Don't Fall for It...
It's a TRAP
I’m Doing a 180 on the Insurrection Act
They may be professionals – they’re not worth the attention they’re drawing.
After considerable thought following a weekend column in which I noted that The Professional Protestors are back, I’m doing a 180 and going back to my original thought in a text message (above) that I sent to a friend before writing the column. In it I said LE (law enforcement, ie., ICE) should simply leave. The thinking was that they are the target of a highly organized and funded anti-ICE protest and that if the target goes away, the protestors go away.
ICE left, and the thugs simply turned their attention against local and state police who had moved in, proving their real goal is to tear apart America.
For the most part, my column stands. The worst of the thuggish demonstrators are professionals, highly organized and well-funded. But I am reversing my call for the President to invoke the Insurrection Act. After thinking about it all weekend, and listening to alternate opinions from others, my original text thought stands. It would make more sense for ICE to leave, regroup and start somewhere else (though not inside a ring of federal military.)
…the real objective is to remove criminal illegal aliens
– the worst of the worst –
from America’s streets.
The Insurrection Act is the trap Democrats want President Trump to fall into. That’s one of the reasons they have encouraged anti-ICE demonstrations and violence. While it’s easy to say let’s meet force with force here, the real objective is to remove criminal illegal aliens – the worst of the worst – from America’s streets.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE has arrested more than 10,000 criminal aliens in Minneapolis, including 3,000 in recent weeks. That’s an impressive number. If the anti-ICE protestors are slowing things down – and they are – then go to greener, friendlier pastures for a while. This will increase the efficiency of ICE operations and take more murderers, rapists, drug dealers, pedophiles, human traffickers and other low-lifes off the street. Which is what America voted for.
Going someplace a bit friendlier might also provide ICE agents a needed rest.
Regardless of whether the shooting of Alex Pretti over the weekend was righteous or not, it’s exactly what Democrats want – eyes off the ball of arresting violent illegal aliens, eyes off the $9 Billion in corruption, eyes off the Somali community, and increased sympathy for someone the Democrats lured to the demonstration with anti-ICE rhetoric, and who is now dead.
President Trump has time on his side.
So as much as many would like to see the Insurrection Act invoked, I think not doing so is the current best strategy.
Don’t fall for it – it’s a trap.
Agree for the most part but going to the neighborhoods will not work. The anti-ICEers are too well organized. They show up at gas stations where ICE agents are refueling, not arresting. They record ICE and suspected ICE license plates for a database. They can assemble a crowd anywhere in minutes. I'd say let the local constabulary, Jacob Frey and Tim Walz, worry about the demonstrators. ICE should divert their own agents to greener pastures. I'm in SE Wisconsin. Big article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today on whether ICE will come here. At the very bottom of the article it mentions the one key factor: have local authorities been cooperating with ICE? YES. Big article about nothing... but it's a lefty rag, now part of the USA Today mob, so not surprised. Thanks for your input!
I would not, yet, invoke the insurrection act, but ICE should not leave. That would embolden the Soros crowd everywhere. Wait out the protesters. They have a short shelf life being out in the cold. Don’t worry so much about arresting illegals at this time, control the protesters. Divert them, make arrests in other neighborhoods. Have FBI there to arrest anyone who assaults an officer of the law.
I just think leaving does not solve the problem.