Posted on 01/08/2026 7:11:11 PM PST by MtnClimber
Democrat politicians have put countless lives at risk becasue they can’t accept an administration that vigorously enforces U.S. immigration laws.
The tragedy that unfolded Wednesday as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minnesota who appeared to be driving at him should never have happened. Democrat politicians, looking to take every action to impede immigration enforcement absolutely created the conditions over the past year for what transpired.
The initial reaction to the incident by the most prominent Minnesota officials, Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats, was horrendous, of course.
Frey decided to make his news conference one long, profanity-laced tirade blaming the entire incident on ICE. I’d post a clip here, but I can’t because this is a family-friendly website.
“To ICE: Get the f— out of Minneapolis,” he said at one point.
His harangue was at best unbecoming of a mayor, at worst inflammatory.
Walz was somehow worse. He decided that this was his Confederate cosplay moment. He said, “We’ve never been at war with our federal government,” suggesting that maybe now was the time. He then said that the National Guard could be used against “rogue” federal agents.
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rightfully called the soon-to-be former Minnesota governor’s leadership a “joke.”
“The idea that he’s some sort of freedom fighter, he’s not,” Vance said. “He’s the guy who has enabled fraud and maybe, in fact, has participated in fraud.”
How Walz and Frey handled the ICE shooting isn’t surprising, it’s just part of a pattern for Democrats who’ve decided after four years of open borders policies under President Joe Biden they would do everything they could to stop enforcement of immigration law.
The conditions for such an incident to occur in have absolutely been fueled not just by professional leftwing agitators but Democrat politicians like Frey, Walz, and many others.
They have signaled to the country that it’s OK to impede federal authorities when they are carrying out the law, not just with “sanctuary” policies but through direct impediments.
Back in May, Rep. Lamonica McIver, D-N.J., not only tried to force her way into a New Jersey ICE facility with a mob and she was accused of assaulting a police officer.
McIver has been charged with assault, a case that is still ongoing after a judge refused to grant her legislative immunity.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander got into a physical confrontation with ICE officers. The Department of Homeland Security said that Lander assaulted their officers, but no charges were ultimately filed.
Democrats have essentially signaled that the actions of ICE agents carrying out the law are illegitimate and that it’s fine to impede their operations. And that’s the messaging that they are going with in Minnesota and elsewhere.
It’s no wonder that attacks on ICE agents have exploded over the last year. The Department of Homeland Security released some of the shocking numbers.
“We are seeing a coordinated campaign of violence against our law enforcement particularly in Minneapolis,” DHS posted on X. “Dangerous criminals–whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens–are turning their vehicles into weapons to attack ICE. The brave men and women of DHS law enforcement will not be deterred and will continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”
I agree with conservative commentator Scott Jennings, Democrats have put both federal agents and the public at risk with their constant comparisons of ICE to the Gestapo and jumping to call them “murderers.”
The problem is not the crimes that have been committed by people illegally crossing the border, it’s that the Trump administration is enforcing the laws on the books, Democrats reason. So, when tragedies like what took place in Minnesota on Wednesday take place, they’ve placed all the blame on Trump and the federal government.
Keep in mind, Democrats could make the case to change immigration laws but knowing that most of the country will be against that, they’ve turned to making enforcement as big of a mess as they can.
And when you combine that with the generally lax treatment of protesters who’ve broken the law and have gotten out of line, you can see the seeds of what happened on Wednesday. It was only a matter of time before an anti-ICE activist threatened an officer and ended up in a deadly situation.
So here we are. A mother is dead, Minneapolis is in chaos, and the country is on edge, all because Democrats needed their narrative.
And it is still many months until the election that the left is trying to influence with their dangerous games.
Don’t write a check with your mouth that your ... can’t cash. Or, how does that go?
Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000 in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
How did this work out last time?
These Democrats are trying their best to weaponize street thugs and illegal aliens as their combatants against the Federal government. ie the United States.
The military is the only way. Trump needs to invoke the insurrection act.
Yes, and his timing may not suit either of us but I don’t have any doubt that he will do it when he thinks the time is right. :)
Absolutely. Trump is giving these leftard nut jobs enough rope to hang themselves.
We are on the same page!
Everything is a negotiation to Trump and he has mastered the art. :D
Pronto.
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