{"id":18209,"date":"2026-01-26T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-to-americans-after-latest-minnesota-shooting-what-side-do-you-want-to-be-on\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:22:15","slug":"walz-to-americans-after-latest-minnesota-shooting-what-side-do-you-want-to-be-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-to-americans-after-latest-minnesota-shooting-what-side-do-you-want-to-be-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz to Americans after latest Minnesota shooting: \u2018What side do you want to be on?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) asked Americans to reevaluate their views on the federal immigration crackdown, framing the issue as a moral issue, not a political one.  &ldquo;To Americans who are watching this right now &mdash; and I don&#8217;t know, maybe you&#8217;re watching with curiosity, bewilderment&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5706026-walz-immigration-moral-debate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) asked Americans to reevaluate their views on the federal immigration crackdown, framing the issue as a moral issue, not a political one. &ldquo;To Americans who are watching this right now &mdash; and I don&#8217;t know, maybe you&#8217;re watching with curiosity, bewilderment&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}