The state of minnesota and the city of minneapolis are culpable in what has transpired. Out of political ideology they decided to ignore immigration laws and create sanctuary states / cities. Trump ran on enorcing immigration laws and securing the border. ICE has a role to play in our immigration laws and is justified in being there (not necessarily in its tactics), just being there to enforce the laws. Now you have socialist / marxist groups funding and organizing protests and using social media to stir up and agitate protesters that when combined with the poor leadership in minnesota and dhs, and the poorly executed leadership on the ground, we get people killed and a disaster. ICE leaving isn't the right solution. What message does that send? Anti American leftist groups can dictate whether we enforce laws they disagree with by agitating and manipulating a group to get in the middle of a federal agency performing its duties? That would make things worse.
When you get down to the root cause of much of this, it comes back to the left opposing immigration laws. Wanting to abolish ICE is the same as opposing immigration laws isn't it? If you want ICE reform or better training or whatever, you don't run around yelling abolish ICE. You oppose certain tactics, but you don't oppose their right to enforce the laws. Do you disagree with that?
1. They are not ignoring immigration laws. Sanctuary city policies are not against the law. That's why right-wingers who have been suing over these policies for decades have gotten nowhere. It's why Trump is now calling on Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities. It won't work, because "sanctuary cities" is simply the 10th amendment in action.
The modern formulation of the 10th Amendment was provided by Justice Scalia in a case called Printz. He wrote that federal agents have no power to commandeer state agents in enforcement of federal laws. In that case, the federal law required state officials to assist in ATF enforcement of gun laws. Scalia said nope, not allowed.
Did Scalia get it wrong? Should the federal government require state police to enforce gun laws?
2. None of these groups are anti-American, or leftist. This has been pointed out to you many times. The anti-American group in this situation is ICE. The way to know that is that never in our history -- with one exception -- have masked men been encouraged by the government to conduct fear and terror campaigns among and against American citizens. That exception was the KKK in the 1860s.
So, is opposition to the KKK anti-American? What is the line between anti-American and anti-fascist?
3. The root cause of this is ICE. That's all. It's not the left opposing immigration laws. We know this because we can look at history. ICE, under Obama, captured and deported people. Did leftists berate him for that? A few, yes; by far the majority of people weren't upset about it because ICE was not abusing its power. During Trump 1.0, did we have ICE observers roaming around? We did not. During Biden, ICE continued to catch people and deport them, and nobody on the left particularly cared.
And now, and only now, are we seeing organized groups of ICE observers. I suppose it's possible that everyone suddenly had a massive change of heart, but it seems a lot more likely that they are responding to a new development: ICE agents roaming the streets with guns and masks in unmarked vehicles, searching and seizing people based on skin color alone and committing brutal acts of violence against Americans. I'm not even talking about these shootings. I'm talking about the other brutal violent episodes that started in February 2025. Hundreds of documented incidents of ICE brutality.
Do you really think this is about opposition to immigration laws? Or the activity of a terror agency?
