I'm No Fan of Trump, But I Don’t Shun His Supporters

Real Clear Politics ^ | October 08, 2025 | Melinda Henneberger

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“America, we are better than this.”

Couldn't agree more. We are a nation of laws, not men. After all, as the Dems keep telling us, "nobody is above the law."

[rktman]

Our daughters family has. Oh well.

[Ann Archy]

INVASION BY ALL DEMOCRAT VOTERS!

[skr]

If this young citizen was handled by ICE, it’s more than likely because he was harrassing or defying ICE. They have better things to do than just randomly “beat” people.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I want to know how many illegal alien criminals she is going to invite into HER HOME my guess is none. Its ironic when Obama was President he was called the Deporter in Chief, and NO ONE on the left complained, its only when Trump deports people its an issue for them, so I know its fake outrage

[CaptainK]

“A Dominican priest in Chicago”

I stopped right there.

[mikey_hates_everything]

“detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home”

Go ahead and shun, Melinda, piss off and take your fallacies with you. I voted for this and don’t GAS about your lame examples of forgiven crimes. And it’s not the illegal’s sidewalk, it’s ours.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Dominican priest in Chicago who said he’d spent the day helping a young U.S. citizen who’d been beaten by ICE agents after he was “detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home” posted some video of tear gas.

I'm very skeptical of this, to say the least. If anyone in ICE is acting out of line, absolutely they should be held to account and punished. But I think it's 100X more likely the "young U.S. citizens" was doing something worthy of his experience, like interfering with ICE actions and trying to help others break the law.

Again, though, we have a responsibility to not sink the the Left's level. ICE agents should hold themselves to the highest standards and expect punishment for indefensible acts. Cleaning up a mess of millions of illegal invaders will inevitably involve some missteps. We should be ready to apologize for them and always try to do better. If we do so we can fairly point out that the greater share of the blame lies with Leftists who created such a huge mess in the first place. But if we sink to their level we lose that argument. Don't make excuses.

[jacknhoo]

Melinda Henneberger writes for the Washington Post and the New York Times - ‘Nuff said.

A Cafeteria Catholic, just like Pelosi, Durbin, Biden, etc.

Oh, they’re so moral - not.

[NorthMountain]

a young U.S. citizen who’d been beaten by ICE agents after he was “detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home”

[T-Bird45]

“I stopped right there.”

That makes two of us. I don’t trust anyone associated with granting sanctuary to illegal invaders.

[ChessExpert]

I agree. The introductory sentence is not credible. It goes downhill from there.

Are we to praise the author as being open-minded because she does not shun Trump supporters? Then praise everyone on Free Republic who does not shun Obama supporters.

[usurper]

A Dominican priest in Chicago who said he’d spent the day helping a young U.S. citizen who’d been beaten by ICE agents after he was “detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home.

Sure why not. It’s not like ICE has any work to do. Why not wast the day catching and releasing US citizens.

[Jeff Chandler]

A Dominican priest in Chicago

There are two likely possibilities:

1.) The "young U.S. citizen" lied about his experience. (You see anarchists on YouTube assaulting ICE agents, and after the agents defend themselves you see those anarchists lying about it on Democrat media.)

2.) The priest made up the whole thing.

[Bikkuri]

"I stopped right there."

Same.

[Texas Eagle]

Did the young US citizen’s name rhyme with Jussie Smollett? Bubba Wallace?

[4 Libertys sake]

The author claims a civil respect towards Trump supporters and decries stmts such as Stephen Miller’s which point to her continued disrespect and disdain. YET, she mentiins NOTHING of Obama’s ‘bitter ckingers’ or Hillary’s ‘Deplorables’ and how Biden would live to ‘punch’ the Trump supporter...etcetcetc.
If you want to be an arbitrator or civility—> you have to call out hateful language on BOTH sides of the political spectrum.... geesh!!!

[central_va]

This screed lacks any merit at all.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Illegal or not, don’t cop a ‘tude toward Federal agents when they stop you to ask a question in an illegal infested area. You’ve seen these people’s behavior on YouTube and the news which is partly why Trump is “invading” Chicago according to Pritzker. I’ll bet that interaction with ICE didn’t just happen for nothing.