By Douglas V. Gibbs
Before you believe the Democrats and their Leftist allies that President Donald J. Trump is violating the First Amendment with his policies, in particular his immigration policies, the apprehension and deportation of illegal aliens, and his quelling of the violent protests against those policies, let’s be reminded that the First Amendment includes the right to peaceably assemble – not to violently assemble. Between the violence and the attempts to interfere with federal officers to carry out their duties, let’s recognize that if anyone is violating the Constitution, it’s not President Donald Trump. And if someone is being honest in their observations, the reality is that the radical left has officially lost its mind — and its moral compass. We now live in a country where violent mobs attacking federal immigration officers are not only tolerated by the leftists in the political realm and the lamestream media, they’re celebrated. That’s right. The mainstream leftist press, the progressive Democrats, and their activist echo chamber are defending rioters who assault ICE and Border Patrol agents. They’re calling it justice. I call it treasonous insanity.
These brave men and women — federal officers enforcing the law — are being compared to the Gestapo. The Gestapo! That’s not just historically illiterate, it’s morally bankrupt. These agents are executing federal immigration law, protecting our borders, and removing dangerous criminals from our streets. And what do they get in return? Death threats. Doxing. Attacks on their families. And now, according to Joyce Vance during a segment on MSNBC, they’re kidnapping and their radical opposition has the legal authority to physically attack them. That’s incitement.
Let’s be clear: these attacks are not isolated. They’re organized. They’re escalating. President Trump recently revealed that assaults on immigration officers have surged nearly 700% compared to last year. During Independence Day weekend — the very holiday that celebrates our Union’s founding — ICE facilities in Texas and Oregon were targeted by armed protestors wearing body armor and firing automatic weapons.
It’s clear who the domestic terrorists truly are.
And what does the left say? “They’re just undocumented immigrants.” That’s like calling a drug dealer an undocumented pharmacist. Then their attempt to pull your heartstrings kicks in. “They’re doing jobs Americans won’t do.” “They’re law-abiding.” Law-abiding? They broke the law the moment they crossed the border illegally. And the agents enforcing that law are heroes, not villains.
Let me ask you something: if someone broke into your house, would you let them stay because they washed your dishes? Of course not. You’d call the cops. You’d demand justice. But when it comes to our country’s borders, the left wants to throw the doors open and punish anyone who dares to protect it. Do you throw the door open when someone knocks? Of course not. In your own home you vet who enters. “Who is it?” we all ask when someone knocks. America is our home, and the borders are our front door. A secure border is not only common sense, it is something we all practice individually at our own homes.
Trump’s immigration policies have been wildly successful. Illegal crossings are down. Criminal deportations are up. Domestic employment is rising. And the myth that Americans won’t do the jobs that illegals do? I’ve got news for you — it’s not true. That’s why as illegal aliens are being deported and those jobs are opening up, as I write this Americans are taking those jobs. My grandfather was a sharecropper who worked in the fields of California’s Central Valley. My father-in-law worked the fields as a legal immigrant before becoming a pipe welder. Americans do those jobs – some native to this country, and some legal immigrants – but the truth is there are those other than law-breakers who jump the border willing to perform those tasks. The Democrats just hate that truth because if those folks are employed, they won’t be on Welfare – and Democrats judge the success of government benefits by the number of people they can get hooked on that addiction. Meanwhile, their policies about immigration, and a lack of border security has not made America more prosperous, it has encouraged lawlessness.
The Democrats want a servant class. They’ve traded slavery for dependency. They’ve moved the plantation from cotton fields to welfare offices. They don’t want illegal immigrants in this country because they have a big heart — they want them here to serve them. And they want you to pay for it.
Rather than compassion, the Democrats are practicing corruption and control and the reality is those policies are simply killing our country.
ICE and Border Patrol are not the enemy. They are the last line of defense against chaos. And the left? They’re not just wrong — they’re dangerous – and their blatant disregard for law and order is not only dangerous, it is as unconstitutional as it gets.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
