of dollars to hire professional agitators to go to Minneapolis. That is the truth. All right, so as I mentioned with Marty, new ICE guidelines okay, here it is. There is an email, so this is backed up by fact from a man named Marcos Charles. He's a top official in ICE enforcement, and he says that, number one, ICE officers are not to engage with agitators. They're not going to verbally. They do their job, but you're not going back and forth, okay. And that they need to tell all the protesters exactly what is going to happen before it happens. So if somebody is doing something where they're going to be arrested, that some. One of the ICE people there will have a megaphone and say, you are going to be arrested for this unless you cease. So there's going to be that kind of communication. Finally, the targeted enforcement of aliens is going to go back to criminals. Now, it never really deviated. Deviated out of the criminals. The. But I think that they're going to be more cautious. ICE is going to be more cautious about where they go and who they round up. So this is good. Okay. Elon Omar got sprayed in a speech by some deranged idiot who has a record of being drunk all the time. We now know that it was a harmless substance, apple cider vinegar. Okay? Now that man who did that should be. I give him six months. Absolutely. He's got a record. I give him six months. You can't have that. You just can't. Okay? And now, you know, Omar is blaming Trump and Trump is blaming Omar. I don't care about that. All right? But if any American citizen attacks an elected representative, that's serious business. Even if it is apple cinnamon, you know, cider. All right. It's an interesting story. Unreported. Okay? That's why we are here. That's why you like listening and watching me. In California, immigrations dropped 70%. Whoa. California was the magnet, particularly for Mexicans. And it's down 70% according to U.S. census Bureau. In the last year, 7-1-24, 7/1-25. And all of that is because of the Trump border situation. 70%. Okay, we are going to take a quick break. We'll be back with a final thought about Iran. Okay, let's wrap it up. As you know, I'll be off tomorrow and I'm feeling better, but I'm still dealing with stuff I don't want to deal with. But what else? No other choice. You got to deal with it. Right? So I'm glad I have the little time over the weekend. I'm not going to do much. And it is the coldest snap in 10 years here. It's gonna be zero degrees on Saturday in New York, when I was a kid, we love this weather because we could play pond hockey, ice hockey, but there's so much snow on the ice. You know, we. We had big. Our guys come out with shovels, and we'd shovel the stuff out just like they do in Canada. But we loved it. Colder the better because we're playing ice hockey all the time. But now, zero degrees Saturday can be a lot of people out, and I have to work in the sense that I'm writing the new book. We're going to announce everything about the new book next week. I believe it's next week we have an announcement, but I'm. I'm writing it. Not. We're about 70% done. And it's totally different than any of the other books. I will tell you about it next week. And then we got to keep an eye on Iran. Now, here's the situation as far as I know it. So there are three principles involved here. United States, Israel, and the Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia. Okay? Saudi Arabia hates Iran. It's a Muslim thing. Okay? You can figure it out if you want, but despise really wicked hatred. Israel, obviously, Iran wants to slaughter every Jew in the world, so I got to be really friendly to that. In the United States, we had to deal with so much terrorism since 2001, a lot of it absolutely sponsored by Iran. If you want to know about it. You read my book Killing the Killers, and we go through the Soleimani thing and Iran, everything. And that's the best source of information. So right now, the United States government, CIA, Mossad is the intel of Israel. And I don't know what the Saudi Arabian intel service is, but they have one. So they're conferring. All of them are conferring. And what they don't want is the United States to go in and blow the hell out of the mullahs, then have an uprising in the Muslim world. All right? That's the impediment. They understand. The Iranian people, and this goes to confronting evil, have had it with the MOs. They want them out. There's no popular support. There's a number, 36,000 that the revolutionary Guard killed in the last month. Now, nobody can confirm that, but I'll tell you, it's a lot of debt. It's just like the Shah did when they booted him, the same thing. But now the Persian people say, you know, we had enough of this, so we have to seize the moment. We the good people in the world. The EU just today declared Iran, a terror nation. Big you're not going to get any dissent. Okay. When the United States does what it does, I don't know what that will be. I don't know. But it has to be a kill shot to the mullahs, just like Maduro. So they either got to kill him or arrest them. The mullahs know it's coming. They have already made their deal to Putin. I hear the number is $100 million just to Putin himself to take them. So you remember Assad of Syria? He bolted out of there and went to Moscow. Well, he paid Putin big dollars. I don't know how much. And Putin's the richest man in the world. And again, we chronicle that in Confronting evil. So the Muellers have already got their deal made that they're out of there and they don't want to die. Trump is basically saying kind of give him a you got to be out by Wednesday or whatever day. I don't know what day. But this is coming. So at any time, if the Muellers say blank, you, Mr. President Trump, you know it's on, as they say. We're watching that. We have exceedingly good contacts in the federal government. As you know, we're so far ahead on this Minnesota story. There's nobody close to us in really putting together the whole mosaic there. Nobody. And that's really shocking. You got abc, NBC, cbs, millions of dollars. It's just me and my guys against them. We kick their butts. Just think about it. Anyway, I want you to have a good weekend. Try to get away from it for a while. Stay warm if you're in the northern climes. Going to be cold in Florida, too. Got my Florida friends whining. And you got to watch out for the lizards falling out of the palm trees now down there. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the no Spin News. We'll see you on Monday.