So Democrats in Minnesota have cooked up a brilliant new strategy for fighting immigration enforcement: arrest the ICE agents. That’s right — Ramsey County Attorney John Choi looked into the camera this week and announced he’s investigating “criminal actions by federal immigration agents” because they accidentally picked up the wrong guy during a raid in January. His big legal theory? “Felonious kidnaping, illegal detainment, and false imprisonment.”
There’s just one tiny problem. CNN’s own legal analyst went on live television and said the whole thing is a steaming pile of legal garbage. Whoops!
Elie Honig — who, for the record, is not exactly a card-carrying member of the MAGA fan club — appeared on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and delivered a verdict so brutal it should’ve come with a parental advisory. “I think the chances of a successful prosecution are near zero here,” Honig said. Zero. Not “slim.” Not “it could be tough.” Zero.
And then he explained why, in terms so simple even a Ramsey County Attorney could understand them: “This was a mistake. The ICE agents intended to arrest one person. They arrested the wrong person. That’s bad. And there should be consequences. But it’s not a crime. There’s no such thing as accidental kidnaping.”
No such thing as accidental kidnaping. Somebody embroider that on a throw pillow and send it to John Choi’s office.
But Honig wasn’t done twisting the knife. He pointed out that “there’s essentially no precedent for state-level prosecutors to indict federal law enforcement agents for something they did in the course of their federal job.” In other words, a county attorney in Minnesota doesn’t get to arrest federal agents for doing federal work just because he doesn’t like the federal work they’re doing. That’s not how any of this works.
The proper remedy, Honig explained, is a civil lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act. You know — the boring, legitimate legal channel that doesn’t generate press conferences or get you booked on MSNBC. But John Choi doesn’t want a civil lawsuit. John Choi wants a headline. John Choi wants to be the Democrat who “stood up to Trump’s ICE goons” so he can put it on a campaign mailer.
DHS saw right through it too. Their official response? “This is nothing but a political stunt to demonize ICE law enforcement.” And for once, the government spokesperson nailed it in one sentence.
Think about what we’re watching here. Democrats have gotten so desperate to protect people who are in this country illegally that they’re now trying to throw federal law enforcement officers in prison for making an honest mistake on the job. Not for brutality. Not for corruption. For grabbing the wrong guy — which they corrected.
This is the same party that tells us they’re “pro-law enforcement” every time a Republican brings up defunding the police. Sure you are, fellas. You love cops so much you want to prosecute them for doing their jobs.
And the beautiful part? Even CNN wouldn’t back them up. When you’ve lost CNN’s legal analyst — a guy who spent years as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, not exactly a conservative breeding ground — your legal theory isn’t just weak. It’s dead on arrival.
Poor Wolf Blitzer just sat there while his own network’s expert dismantled the entire premise of the segment he was hosting. You could almost see the producer in his earpiece saying, “Uh… should we cut to commercial?”
We should all send Elie Honig a fruit basket. Not because he’s suddenly on our side — he’s not — but because he did something almost unheard of on cable news in 2026: he told the truth about a Democrat scheme even though it made his own network’s narrative look stupid. That used to be called journalism. Now it’s called an accident.
Meanwhile, John Choi is sitting in his office in Ramsey County with a “prosecution” that has zero chance of succeeding, zero legal precedent, and now zero credibility — because CNN just did his autopsy on live television. Maybe he can file a civil suit against Elie Honig for hurting his feelings. That one might actually have a better shot.
