Category: Immigration and customs enforcement
One Of Only Dems To Vote For ICE Funding Now Calls For Kristi Noem’s Impeachment
‘She is not focused on safety or border security; she’s focused on chaos and self-promotion, undermining local law enforcement and stoking violence as a result’
‘I’m Older Than ICE’: Zohran Mamdani Deflects When Called Out On His Anti-Enforcement Rhetoric
‘You know, immigration existed long before ICE’
‘What’s Happening In Minnesota Is Appalling’: Schumer Vows Dems Won’t Support ‘Woefully Inadequate’ DHS Funding Bill
‘woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE’
‘Handcuff ICE’ bid fails: Appeals court overrules Biden judge, restores agents’ power to stop hostile mobs
Anti-ICE activists’ attempts to frustrate federal immigration law enforcement in Minneapolis and elsewhere hit a snag on Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and three Minnesota-based law firms filed a lawsuit on Dec. 17 against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging its agents violated the constitutional rights of several anti-ICE activists, including a Minnesota woman and a Somali-American who were both accused of attacking federal agents.
A federal judge who was nominated by former President Joe Biden ruled last week in favor of the radicals.
‘A liberal judge in Minnesota tried to handcuff ICE agents.’
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez prohibited federal agents involved in Operation Metro Surge and related operations in the Gopher State from:
- “retaliating against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity”;
- arresting such persons;
- “using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity”; and
- “stopping or detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with Covered Federal Agents.”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security promptly appealed the Biden judge’s ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. On Wednesday, the appellate court granted the defendants an administrative stay of Menendez’s preliminary injunction.
Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared greatly pleased with the higher court’s ruling.
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“A liberal judge in Minnesota tried to handcuff ICE agents who are enforcing the Nation’s immigration laws and responding to obstructive and violent interference from agitators,” Bondi said in a statement on Wednesday.
“The 8th Circuit just granted an administrative stay HALTING these restrictions, which were designed to undermine federal law enforcement,” continued the attorney general. “This DOJ will protect federal law enforcement agents from criminals in the streets AND activist judges in the courtroom.”
Federal agents didn’t waste any time taking advantage of their restored abilities.
Hours after the ruling, Greg Bovino of U.S. Border Patrol was caught on tape warning a hostile crowd of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis that gas was coming, then tossing a gas canister their way.
The Department of Homeland Security indicated that “Border Patrol agents who were in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as part of a targeted enforcement operation were repeatedly harassed and blocked by hostile crowds while simply trying to take bathroom breaks.”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving, creating unsafe conditions,” said the DHS. “At one stop, individuals in the crowd threw food at the agents. At their final gas station stop, someone spit on an agent. When an agent moved to detain the person who spit on him, the crowed tackled and attacked the agents while surrounding them. To safely clear the area agents had to use crowd control measures to disperse the hostile crowd.”
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Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal Claims Nearly All Protesters Peaceful Despite Disruptions
‘99.9%, have been engaging in peaceful protest’
Gregg Jarrett Calls Don Lemon A ‘Dope’ Who Doesn’t Know Most Important Part About Right To Protest
‘Lemon himself could also be prosecuted’
Trump DHS sets the record straight after left-wing critics accuse ICE of dragging ‘half-naked’ American from his home
Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers of dragging an American citizen with no criminal history from his home over the weekend.
Videos circulated on social media of a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, appearing to show federal agents escorting an elderly man from his home, through the snow, and into a federal vehicle. The handcuffed man was wearing only shorts and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders.
‘Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul.’
Reuters reported that his family requested a Hmong interpreter.
“Marching half-naked elderly people out into the snow, your tax dollars at work,” columnist Jill Filipovic wrote.
Political commentator Ed Krassenstein called the Trump administration “disgusting,” adding that the man detained by federal agents was a “U.S. citizen with no criminal record.”
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“Armed ICE agents broke down the door without presenting a valid warrant, entered with guns drawn, and handcuffed him in front of his 5-year-old grandson, who was left crying and traumatized,” Krassenstein said.
“ICE then drove him around for nearly an hour, questioned and fingerprinted him, confirmed he was a citizen and not the person they were looking for… and dropped him back at home. No apology. No explanation. No accountability.”
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described Krassenstein’s post as “fear mongering,” explaining that ICE was attempting to arrest two convicted sex offenders.
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“One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence, and violating a protective order. Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” McLaughlin wrote.
“The US citizen,” McLaughlin continued, presumably referring to the man detained in the video, “lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation.”
“The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets. As with any law enforcement agency, it is standard protocol to hold all individuals in a house of an operation for safety of the public and law enforcement,” McLaughlin added. “Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul. We will be providing the public with photos and descriptors to help us locate and apprehend these public safety threats.”
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The left’s ‘fascism’ routine is a permission slip for violence
The alternate reality Democrats have constructed is falling apart in real time. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said the following when asked to comment on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shooting a woman in Minneapolis who was attempting to run over the agent with her car: “What we saw today was a criminal, a criminal, murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life.”
She then called “disgusting” the “editorializing” of those who argue that the ICE agent was in front of the car as it was accelerating, just before he fired. “Watch it for yourself, watch it for yourself,” she concluded, with supreme confidence that any viewer would see with the same skew of her own lens.
A significant portion of the American media and popular culture has normalized the idea that totalitarians have taken over the government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) went even harder over the rhetorical cliff in responding to the shooting. He classified interpretations of the ICE officer’s action as self-defense as “bull***t” and demanded that ICE “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.” Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in New York followed suit, calling the event a “murder” and a “horror.”
It is a stark bit of evidence of how American society has been warped by the twisted rhetoric of the radical left regarding political conflict in our country.
The video from the officer who fired at the vehicle indicates clearly, however, that it was accelerating in his direction, with him close enough to touch the hood. How is it possible to watch video footage and see it as the “murder” of someone “flee[ing] for her life”? The vehicle was illegally blocking a law enforcement vehicle. Instead of complying with the demand to exit the vehicle as any sane person would do, the driver hit the gas, making contact with the law enforcement officer before being shot.
Are we to believe that ICE agents came there precisely to kill her?
The New York Times published a video analysis that supposedly debunks the claim that the agent fired in self-defense. How? Well, the wheels of the SUV turned to the right just in time to avoid hitting the agent. Never mind that the agent was standing just in front of the vehicle when it started to move forward quickly, and he moved to avoid it. By the Times’ logic, the agent would apparently have been justified to use force only after the SUV had hit him.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said he doubts an FBI investigation of the shooting could reach a “fair outcome.” He’s given no reason why he believes this. But of course, if your view is that all sides not directly aligned with you ideologically are Nazis, this is a logical conclusion.
One might first hypothesize that Ocasio-Cortez, Frey, Walz, Mamdani, and others who share their bizarre interpretation of the evidence are cognitively challenged in some way. We do not wholly discount this possibility.
But the more likely answer is that such things become possible when a significant portion of the American media and popular culture has normalized the idea that totalitarians have taken over the government and are actively looking to kill their opponents. In such a scenario, attempting to run over the totalitarians with your car might not only be an acceptable choice — it might be the most moral one.
The Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin connected the event to the language the far left has been using to describe ICE: “This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing [a] 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.”
There is no doubt that political radicals have been foaming at the mouth about ICE and other aspects of the Trump administration’s policies in the most extremist language. They’ve justified using violence against them even since before the first Trump administration took office.
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The alleged assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk in September, who was involved in a relationship with a transsexual, had come to believe that Kirk and other conservatives who criticized the overreach of trans radical activism were such a deadly threat that only lethal force was appropriate. He wrote anti-fascist messages on the casings of the bullets he used.
None of this is a surprise in a culture in which American nationalism is seen as the equivalent of Nazism and violent attacks against the Trump administration and its supporters are cheered on and encouraged. And it is not just the explicitly political media that embraces this insanity.
Witness the response to “One Battle After Another,” the recent film by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland.” Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, the film cheerleads for a radical anti-fascist terrorist organization as they wage war on American police and immigration forces. Penn is cast in a stupendously comical role as a caricature of which the left never tires: He is a military figure and a white supremacist who nonetheless is sexually attracted to nonwhites. All of the admirable figures in the film are revolutionary terrorists. The response by critics in the mainstream media has been a virtually unanimous cheer.
We are in a dangerous place. Leftist radicals are giving no indication of cooling their rhetoric — or their actions.
Buckle up. It is going to get rougher before it gets better.
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.
‘This Is What You F*cking Wanted’: Video Shows Pro-ICE And Anti-ICE Demonstrators Clash As Rioting Continues
‘This is what you fucking wanted!’
Democratic Rep Jason Crow Floats Government Shutdown To Punish ICE
‘we should be using the funding bills’
