Progressives must be honest about who is breaking the law

Who is to blame for the ICE riots protests?

The President? The media? California politicians? The protesters?

I can determine who you voted for President by how you answered. Probably, so can you.

What’s happening now puts me in mind of the wave of shoplifting that followed progressive district attorneys — you know who they are — who decided to not prosecute shoplifters because, I don’t know — they were poor, or oppressed, victims of the system, gender confused, or whatever.

I find it hard to draw a connecting line between being oppressed and snagging $100 yoga pants at LuluLemon, or shampoo at CVS.

Eventually, the clueless D.A.s — looking at you Larry Krasner — smelled the coffee and had to return to enforcing the law.

That is what ICE is doing — enforcing federal law.

It shocked the hell out of the illegals in L.A., and elsewhere, because they had become so comfortable in Sanctuaries where the law had been flouted for decades. Over time, they felt entitled to stay here. It was their right.

There is no such right. Anyone here without permission is subject to removal. And Americans approved.

That is what President Donald J. Trump is doing, just as he promised — and he did not promise to remove only the “bad hombres.” He was very clear about mass deportation, which I don’t like. And I have suggested an alternative. 

It gives me bleeding hemorrhoids to listen to hypocritical progressives talk about the “injustice” to illegals when they refuse to acknowledge illegal behavior by the migrants.

It’s like they’ll break out in hives if they talk straight.

An overwhelming majority of Americans say they are OK with removing felons, which Sanctuaries do not help the feds do. Deporting illegals who have committed crimes won an 80% approval rating in a recent Harvard-Harris poll.

Wait! That means 20% don’t approve of deporting foreign felons? Who are these people?

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Screaming “We don’t want ICE in our community” is exactly the same as the collapsed and moronic “defund the police” movement.

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to accuse Trump of breaking the law when your whole damn city is enabling law breakers.

Over and over I have heard the same lame litany of excuses for the illegal behavior.

They do jobs Americans won’t do.

Who did those jobs before they arrived?

They are not doing any harm.

They are doing harm by breaking the law. It’s a bad example.

They are hard-working people.

If they are working they are breaking that law.

They pay taxes.

That means they are using a fake Social Security number, yet another broken law.

It’s not really law. It is only a civil  offense.

It is a federal offense. Chapter 8, section 1325 of the U.S. Code prohibits illegal entry, a misdemeanor. Illegal reentry is a felony under section 1326.

They are good people.

Good people don’t break the law.

They are our neighbors.

Gary Heidnik was someone’s neighbor.

They just want a better life.

Let them take a number and wait their turn.

The immigration system is racist.

 It hasn’t been racist since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that abolished favoring Northern and Western Europe. The Top Ten countries now sending us immigrants are Mexico, India, China, the Philippines, El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, South Korea. Not one of them is white. 

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It is impossible to have a serious discussion until the Sanctuary people admit that illegals are breaking the law.

At the same time, ICE must be condemned when it breaks the law, haphazardly rounds up innocent people and denies due process. And I have criticized the agency. 

I apply the same rules to both sides.

Denial is not a winning position for Democrats. A few days back CNN’s Harry Enten reported  that legal voting immigrants swung 40 points from Democrats to Republicans since 2020 on the issue of trust on immigration. Enten was astounded, and so should Democrats. They have lost the immigrants, the legal ones, anyway.

Border control/immigration was Trump’s No. 2 issue, following the economy. You may not like it, but he is doing what he said he would do.

He is accused of stoking fear, and there is some truth to that. People who are breaking the law should be fearful of arrest. I anxiously await media reports of “fearful” shoplifters “communities.”

Sometime Thursday it was reported that Trump was hearing from his business friends that deporting too many illegals would hurt their businesses. (Translation: They love cheap labor.) Instead of telling them it is against the law to hire illegals, he’s talking about carving out exceptions for them.

If that is true, that opens a door to an actual conversation about illegal immigration, and a better way to deal with it.