Across the country, Democratic candidates are “expressing horror at Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s tactics and ratcheting up calls to restrict the agency’s reach in the wake of Good’s killing and other dramatic ICE escalations.” According to RedState, this sudden moral panic has also reopened long?standing internal Democrat fights over whether to “rein in, defund or abolish ICE” altogether, with primary contests increasingly serving as purity tests on who can sound the most hostile to immigration enforcement.
The “tactics” that have Democrat elites clutching their pearls are nothing more than ICE agents enforcing existing immigration law against people who entered or remain in the country illegally. There is nothing exotic or extraordinary about these methods; they are standard police procedures used every day by law enforcement agencies across the United States.
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Anyone who has watched a few old episodes of “Law and Order” would recognize the basic pattern: officers identify a suspect, attempt an arrest, and respond with force only when confronted with violence or a deadly threat. Yet the left has chosen to portray these ordinary operations as some kind of unprecedented assault on civil liberties, hoping voters will forget that immigration enforcement is a basic function of a sovereign nation.
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Even the tragic death of a woman in Minnesota, which Democrats have seized upon as a rallying cry, is not the outlandish atrocity they claim. Ms. Renee Good was a left?wing radical, working in tandem with organized groups, who was using her car to block ICE agents, and when confronted she “dangerously decided to use her car to drive into one of them” – a decision clearly visible on video.
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That act forced the agent to defend himself, and “this led the agent to shoot her in self-defense as she hit him,” with reports indicating the officer suffered internal injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle. A car is a deadly weapon, and any person who attempts to run down a police officer with a vehicle can expect a similar response, with prosecutors in such cases rarely, if ever, charging the officer for using lethal force.
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What truly stands out in this episode is not ICE’s conduct but the escalating rhetoric and orchestrated fury coming from Democrat politicians and activists. The unrelenting theme of “resistance,” the cultivated anger, and the willingness to flirt with violence have become defining features of the left’s campaign against ICE and the Trump administration.
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Prominent Democrat officials have gone far beyond normal criticism and into reckless demagoguery. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has portrayed ICE as a “Gestapo” and insists it is merely the tool of President Trump, whom he and others routinely label an “authoritarian” or a “dictator.”
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In the U.S. Senate, the language has been equally inflammatory. One prominent senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, has claimed that ICE is “lawless,” while another, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, has declared that “ICE needs to be torn down,” rhetoric that invites contempt for the rule of law rather than reasoned debate about policy.
Online and on television, Democrat officeholders and left?wing commentators are saturating the airwaves with fundraising appeals and calls to “fight” the administration. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, previously part of the so?called “Seditious Six” who urged military personnel to refuse Trump administration orders, is among those begging for donations to “fight” the “evil” Trump administration.
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Long?time liberal pundit Juan Williams is promoting a plan to “fight” ICE over what he calls its “reckless” and “unjustifiable” killing, while also claiming that the president is trying “to scare people into silence to halt rising dissent.” This kind of language is not aimed at informing the public; it is designed to inflame passions, delegitimize lawful authority, and turn routine enforcement into a moral crusade.
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Unsurprisingly, the rank?and?file Democrat base has been whipped into a frenzy of hostility. Many Americans have seen this rage firsthand from Democrat relatives, friends, and co?workers, as talking points about “Gestapo” tactics and “dictatorship” filter down from party elites and left?wing media.
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Minnesota has become a particularly stark example of how this rhetoric translates into real?world intimidation. There, left?wing rioters invaded a church and menaced parishioners in the name of protesting ICE, an incident so egregious that it has reportedly prompted a Department of Justice investigation into the activists’ conduct.
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Lost in all this hysteria is any sense of proportion about what ICE actually does in the vast majority of cases. Consider the typical illegal alien who has committed no crime beyond entering or remaining in the country unlawfully, and who has not engaged in murder, rape, or other violent offenses, even though “unfortunately, some illegal aliens commit multiple crimes after they enter the country.”
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Such an individual may be working in the United States and sending part of his paycheck back to his family abroad, but that does not erase the fact that he is here in violation of federal law. In these circumstances, what “evil” act is ICE committing at the direction of Donald Trump?
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The answer is straightforward: ICE is arresting him, processing him, and arranging for his removal. He is not being consigned to some dungeon for years on end, “unless the courts get involved at the behest of the Democrats”; instead, unlike ordinary criminals, he is “merely going to be shipped back to his home country,” and “contrary to the silly left-wing propaganda, there is no torture involved.”
It is also crucial to remember that the laws ICE enforces were not invented by the Trump administration. Most of the statutory framework governing immigration enforcement was enacted by prior Congresses and signed by presidents of both parties, and the current administration is simply carrying out those laws as written.
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For Democrat elites to equate this process with the treatment of dissidents in totalitarian regimes, especially Nazi Germany, is not only false but morally grotesque. It trivializes the suffering of real victims who were “imprisoned for great lengths of time, tortured, or even murdered,” and it weaponizes historical atrocities for short?term partisan gain.
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Yet there is little indication that Democrat leaders intend to dial back their rhetoric or their strategy. Many of the more cynical among them appear to be betting that the public, exhausted by the very chaos Democrats have helped create, will ultimately blame Donald Trump and the GOP for the unrest in 2026.
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Others see a more direct political payoff in the form of future votes from illegal immigrants and their extended networks once amnesty or mass regularization is achieved. Still others simply despise Donald Trump and the Republican Party so intensely that they reflexively oppose anything associated with border enforcement or national sovereignty.
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In Minnesota, there may be an additional, more parochial motive at work. Democrats there, led by Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, face growing scrutiny over a massive Somali?led fraud scheme that “may have cost the taxpayers $9 billion,” and a high?octane campaign against ICE and Trump offers a convenient distraction from their own failures.
From a broader historical perspective, this pattern of behavior from Democrat elites is deeply troubling for the health of the Republic. As has been observed, “the Democrat elites are certainly not helping us ‘keep’ our Republic,” and their current conduct echoes the party’s worst episodes from the 1840s through the 1860s, when they likewise “pushed disunity and states’ rights” in ways that tore at the nation’s fabric.
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That earlier experiment in division “didn’t turn out well for anyone, as you may have heard,” and today’s reckless attacks on lawful immigration enforcement risk steering the country down a similarly dangerous path. A serious nation cannot endure if one of its major parties treats border security as illegitimate, law enforcement as “Gestapo,” and historical truth as just another tool in a partisan arsenal.
