Border czar Tom Homan’s now in Minneapolis, de-escalating the ICE wars there with some initial success — but many anti-enforcement voices across the country are still pushing the other way.
Homan says Mayor Jacob Frey, Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison have assured him the state’s prisons and jails will start handing over illegal-immigrant criminals to ICE, rather than releasing them back into the community.
That’ll allow Homeland Security to “start drawing down” its presence, as the feds won’t have to go into the community to nab the “worst of the worst” (which also means they’re less likely to come across less-toxic illegal migrants whom they’d then be obliged to also bring in).
It also vastly reduces the opportunities for “ICE Watch” extremists to interfere en masse, causing dangerous chaos as the lawmen try to do their jobs.
Yet Homan also pointedly noted that the drawdown “could happen even more if the hateful rhetoric and impediments stop.”
Hmm: The same day, Frey blasted ICE’s presence in Minneapolis as an “occupation” and warned the “endurance of the republic” is at stake, thundering that Americans “can’t back down” from fighting against ICE.
That is, the mayor is urging people across the country to interfere with federal agents enforcing federal law.
The feckless Walz reinforced that point by asking if events in Minneapolis are a “Fort Sumter” moment for the country; we don’t think he realized that put him on the side of the Confederates who attacked the federal government in South Carolina and so began the Civil War.
Recall that Walz and Frey bear significant blame for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti since they ordered local law enforcement to stay away when activists sought to frustrate the feds — a step dramatically more radical than simply telling cops not to help ICE with its enforcement work.
Elsewhere, the “resistance” posturing has gotten far worse:
- Far-left Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner this week threatened to slap ICE agents with state charges after President Donald Trump leaves office, so the prez can’t pardon them: “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will.”
- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes claimed her state’s Stand Your Ground law gives civilians the right to shoot masked ICE agents on their property if they feel endangered.
Spoiler: It doesn’t — states can’t legalize attacking the feds for doing their job; is Mayes also picking up the Confederate cause?
Homan also vowed, “Justice is coming” for the far-left groups funding and coordinating attacks on ICE and Border Patrol agents — which points to yet another peril most Americans aren’t yet aware of.
Groups like ICE Watch are the most visible part of very scary networks organized in paramilitary style, compiling databases of suspected ICE license plates, using central dispatchers to send instant “protest” crowds to interfere with federal operations and even trying to evict agents from their hotels.
Whether or not the Goods and Prettis on the ground realize it, these aggressive tactics are designed to provoke dangerous confrontations that undermine public support for law enforcement.
For all the mistakes Homeland Security made in Minneapolis, Homan is doing his best to de-escalate.
We hope the politicians and activists on the other side follow suit.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
