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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
At a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Rep. Robert Garcia announced that the House Democrats on the Oversight Committee would be launching a ‘Master ICE tracker’. This follows the previous removal of ICE trackers by Apple and Facebook after the apps and sites tracking activity by immigration law enforcement personnel led to multiple violent confrontations with illegal alien activists, ugly acts of violence and at least one death so far.
These confrontations are not just the work of random extremists, but of a leftist activist base supported by top Democrats and the media which have promoted ICE trackers, distributed the contact information for groups interfering with ICE arrests and subsidized the perpetrators.
Before Carlitos Ricardos Parias, an illegal alien TikTok influencer, was arrested in an alleged car ramming assault on federal agents in Los Angeles, he had received a ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ from Councilmember Curren D. Price Jr for his “tireless efforts to safeguard our neighborhoods from illegal raids”.
Such close cooperation between illegal alien rioters and local Democrat officials first attracted national attention during what some have called ‘Newsom’s Riots’ when leftist groups funded by the governor and other top Dems set off violent confrontations in L.A.. While the riots died down once the National Guard took decisive action, the violence has continued on a smaller scale as the Parias arrest shows with local confrontations by activists backed by California Democrats.
The situation is much more blatant in Portland, Oregon, where the city council unanimously endorsed the ‘Protect Portland Initiative’. Mayor Keith Wilson declared that the move reaffirms that the city is a “proud sanctuary city in a sanctuary state” for illegal aliens. Criminals.
The resolution imposes close oversight on the Portland police to prevent any cooperation with ICE federal law enforcement and to refuse any assistance to ICE personnel, and further orders officers to challenge immigration law enforcement personnel, to ‘log’ information about ICE officers, including ‘badge numbers’ to feed into an ICE tracker, and to protect “protesters”, “medics” and “legal observers”: the latter of which are categories used by Antifa rioters.
Portland police have been recorded shielding rioters from federal law enforcement and coordinating efforts to identify ICE personnel with them. Antifa and illegal alien rioters operate with local police as their human shields in an extension of the illegal ‘sanctuary city’ concept from harboring illegal aliens citywide to providing cover for rioters during confrontations.
This is not just illegal, it is the definition of an insurrection. States and localities providing tactical support and cover for militia groups and other irregulars engaged in attacks on federal personnel have historically met the legal test for being engaged in an insurrection.
California and Oregon Dems are playing a dangerous game, coming closer to a confrontation between local and federal law enforcement by drawing the police into a fight with ICE.
Local California elected officials have pressured police departments to confront ICE since this summer, they’ve urged police chiefs to interfere in arrests and demand identification from federal immigration law enforcement in order to pass on that information to leftist groups who then target those officers personally. They’re passing unenforceable laws ‘banning’ ICE personnel from wearing masks during arrests while leaving it to the police officers on the street to try and enforce them.
All of these activities have moved the status of the so-called sanctuary states and cities from passive refusals to cooperate with immigration authorities to direct confrontations, for now through radical proxies like the rioters and trackers, but that given enough incidents are likely to escalate into ‘blue’ on ‘blue’ violence. And that outcome is exactly the goal they are seeking.
Police officers are being told that their job is to ‘protect’ illegal aliens and rioters, and that federal enforcement, including the deployment of the National Guard is ‘unconstitutional’, and it will only take one or two police officers buying into this insurrectionist and secessionist rhetoric to trigger an incident on the street that begins with a physical confrontation and ends in a firefight.
That will not be a “tragic accident” or an “unfortunate incident” that Democrats and their media will blame on President Trump’s “overreach” and “militarization”, but the result of their plans.
In Portland, the scene of the worst anti-ICE violence, city officials and their local allies have worked to force immigration enforcement out through a variety of means, including zoning regulations and using a nearby housing project and its inhabitants as human shields.
A decade ago, REACH Community Development, a housing nonprofit, plunked down a housing project named Gray’s Landing across the street from where an ICE facility is now located. REACH is run by Margaret Salazar, a former member of the Biden-Harris transition team.
In an interview, Salazar has said that she supports the anti-ICE protests.
The housing project appeared there a few years after ICE leased the site of its current facility in what the New York Times fancifully describes as “a showcase for the state’s history of innovative urban design.” In reality, the ICE facility is in a generic office park across the street from a machine tool shop, right by an overpass, and in the vicinity of the kind of ugly new modernist buildings that cities slap together to attract hipsters to their slums. It’s hard to know whether Gray’s Landing set up shop there to sabotage the ICE facility or because it was cheap.
Gray’s Landing has been appealing for help from what it falsely describes as “Federal violence” and begs for support for “seniors, families, and veterans” from “violent tactics” by Federal agents. As its people know quite well, Gray’s Landing is not dealing with “clean up” costs and violence because ICE is there, but because rioters in support of illegal aliens keep attacking the facility. If there were no riots, there would be no ‘clean up’ and no “chemical agents”.
But the propaganda is a key part of the campaign to oust the ICE facility by abusing zoning regulations, overloading the facility’s ability to transport illegal alien criminals, while then hitting it with zoning violations because the criminals inside it are being detained too long according to the rioters and the police who have been turned into their accomplices to back up their claims.
Democrats and their rioter allies have manufactured a crisis to protect illegal alien criminals.
The political, regulatory, lawfare and street assaults on ICE are a multi-front war to protect a form of organized crime, human trafficking and illegal border invasion, that the Democrats disproportionately benefit from. And California and Oregon Dems are testing out strategies that will be copied by their colleagues across the country as part of a campaign of insurrection.
The anti-ICE violence is not random, it’s not extremist, it’s coming from the top down. It’s a coordinated insurrection and it should be treated like one.
This is just the latest machinations of the “National Socialists Workers Party” (aka, the Nazi party or in modern vernacular, the democrat party) and their black masked paramilitary enforces.
In past history, democrat party paramilitary enforcers were known as the KKK who wore white hooded cones over their faces and burned crosses. They terrorized blacks and anyone else they didn’t like or who opposed them.
History is repeating itself.
Time for all t hose who encourage Acts of Violence against all those who protect America to be Investigated and Arrested and held responsible time to take out the Democrat Trash
The enemy within.
When people have nothing of value to offer, the solution is to impose their dictates upon others through violence and control
Why is this administration allowing the further disintegration of law and order to continue?
Insurrection seems totally applicable here and yet cities, their residents and our ICE enforcement agents are being hunted by these crazed malcontents.
Time to get the jump on this insanity so what is this administration waiting for?
Gabrielle:
It’s called lawfare. The dims and their far left cohorts are using the legal system to thwart Trump’s administration’s efforts to go after those violent miscreants.
But Trump still has an ace up his sleeve that he can invoke. It’s called the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or to enforce the law in certain situations. He should seek legal clarity on who can be declared an insurrectionist and dealt with accordingly.
I’m certain that between you and I (et al), we can name several democrat politicians who can and should be declared insurrectionists.
Being from southern California, I would like nothing better than to see “Mad Maxie” muzzled with a spit mask over her ugly face and chained and slow walked to an awaiting FBI van.
Mad Maxiie belongs in a dog kennel.
Better yet: a medieval torture rack. Then I’d start asking her questions like: how did you get rich? Lie and you’re gonna hurt. Next question: who’s your daddy? Lie and it’s gonna hurt! Next question……
Just threaten to rip her wig off on live tv.
Better yet, a carnival side show, where we get to throw baseballs at her in a dunking tank.
Better yet, How about a dancing democrat jackass in a tutu and a 19 gallon cowboy hat? She could twerk and shake her ass to hip-hop music in front of an audience and then afterwards, use her hat to go around soliciting “donations.” For 100 bucks she’ll even let you “smack dat ass!
Next question: who’s your daddy? Lie and it’s gonna hurt! Next question……
Better yet: a medieval torture rack. Then I’d start asking her questions like: how did you get rich? Lie and you’re gonna hurt. Next question: who’s your daddy? Lie and it’s gonna hurt! Next question……
Better yet, a carnival side show, where we get to throw baseballs at her in a dunking tank.
I’m certain that between you and I (et al), we can name several democrat politicians who can and should be declared insurrectionists.
“Just threaten to rip her wig off on live tv”
Mad Maxie would have one hell of a conniption fit and suffer a brain aneurysm on live TV.
I have one thing to say about that: PAY-PER-VIEW!! Peanuts; popcorn; smoke’em if you got’em!! Enjoy the show!!
I’m certain that between you and I (et al), we can name several democrat politicians who can and should be declared insurrectionists.
The anti-ICE attack last night in Oakland, CA is an example of the administration fighting back against the lawlessness of such protests. Likely there will be more instances of the government (ICE) being forced to use defensive violence to put down the insurrectionists.
The administration is not waiting for anything; it’s trying to keep a heated situation from getting too hot.
They seem to be trying to provoke a Civil War and to think the odds are in their favor. I think that is a strategic error in judgement. The mobs would disappear if confronted by organized armed force.
From my own corner of the U.S.: the left is very very sadly mistaken if they think the can win a civil war. The odds are overwhelmingly against them. None of the few libs I know own a gun (they prefer a golf club or 9-1-1 for “protection.”). On the contrary, just about every conservative I know owns two or more firearms and usually an assortment of deadly weapons and are well trained in their use. And I’ve never encountered a liberal at my local gun range.
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Yes and generally speaking, conservatives are much better armed than lefties. Lefties don’t even like guns and are afraid of them. Lefties tend to be pussies overall. That’s why those Antifa pajama boys gang up on people, because they can’t fight.
They’ll all a bunch of feckless twats. (Can I use that word here?) I’m reminded of the great monologue about p***ies, d*cks and a**holes near the end of the movie “Team America.”
I have to admit, I expected way more chaos, riots and violence. Trump and his crew have seized the initiative and forced the Democrats to react in a way that has exposed them as enemies of America and of Americans. They are running the BLM playbook, except now everybody knows what it is and they no longer have media control or control of the federal agencies. One more thing, this is an insurrection in the same way the Maidan was an insurrection in Ukraine, it is being cooked and directed by foreign entities that control the democrat useful idiots. These include the CCP, the cartels, Soros, Arabella and all the usuals. Trump is masterfully deconstructing their entire ecosystem. It’s very impressive and the democrat response has been weak and pathetic.
I totally agree that all Americans should support ICE workers as legitimate members of government law enforcement. However, to reduce the mounting opposition to ICE, we must have a deep conversation about who is worthy of deportation. At present, all illegal immigrants are subject to deportation. An argument can be made that certain categories of immigrants should be allowed to stay in the US under strictly defined circumstances. Mothers with children who have not committed any crimes and who stay legally clean for ten years should then have the right to apply for citizenship. Single mates who came across the border in the millions should not be allowed to stay unless they apply to and join the US military. Chinese single men should all be deported. We NEED to have a conversation. At present, many citizens of Los Angeles seem to believe that a portion of the “illegals” are now members of their community and deserve to stay. Please let us have a conversation and decide who should stay. Workers in lucrative marijuana farms? Workers in the military-industrial complex? Let us talk.
This is wrong. The goal of those opposing deportations is to allow every single illegal to stay, including criminals. Not only that, they want open borders, because their goal is to destroy the country and turn it into a dystopian leftist nightmare. You are also wrong about growing opposition to ICE. There is, in fact, growing support of ICE. The dumber your arguments get, the more the people support deportations.
Just offhand, I’d say deport all illegal aliens via catapult.
Trebuchets are very cool, Medieval engineering.
The Romans had arrow firing catapults that verged on being machine guns.
Yes, the trebuchets were far superior to catapults.,They were even better than the Roman ones and the Romans were the most advanced people of their time, as you know. The morons who describe the Medieval period as the “dark Ages” are full of shit. The Chartres Cathedral was built in the Medieval Period, along with pretty much the rest of them. Even the Irish preserved civilization! And the Irish were pretty barbaric!
Nahh. To expensive and over-engineered. I say buy some cheap Walmart twine, plastic yard trash bags and duct tape and fashion parachutes out of the material.
Then gather the illegals in a military transport plane, fly them over their country of origin, hand each of them a “parachute” and then push them out. Problem solved–on the cheap!
Illegal immigration is a situation that exploded into a crisis a few years back. It’s no longer just about catching lawbreakers, it’s about rescuing what’s left of our country. We have been seriously overrun by all sorts of people I would NOT like for neighbirs, and sometimes drastic measured are all that’s left.
George Mallory:
If the law make exceptions for women and children but not men, then that necessarily means that justice is not blind. In a society that’s built on and values law & order, what you suggest sets a precedent that undermines the very meaning of LAW & ORDER.
We have hundreds, perhaps thousands of laws against entering our country illegally. Laws that the Biden administration refuse to enforce. And now apparently, you’re endorsing that policy? Are you a down low liberal democrat trolling this forum?
Nope, no exceptions.
Broken windows policing is the way to go.
Act on every single act of criminality, don’t let anything slide.
If you give any sort of leeway leftard judges and lawyers while run a road train full of illegals through it the very first chance they see.
If a fifty mile wide strip going all the way up the western coast were to secede, as some have suggested it do, it would be interesting to see how long it would take to turn into another Gaza, particularly with no more federal money coming in.
Great summary of the chaos going on in the country.
The anti=ICE protests are the preamble to the big insurrection the Democrats want to stage. Blinded by pure hatred of Trump, the Democrats are willing to sacrifice everything to achieve their nefarious goal — taking down the Trump administration and the country with it to gain power they cannot gain legitimately. Violence will necessarily be used to combat violence. Unspeakable developments seem inevitable.
First of all, i want to thank Joe Biden for his heroic efforts to put it to the Republicans.at the expense of peace on American streets. His patriotism has always been in question from 50 years ago.
Secondly, all of these Democrats that promote the cause of the illegals at the expense of peace in our nation, are directly promoting anarchy. There should be no quarter for these buffoons. They are openly violating the law. Federal charges on the biggest fish in the pond would send a direct message to the promoters of chaos. A couple of high-profile arrest of Newsom, Bass or Pritzker would do wonders for the peace on American streets. When one openly violates the Federal Laws, they are criminals is three-piece suits.
I have no doubt that our president has set enough traps to hang them. They have no legal ground for their actions and are acting as surrogates for the cartels. The financiers for this anarchy will soon pay the price, because they are being tracked. by the DOJ and the receipts are being collected.
Well, until, maybe, someday we just might get a Real Conservative idealistic federal executive branch, this anarchy will not just continue, it will get much, much worse. President Trump is doing some good but he’s a middle-of-the-road guy. Not very tough. As tough as hussein-obama was in pushing the leftist democrat party and the entire federal government far left, we need some Conservative to be tough and move the government not just to the middle, but far right.
We are in Civil War Deux.
Democrats are the enemy of people. Fools that support democrats do not realize by refusing to see that the democrat party is the enemy of USA citizens! All the democrats want is power and the wealth that comes from it.
Insurrection is the word and Insurrection Act is the law that President Trump should declare Martial Law in these cities and send in the National Guard so ICE can carry out their sworn duties and orders!
The relationship between these leftists and local officials including cops is literally a repeat of the 1950’s and 1960’s in the South when the segregationists and the kkk and the cops colluded together. They need to be dealt with by all legal means.
DOJ enforce the laws. You are not protecting our country and officers.
The main federal law that covers exposing federal officers to harm is 18 U.S. Code § 111: Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees. This statute criminalizes any forcible act that places a federal officer or employee at risk while they are performing their official duties.
Exposing an officer to harm falls under the broader scope of this law, which does not require direct physical contact. “Threatening behavior or any act that would cause a reasonable person to fear immediate bodily harm is considered a forcible assault.” The penalties for violating this law are scaled according to the severity of the offense.
18 U.S. Code § 1114: This statute protects all U.S. government officers and employees, including military personnel, and is cited in § 111. A person who kills an officer protected under this statute while they are performing their official duties is subject to penalties for murder or manslaughter.
18 U.S. Code § 372: This law covers conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.
18 U.S. Code § 1503: This is an obstruction of justice statute that covers corruptly influencing, intimidating, or impeding any officer of a U.S. court.
It’s time to use the Insurrection Act and take all these leftist police departments under Federal Control! Anyone who impedes or obstructs should be arrested! Anyone giving orders for police to obstruct should be arrested! this crap has to stop before a LOT of people get killed! The left keeps pushing for it – from BEHIND!
Several years ago we were told that the far left democrat camp was working on this very thing. Where illegal immigrants and far left individuals with zero allegiance to the United States or her history would be hired to be the next police force in certain locations, like sanctuary states and cities. This is what we are seeing. The Portland police force that would protect the criminals from federal police agents are just what was predicted several years ago.
Many of Danny greenfield’s columns Should be required reading for media and schools. All actions by humans in political sphere are deliberate and agenda driven. And usually malevolent. Praying for Civilization.
Meet the new commies. Same as the old commies. Don’t get fooled again.