It has been said over and over again the past few months: Progressive activist groups sabotaging ICE operations are far too organized to be grassroots and always seem to know exactly where immigration authorities are going to show up and make arrests. Someone is creating these mobs from thin air, training them, funding them and letting them off their leash to attack when the opportunity is presented.
The establishment media consistently runs interference for these networks, insisting the protests are grassroots and completely spontaneous.
One such case of propaganda is the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNOW (formerly MSNBC) and their coverage of training camps organized in Charlotte, North Carolina as federal immigration officers arrive on the ground to arrest illegal migrants.
As we have seen across the country, anti-ICE mobs have followed a near identical playbook of disruption, provocation, sabotage, stalking of agents, blocking roads and creating general chaos in order to impede the arrests. In some cases, direct violence is used when activists think they can get away with it. These tactics have been employed extensively in Chicago in the past month.
Disruption groups threaten the safety of ICE agents, creating the necessity for the deployment of the National Guard, which Democrats then call “authoritarianism”.