You might have thought it wasn’t possible, but leftist activist rhetoric has become even more unhinged than usual in the past month as ICE agents try to do their lawful jobs in Democrat controlled sanctuary cities like Minneapolis.
During the Obama Administration, ICE carried out millions of deportations of illegal aliens without a peep from progressives. Suddenly, under Trump these same operations are now being called “fascism” and grounds for insurgency. The reason these arrests have led to more violence today is not because of ICE, it is because NGO paid and trained activists are getting in the way.
First, impeding law enforcement officials, blocking roads, sabotaging vehicles and physically assaulting agents is not a legal form of protest.
Second, the American public voted for mass deportations to happen; not just for migrants who break the law after they sneak into the US, but for all migrants who sneak into the US. Democrats and a radical minority of activists are therefore attempting to disrupt the democratic process and prevent the Trump Administration from carrying out the will of the people.
But it doesn’t stop there.
A narrative is building among Democrat politicians and NGO activists alike which is essentially calling for a political purge of conservatives if progressive leaders return to government power in the next few years. Multiple blue city mayors, governors and police administrators have already threatened to “arrest ICE agents” for carrying out deportations within sanctuary city jurisdictions.
Jacob Frey and Tim Walz made thinly veiled threats suggesting that local police could intervene. Walz called on residents of Minneapolis to film all ICE agents so that they could be “prosecuted later.”
Hellbound and Down 