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Posted on 01/18/2026 7:09:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
ICE isn’t creating chaos; politicians and activists are—by turning routine detentions into viral outrage, provoking mobs, escalating encounters, and manufacturing danger for political gain.
Over and over again, we’re told to be outraged.
An individual is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is later released. And before the facts can catch their breath, Democratic politicians and activist megaphones are already screaming ‘abduction’, ‘fascism’, and ‘state violence’. Cue the mob. Cue the cameras. Cue the chaos.
It plays out over and over again.
Remember the viral video of a woman screaming ‘I’m a U.S. citizen’ as ICE agents pulled her from a car in the Florida Keys? The media and politicians pounced – ICE ‘arrested an American citizen’. Turns out this person was detained by ICE because she refused to identify herself and was driving her boyfriend’s vehicle. Afterwards, reports disclosed that the boyfriend was in the country illegally. She chose not to comply. Perhaps she wanted the situation to escalate? Much of the debate about ICE has become political theater.
Let’s slow this down and apply something increasingly rare in modern politics: the facts.
ICE detains individuals pursuant to its lawful authority. That happens every day. Sometimes people are held. Sometimes they’re released. Detention and release are not evidence of wrongdoing by law enforcement—they are the process. But in today’s political climate, process doesn’t matter. Optics do. Rage does. And outrage is politicized and monetized.
What does make these encounters dangerous is not ICE. It’s the reckless rhetoric that surrounds them.
When Democratic elected officials tell people that law enforcement officers are ‘kidnappers’ or ‘stormtroopers’, when they suggest citizens have a moral duty to interfere with federal agents, they are not encouraging peaceful protest—they are inciting confrontation. And when mobs take that cue and physically obstruct officers doing their jobs, the risk to everyone involved skyrockets.
This is not complicated.
What happens? Lawful orders are given. They’re ignored. Resistance follows. A crowd interferes. Officers are forced to manage a volatile situation that never needed to exist in the first place.
If individuals simply comply with lawful commands—no dramatics, no resistance, no posturing—these could be routine encounters. No drama; no chaos, no violence. If the mob allows officers to do their work instead of inserting themselves into a federal enforcement action, there would be no spectacle, no video clips, no political fundraising emails.
But compliance doesn’t trend on social media.
What we’re witnessing is a dangerous feedback loop. Politicians inflame tensions with extreme language. Activists show up looking for confrontation. Law enforcement is placed in an impossible position. Then, when things escalate—as they predictably do—the very people who lit the fuse rush to the microphones to condemn the explosion.
That’s not leadership. That’s negligence.
No one is above the law, but justice isn’t served when the law is deliberately obstructed either. ICE officers are not free agents; they operate under rules, supervision, and due process constraints. Pretending otherwise may be politically useful, but it is factually false—and dangerously so.
If Democrats truly cared about safety, about de-escalation, about justice, they would stop encouraging resistance and obstruction. They would tell their supporters the truth: you don’t get to decide, in the moment, which laws you’ll obey and which officers you’ll recognize as legitimate.
These incidents don’t have to happen. They are not inevitable. They are manufactured—by irresponsible rhetoric, by mob interference, and by a political class more interested in chaos than consequences.
And the next time it happens—and it will—remember who made it dangerous.
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ICE works to protect the American people.
Democrat politicians work to protect criminals, illegals, perverts, cartels and gang members.
Which side are YOU on? Which side are you on?
From my proposal a few months back:
All persons and entities who engage in any type of physical real property activity must use the ICE Bank System to take payment:
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3. after February 28, 2026, for such activity in Dallas County, Texas, Tarrant County, Texas and Harris County, Texas and adjacent counties,
4. after March 31, 2026, for such activity in Fulton County, Georgia and adjacent counties,
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7. after June 30, 2026, for such activity in all other political subdivisions in which the ICE Bank System has set up a branch at least two whole months previously
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Such physical real property activity shall be deemed to include building facility cleaning under contract and all building construction, building repair, building painting, septic system work, building site preparation, irrigation work, paving, landscaping, landscape maintenance, fencing and mowing
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Bkmk
“Law and Order” is now being redefined as “Chaos”.
Don’t forget, this is to save their power that they see slipping away. If all those illegal’s bodies get shipped out, they lose house seats due to reduced census counts. They have fewer ‘voter units’ they can add to the ballot pile during elections. Makes it much harder to cheat, and if they can’t cheat and lie, they lose elections. They lose elections, they lose the power needed to siphon taxpayer dollars off to themseleves so they can get rich.
well yes demonstrations are political theatre. any deaths are a bonus.
The president should say that the ambition of the protestors is to turn the USA into a sh-t hole country. Therefor they will be sprayed with noxious chemical that smell like rotten eggs or sh-t
Where were the protesters during the Obama administration?
I hate these people.
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