In order to fully understand what is going on today with ICE, (Immigration & Customs Enforcement), especially in the context of Minneapolis, you need to hearken back to the Biden administration, specifically their lack of border control.  As millions, (14 million according to the Pew Institute) streamed across our southern borders during the last administration, hundreds of thousands were dangerous criminal felons; murders, child molesters, rapists, gang members and violent, anti-social people that should have been in prison.

Today, approximately 1.5 million illegals have Final Removal or Deportation orders and yet remain in the country.  Over 660,000 are either convicted felons or have pending criminal charges.  Within this group are some 13,000 CONVICTED MURDERERS and 15,800 CONVICTED SEX PREDATORS.  Not suspected, or charged or on trial, but adjudicated and convicted.  These people belong in prison.  Please, someone on the Left, stand up and explain to the rest of us the justification of protecting murders and rapists?  When you create a so-called “Sanctuary State or City”, who exactly do you think you are going to attract?  States and cities defined as “sanctuaries” should lose all federal funding.  Elected officials creating them should be criminally charged as co-defendant in the result of murders and violent acts perpetrated in their jurisdictions by these illegals invited to be safe in their communities.  Victims should have a legal recourse against those elected officials breaking federal law.

If we are to actually call ourselves “a nation of laws”, then enforcing them is part of the process.  If you are flummoxed by the apparent disconnect those on the Left have with these seemingly clear-cut and rational explanations of legal enforcement, here is where their self-proclaimed but misguided “righteous indignation” comes from and how it today comes into play.

Many white Leftists hate themselves.  This self-loathing is attached to the premise that the original sin of slavery and the way we treated the American Indian so significantly stains our founding legacy that anything we do before and without addressing that sin, that unforgivable foundation on which we exist, is unjust because it builds upon the fatally flawed condition without any redress.  The whiteness of their skin just reminds them of the sins of their ancestors and reinforces the awfulness of their shamed lineage.  They can’t stand themselves because they can’t stand who they came from.  Their dilemma turns dangerously towards delusion and insanity as they struggle to somehow make amends.  They rationalize open borders and sanctuary spaces as ways in which they can pay their penance for being who they are and denying their evil forefathers.  They seek a divorce from their legacy and this kind of acting out relieves them of the sin of their “white guilt”.  Screaming at the police, protesting and perhaps even getting arrested promotes their “street-cred” and makes for bragging rights at the ladies Wine Nite get-together.

A quick history lesson would be in order.  The USA led the world in addressing the evils of slavery and eradicated it over 100 years ago.  The American Indians were indeed poorly treated and we have been making amends for that ever since and continue to do so.  There is no history of any nation or tribe or people that doesn’t include war, plunder and unjustified death.  We all did terrible things to each other and from those awful histories we have observed, learned and evolved, all of mankind.  Some have learned faster than others.  All humans and regions and nations throughout the world took eons in order to become civilized and the United States was no exception however, we were the exception when it came to leading the way in that civilization process.  Today, our nation is about to have its 250^th birthday, still intact and still civilizing.  We strive today to make ourselves better people, our nation more strong and righteous and the world a better place.  We are happy to share our democracy and our way of live with whoever is interested, but we do it in a lawful and organized way.

We are indeed a nation of laws and we need to vigorously enforce them if we are to maintain our country.  Liberals need to wrap their heads around the fact that yes, we made mistakes, but we strive to do better, we are a nation of compassionate people trying to constantly evolve to the next higher level of civility.  There is no going back, we need to look forward and up not back and down.  We won’t do that until we embrace one another and make that advancement our common goal, within the framework of the Constitution and the well defined laws that have flowed from that document.

  To those on the Left, we are not the awful people you think we are.  We want all of the things you want, peace, happiness, security, safety, healthy children, and we can all begin to work together to increase all of those things by humbling ourselves, renewing our relationship with God Almighty and continue to make America the greatest nation on God’s earth.  . “Through one’s tears for the past, one’s future becomes blurred.”Criss Jami

Protecting criminals won’t absolve you from your own self-loathing but God will, if you embrace Him.