Posted on 03/19/2026 2:13:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats have kept the Department of Homeland Security shuttered since mid-February because they were outraged that two Americans were killed by ICE agents while interfering with their work.
Since then, terrorists have claimed four American lives – a number that could have been significantly higher had fortune not prevailed.
So, where are the protests over these deaths?
“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city,” is how Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer justified his party’s decision to force the DHS closure. Democrats are insisting on a raft of ICE “reforms,” but their goal is simply to hamstring legitimate deportation efforts.
The shutdown made no sense, since ICE was funded in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It’s the rest of DHS that’s been shuttered since Feb. 14 – the parts that manage things such as airport security, the Coast Guard, cybersecurity, and antiterrorism activities.
And what’s happened in those four weeks? There have been four terrorist attacks. If you haven’t heard much about these attacks, that’s because the mainstream press has been busy downplaying them when not trying to pin the blame on President Donald Trump.
On March 1, there was a mass shooting outside a bar in Austin, Texas, that killed three and injured more than half a dozen. It’s being investigated as an act of terrorism – the shooter’s clothing was emblazoned with “Property of Allah” and an Iranian flag.
On March 7, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi allegedly tried to detonate two bombs targeting protesters outside Gracie Mansion, the New York City mayor’s residence. “These men allegedly sought to inflict mass casualties in service to ISIS with the hope of exceeding the carnage of the Boston Marathon bombing,” said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. (Media outlets initially blamed the protesters themselves for the bombs.)
On March 12, a shooter opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., killing one and injuring two. The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism. The assailant was yelling “Allahu Akbar” while firing at students.
That same day, an armed driver rammed his pickup truck into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., setting the building on fire. There were 140 children attending preschool at the time. No one was injured. The diver’s brother was a Hezbollah commander. So, yeah, terrorism.
And the threat is growing in the wake of the U.S. attacks on Iran, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, head of American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab, told CNN.
That there were only four deaths as a result of these four attacks is something of a miracle. Had those bombs gone off or the driver been more successful, there could have been dozens more casualties.
And the difference between the ICE-involved deaths and these is profound. The two killed in Minnesota had put themselves in danger by actively interfering with federal law enforcement officials who were trying to deport illegal aliens.
The four killed this month by Islamic terrorists were simply living their lives.
Is the DHS shutdown to blame for these attacks? Maybe not directly. But as Stacey Matthews notes on Legal Insurrection, “These dangerous political games are having the net effect of emboldening Islam/ISIS-inspired terrorists to hurt and kill people in the United States. The longer the Democrats’ Resistance antics keep up, the stronger the likelihood that we’re going to see more attacks.”
Democrats don’t seem to care that innocent American lives are at stake. As Hawaii’s Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz put it, Democrats “are very serene with what is going on.”
democRATs: Everything is going as planned. He, he, and it is all Trump’s fault.
Just an end to the means. Nothing to see here.
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