I & I Editorial BoardFederal agents who are doing nothing more than carrying out our immigration laws are being verbally and physically assaulted in blue states, Minnesota and California in particular. Don’t try to convince us these are organic protests with only the purest of intentions.
It’s a generously funded insurgency inflamed by the Democrats, cynics who see a political opportunity to create havoc. The combatants are not in uniform, but they serve the same purpose as shock troops who are on the front lines of a revolution before the occupation forces move in.
Confrontations between ICE agents and protesters have been common for nearly a year. We’ll stipulate that some are simply demonstrating peacefully. But many are there to obstruct, and some of them have violence on their minds. We’ve seen the toxic brew result in at least one death — for now.
It’s foolish to think there won’t be more. There’s a lust for blood. Just this past weekend, a horde attacked a counterprotester in Minneapolis, reportedly whacking him in the head with a flagpole and chasing him as if he were prey. Videos show a man whose life is being threatened. He was bloodied because of his opinions.
Another man was harassed in Minneapolis by an anti-ICE crowd, apparently for having offended the rabble by wearing an American flag hoodie with the word “Freedom” on it. “Take it off and you won’t get hurt!,” his tormenters told him.
This is only a sampling of recent events over the course of a much longer reign of terror.
Yet it’s Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the city’s boy mayor and performative artist in chief who are demanding President Donald Trump “turn the temperature down” and pull ICE out of the city, even as the former has likened ICE officers to Nazis, “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” and claims to “be at war with the federal government every single day.”
Meanwhile, the latter, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, has told ICE, “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.” In his twisted mind, the federal agents are invaders, not the refuse-to-assimilate illegals who are rotting the culture in Minnesota and elsewhere.
As brazen as Walz and Frey have been, they are not working their side of the street alone. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has compared ICE to “secret police,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has invoked “the early days of Nazi Germany,” and many others have vilified the administration and ICE personnel.
Meanwhile, in states where local and state law enforcement authorities actually cooperate with federal agents who are arresting illegal aliens, many of them criminals even before they broke our law by coming here unlawfully, Minnesota-style out-for-blood mobs are not part of the landscape.
In Texas, for instance, over a 10-day period last fall, ICE officers were able to arrest 1,500 illegal aliens, “including sexual predators and fugitives,” says the Texas Public Policy Foundation. A Florida woman allegedly punched a state trooper “during a confrontation with federal agents,” reports the New York Post. That resulted in her arrest because it’s the kind of behavior, amply fed in Minnesota and California, that won’t be tolerated in that state. Florida, said Gov. Ron DeSantis, “is not Minneapolis.”
What we’re seeing in sanctuary states and cities is an organized effort from the left, with shameless politicians goading lunatics, antifa goons, wealthy white status-seekers, bored rich housewives, doddering Boomers, and the usual misfits who can’t build so they destroy, into a battle with federal authorities.
From this, we get the likes of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent while hitting him with her SUV. She was part of ICE Watch, a group, says the New York Post, that has “a detailed manual providing instructions on fighting police officers to free arrested radicals from their grasp, comparing each ‘de-arrest’ to a ‘micro-intifada.’”
The mission goes far beyond peaceful protesting — to “de-arrest” means agitators have to assault officers — and the phrase “micro-intifada” speaks for itself. Any group that would use it is not on the side of angels but aligned with the malevolent of the world.
The pressure to turn down the temperature should be squarely on the Democrats. But they have chosen to stoke the fever instead. Once the federal investigators who are looking into misconduct by Walz and Frey are done and the pair is properly punished, they need to quickly move on to the next batch of Democratic insurrectionists — and those who fund them.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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