In their desperation to show hardcore partisans that they’re all-in the “Trump resistance,” Democratic electeds are encouraging violent attacks on federal immigration agents.
Border Czar Tom Homan erupted in fury on the issue Friday, a day after protesters hurled rocks (and seemingly fired a gun) at agents raiding a massive marijuana operation that was apparently using illegal-migrant juveniles as slave labor.
On July 4, rioters assaulted officers at an ICE facility in Portland, while Antifa types, with flags reading “Fight ICE terror with class war,” ambushed ICE agents south of Dallas, shooting one officer in the neck.
On July 7, heavily armed Ryan Louis Mosqueda fired dozens of rounds at Border Patrol officers in McAllen, Texas, before return fire killed him.
Even before all that, the Department of Homeland Security reported a 700% increase in violent attacks against ICE agents nationwide.
And a lot of Democratic politicians cheered on the extremists.
In May, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver got themselves arrested by forcing their way into a migrant-detention center in a chaotic rally-verging-on-riot.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass last week interfered with an ICE operation against migrant criminals who’ve largely taken over iconic MacArthur Park.
And of course city Comptroller Brad Lander last month staged a photo-op arrest by interfering with federal officers taking a border-jumping perp into custody at a courthouse; he’s now publicly urging “asylum seekers” to skip their court dates entirely and go into hiding.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) has praised agitators for illegally blocking federal officers’ entry to courthouses, and called ICE agents a “terrorist force” that is “kidnapping” people.
Electeds swear to carry out the law, but this bunch is all about defying it.
Sure, they say they only back nonviolent, “peaceful” action against immigration enforcement — but their dramatics and over-the-top rhetoric inspire and implicitly justify the violence.
Coordinated armed attacks against the government are rare in America, but the anti-ICE assaults look to be just getting started — with shameless scoundrels like Lander cheering for a descent into civil war.
