Let’s Be Honest About ICE

 

How about we stop pretending and be honest about Immigration. And those who are tasked with enforcing immigration law. For the slow folks, or the Liberals who just refuse to face facts, ICE is federal law enforcement. Law Enforcement. They’re not military, they’re not soldiers, and they’re not the White House’s special army. They’re law enforcement. And they are enforcing this country’s laws, whether you agree with those laws or not.

So, let’s be honest. If you are protesting ICE… If you are attacking ICE agents... If you are actively and intentionally interfering with their efforts to do their jobs… Then you are choosing to side with the criminals. You are choosing to support Crime over safety. You are choosing to support Non-citizens over American citizens. And if you believe that you are in the right? Well, you’re not.

Let’s consider the Left’s arguments. They say ICE agents are heavily armed and operate as military. They cover their faces with masks. They raid homes and businesses like SWAT teams. They’re going after innocent people who have lived and worked in the community for years. They’re frightening innocent children.

Let’s be honest. They’re doing the best they can, while judges, and politicians, and paid protesters are actively standing in their way. In a perfect world, things might be very different.

ICE agents could show up in suits and ties and knock on doors. They could politely inform non-citizens that they are in violation of the country’s immigration laws. They could hand out pamphlets and brochures explaining the process of self-deportation and information about how to enter the country legally and how to gain citizenship. They could smile and be friendly and the whole encounter could be very pleasant. In a perfect world.

But again, let’s be honest. Do you really believe that those “innocent, hard-working, undocumented” neighbors of yours don’t know their citizenship status? They know. And they choose to stay despite knowing they don’t have the legal status to remain. And those truly innocent children who may not know or understand? Who put them in that situation? Their parents did. And those murderers and rapists and drug dealers and sex traffickers who entered through the last administration’s wide open borders? Should we politely knock on their doors and ask them nicely to leave? How effective would that be?

So, let’s be honest. ICE agents dress for the job they’re doing. It’s a dangerous one. And that’s without even considering the stupid, liberal American citizens who are throwing things at them, shooting at them, using vehicles to block them in, and setting fire to the federal buildings they work in. And they wear masks to hide their identities from the Liberals who would gleefully dox them in a minute and endanger their families and their children from the crazy Leftists who still daily advocate violence.

I’m a Christian and I do have compassion for people. And I do believe there are some people who are actually legitimately seeking asylum and trying to escape oppression in their home countries. (And there is a legal process for those people that must be followed.) But those non-citizens are not the priority for ICE. And the Libs know that. But let’s be honest. The reality is, it’s an ugly situation created by the policies of the Liberal Left, and it will take an ugly process to fix the problem. And one of the main reasons the process is so ugly, is that law enforcement is under attack by the very citizens they are trying to protect.

Every day, I see videos online of ICE agents in physical confrontations with protesters. Liberals are appalled! Conservatives are laughing hysterically. FAFO. (I’m not really a big fan of that expression, because of the vulgarity, but the concept is sound.) Again, these are law enforcement agents! How many of those same Liberals would attack a police officer who was in the middle of trying to stop a robbery or rape or murder? Or actively get between the officer and the suspect? And if they did, why would anyone be surprised if the officer forcibly got that idiot out of the way as quickly as possible? 

Let’s be honest. Illegal aliens, undocumented, whatever you want to call them. They are violating the laws of the country. And honestly, you can’t have a country without laws or without borders. It just doesn’t work that way.