Trump Should Talk To Angel Parents Before He Orders ICE Out

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is preaching the policy of appeasement these days. It’s like Neville Chamberlain is running the Murdoch family-owned publication.

In an editorial over the weekend, Journal editors urged President Trump to cave to the anarchists roiling Marxist Minneapolis and “pause ICE enforcement” in the Twin Cities. Doing so, the editors insist, would “ease tensions” while the president considers “a less provocative strategy.” 

Enforcing immigration laws is “provocative” to a faux-conservative publication that has long endorsed open-border policies. In the editorial published on Sunday, the day after a 37-year-old nurse/agitator was very much in the wrong place making some very bad decisions at a very bad time, the board concedes the problem with surrender. 

“Yes, many on the left would conclude that their civil disobedience has paid off,” the editors admit. 

This ceased being mere “civil disobedience” not long after ICE and Border Patrol first came to town last month. It’s open rebellion. Federal law enforcement’s departure would signal to the left — and to the world — that Trump can be kowtowed by a paramilitary mob, the street warriors of the Democrats’ extended campaign to depose a duly-elected president. 

Sounds like Trump is listening to the “Get the f – – – out of Minneapolis” crowd. 

‘Never Acceptable’

On Monday, president posted on Truth Social that he had “a very good telephone conversation” with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the same far-left politicians who have likened Trump to Hitler and federal immigration law enforcement agents to his Gestapo. Walz, caught up in a massive welfare fraud scandal that seems to have all but disappeared from corporate news coverage in the smoke of the Twin Cities upheaval, likened ICE to Nazis hunting down Jews in war-torn Europe. 

“Many of us grew up reading the story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that story about Minnesota,” the failed vice-presidential candidate shamefully said. 

The U.S. Holocaust Museum understandably took umbrage with such false equivalencies. 

“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the U.S. Holocaust Museum posted on X. “Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”

Trump pledged to send his Border Czar, Tom Homan, to clean up some Department of Homeland Security messes as he extends an olive branch to the cynical politicians who have chosen chaos over cooperation with the federal government. 

‘How Many More Katies?’

Trump appears to be heeding the call from the Wall Street Journal and other weak-kneed Republicans.  

But the president would be better served listening to the Angel Families who have lost loved ones to violent crimes committed by illegal aliens. 

Joe Abraham, whose 20-year-old daughter Katie Abraham was killed in a drunk-driving crash caused by an illegal immigrant, fired off a response to the Wall Street Journal’s call for capitulation. He wrote of the double-standard inherent in corporate media’s radicalized narrative. 

“Families like mine rarely see our loss treated with the same urgency or moral clarity. When a lack of enforcement due to sanctuary policies results in innocent Americans being killed or victimized, the suffering of those victims too often fades into the background of the policy debate,” wrote Abraham, a survivor from sanctuary state Illinois. 

“Now, individuals killed during enforcement actions are being elevated as ‘martyrs,’ stripped of context, and politically weaponized by the Democratic Party to attack President Trump, ICE, and DHS,” the grieving father added. “These portrayals are neither honest nor just. They obscure the real human cost of failed immigration policies and the families whose lives have been permanently shattered by preventable crimes.” 

Katie Abraham was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, near the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana, one year ago this month. Her killer, now serving a 30-year prison sentence, fled the scene and was eventually caught by Texas law enforcement officials. 

“How many more Katies must be victims before immigration enforcement is deemed necessary?” Joe Abraham asked the gilded Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. 

‘Tortured and Tormented’

Abraham’s question is critical as Trump acts to restore order in a disorderly city. If he sends federal immigration law officials packing, what message does that send to Angel Parents like Joe Abraham? Or the family of 47-year-old Melissa Powell and her 16-year-old son, Riordan, killed in a 2024 Colorado crash caused by Honduras illegal immigrant Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas ? Or those still weeping for Victoria Eileen Harwell, a Minnesota mother who was killed in August 2024 by an intoxicated Ecuadorian national in north Minneapolis, according to police. Hennepin County (Minn.) law enforcement officials refused to honor the detainer that ICE had issued for German Llangari Inga, releasing him twice — two days after the fatal crash and again in May 2025 — without notifying the federal agency, DHS reported. 

Abraham doubts the Wall Street Journal will print his letter to the editor. 

“We don’t qualify for that,” the Angel Parent told me Monday in an interview on the Vicki McKenna Show. “Meanwhile we are tortured and tormented for the rest of our lives.”

“I am in the grave with Katie,” he added.  

As Trump weighs what to do about immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, he should do less talking with aiders and abettors Walz and Frey and more listening to the families living with such senseless losses. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.