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“The local protesters do not want the illegals deported, period. Even if the ICE force was incredibly well trained, wore white gloves, and followed Waldorf-Astoria rules of etiquette, if they are effective, local dissenters will press forward with resistance until it produces confrontations and some violence. That’s the way it worked in the antiwar movement I was a part of
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It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Greg’s building, was a textile factory, became an office building. It’s not a nice part of town. I wouldn’t take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business But somehow they had 400 offices doing business with Medicaid charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer. That means basically each of those businesses made a million dollars. You wouldn’t walk in this building in the city part of Minneapolis. I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening, certainly collaborating with these folks. Maybe even I wonder, the folks who were in the building, the neighborhood, someone knew… We were chased out of buildings by car honking, people giving us the finger…
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I also do not see a single state and local law enforcement officer there to help. And that should be the narrative that we’re talking about, is that what we have is ICE doing isolated operations to get criminals off the street, with zero cooperation from the governor, from leadership in Congress, or from the mayor. And so when you see what we just observed, was that peaceful protesting? Of course not. That was a very violent occurrence because ICE cannot do their job effectively when law enforcement — local law enforcement refuses to help. And that is what is so tragic about what happened yesterday and what’s been happening in Minneapolis for the past several weeks, is that ICE is doing all of this work, doing their jobs, and local law enforcement are not being allowed to do a single thing to help. And that is dangerous, as we saw yesterday morning.
