It has been disconcerting to watch Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey go out of their way to defend not only the violent actions of illegal aliens residing in their state but also the criminal behavior of citizens who endanger the lives of law enforcement officers and everyone around them by obstructing necessary arrests.
The Department of Homeland Security has been spectacularly transparent about the targets of its operations in the North Star State. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are going after vile human beings who should not be walking freely on American streets. Men accused or convicted of murder, child rape, and other horrific violence have fled their home countries and now call Minnesota (and other “sanctuary” jurisdictions) home.
If they were white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants — or could otherwise be quickly dismissed by prominent news personalities as just “privileged white boys” — nobody would be defending these scumbags. Because Walz, Frey, and the propaganda press describe them as part of the “immigrant community,” middle-aged Minnesota women are willing to risk their lives to keep men who rape and murder women and children from being detained. The whole scene is sad, disturbing, and discouraging.
To be sure, what’s unfolding in Minnesota and other Democrat-controlled cities and states in response to President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s immigration enforcement operations has many moving parts. Information warfare is a permanent component of the modern battlespace. When almost every person on the planet has a pocket computer that also makes phone calls and social media sites are constantly pinging those pockets with targeted news stories, bits of information behave like bullets directed to shape or destroy the minds of those in the crosshairs.
Foreign and domestic billionaires, multinational investment firms, and local Chamber of Commerce chapters have real financial interests in influencing American mindsets regarding the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. Among other economic and cultural motivations of the Big Business community, endless supplies of cheap labor help to drive profits while simultaneously preventing the American middle class from ever prospering robustly enough to compete on its own terms. While business firms economically benefit from downward pressure on employee wages, they also economically benefit from the growing supply of illegal alien customers.
When millions of people enter the United States illegally, the increased demand they create for food, fuel, housing, and other commercial goods drives up prices. Because illegal aliens disproportionately depend upon local, state, and federal welfare programs to survive, all levels of the American government directly subsidize these price increases. American taxpayers, in other words, pay for welfare that contributes to inflation which, in turn, decreases Americans’ disposable income (income that is kept artificially lower due to competition from illegal immigrant employees).
Public schools, hospitals, and other social welfare institutions are also forced to spend substantial percentages of their allotted taxpayer funds on services for people illegally residing in the United States. The end result is this: Big Business profits from illegal aliens while offloading the financial and social costs onto Americans already struggling.
Foreign militaries and espionage agencies have real strategic interests in causing deadly mayhem in American cities and enough social upheaval to weaken the influence of federal authorities. Just as the U.S. military and America’s Intelligence Community have been justifiably accused of fomenting “color revolutions” abroad, foreign powers habitually work to undermine the social stability, legitimacy, and peace of the United States. It is no surprise that so many anti-ICE groups operating in Minnesota today receive operational funds from non-governmental organizations and “charities” whose funding appears to originate with foreign financiers with direct links to adversarial governments such as China.
The Democrat Party — as the political party technically out of power in Congress and the White House (although realistically still exercising vast power through its agents operating within the permanent bureaucracy) — has real political interests in undermining both President Trump and a MAGA agenda that threatens Democrats’ priorities.
Among those priorities, Democrat politicians benefit from intentional disregard for federal immigration laws and the importation of new “voters” who often come from third-world countries whose leftist and even communist policies align much more closely with the Democrat Party in the United States. As we have begun to see with the multi-billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota (just the tip of a much larger fraud-iceberg that has steadily grown in Democrat jurisdictions across the country), when criminal illegal aliens and criminal politicians conspire together to launder taxpayer money into their own pockets, politicians, illegal aliens, and other fraudsters have much to gain both politically (in terms of ill-gotten votes) and financially (in terms of ill-gotten dollars).
So there are many external players quietly operating behind the scenes of chaos in Minnesota. While the propaganda press pushes hysterical narratives meant to portray ICE agents as “Trump’s Gestapo,” leftist activist-obstructionists as just “caring moms,” and despicable, murderous pedophiles from faraway foreign nations as just ordinary “Minnesota men,” the true story involves a range of economic, geopolitical, subversive, and criminal interests that all benefit from open borders and endless illegal immigration.
One part of this story that has gotten little attention is how Minnesota’s intentional disregard for federal immigration law is the mirror opposite of former Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to enforce immigration laws in her state during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Sixteen years ago, Arizona’s Republican governor was earnestly working to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into her state. She signed into law a statute that authorized state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws. The Obama administration joined sides with “open borders” special interests to challenge Arizona’s sovereign authority to enforce the federal government’s immigration laws.
Eventually, the case made it to the Supreme Court, and Justices Kennedy and Roberts joined their politically left-leaning colleagues in holding that federal immigration authority preempted Arizona from establishing any immigration rules of its own. President Obama’s solicitor general, Don Verrilli, argued that “states are trying to supplant the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy, and we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.”
Governor Brewer tried to defend her state and the country from drug cartels, sex slavers, and other criminal organizations that use America’s open borders to import harm and misery. President Obama and the Democrat Party (and many Establishment Republicans, as well) had vested interests in keeping America’s borders open and went to great lengths to make sure that Arizona authorities could not enforce federal immigration law when the federal government was actively subverting those laws.
Now we have Governor Walz and Mayor Frey actively subverting federal immigration law, and a loud contingent of activist judges, obstructionist politicians, and intentionally misleading members of the propaganda press pretend that Minnesota can do what Arizona could not: establish its own immigration rules. Fifteen years ago, the Obama team argued that “we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.” Today, Obama’s friends act as if Minnesota can do whatever it wants — the consequences to federal authority and national sovereignty be damned.
Either the federal government exercises authority over immigration enforcement or the state of Minnesota does. We either have a country, or we don’t.
Hat tip to Old Gyrene. Oorah!
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