Ever wonder why people are only being shot by ICE in Minneapolis ? Do you think the leaders of the state share the blame ? Do you think that if the state leaders would cooperate with ICE , things would be done much more peacefully ? People say...But they didn't commit any crime. Entering the country illegally is crime enough to be arrested and deported.
Joseph Backholm
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Sadly, someone else has died in a confrontation with ICE. Here's my current thoughts on all things ICE and ICE protestors.
1. I'm not the internet sleuth others are, so I haven't watched every angle of every video of the most recent shooting. I'm open to the possibility that ICE did something wrong, and I'm open to the possibility they behaved reasonably under the circumstances. I just don't know, and I also don't think my opinion matters much on that subject. But there are some things I think I do know.
2. It is VERY easy to NOT be killed by ICE. Millions of Minnesotans have managed to pull that off. In fact, 99.999999999999% of people who have participated in a protest of ICE have managed to stay alive. Why? Because they did not confront ICE with a gun or a vehicle. Everyone knows ICE isn't out there looking to shoot random Minnesotans, so if you're a random Minnesotan looking to be shot by ICE, you gotta work at it. Please don’t.
3. Today's leftists are the younger sibling who, on long car rides, would poke you relentlessly until you finally react then scream bloody murder that, “Billy hit me!!!!!” I recognize this instinct because I am the youngest sibling. I have done it. In any context, it is unrealistic to relentlessly pester people, then play the victim when you finally get what you're looking for--a reaction.
4. ICE is saving lives. Just a few days ago, we learned of record-breaking decreases in violent crimes (20% or more year over year), and earlier this month, we saw a record decline in fentanyl deaths. This is not random. We saw big increases in crime and drug deaths during the Biden years when the border was effectively non-existent. Now we are seeing sharp declines as the bad guys and drugs are being removed. While every trend is multi-variant, this surprises no one.
5. The fact that good things happen when we remove bad people from the streets does not justify bad behavior to remove them. People still have rights even when they’re criminals. So, it’s good to have people ensuring we abide by our national values as we clean up problems. We won’t do that perfectly, but we shouldn’t fall into the trap of claiming emergency circumstances allow us to abandon commitment to fundamental rights. Remember COVID?
6. “It’s the tactics!” People critical of ICE assure us that they want the laws enforced, but it’s the tactics they object to. They acknowledge that Obama deported millions of people, too, but believe Obama did it gently while Trump operates like the Gestapo. The problem with this argument is that no one is complaining about tactics in places where local authorities are cooperating rather than obstructing. Obama-level cooperation seems to beget Obama-level tactics.
7. The Rage Merchants don’t want you to believe anything good can come from the current effort to remove dangerous people from the country. Why? Because if you were aware of the benefits, even while you’re concerned about the tactics, you might feel less rage, and they can’t have that. The midterms are coming, the midterms are coming.
8. Why is Minnesota the only place where people are dying? That’s not the only state ICE is operating in. There are other blue states where local authorities dislike the Orange Man, but no one is dying in confrontations with ICE. Is that because the ICE agents working in Minnesota are especially blood thirsty, or is that because the people there are behaving in a particularly aggressive and antagonistic way? Intellectual honesty requires us to consider both options, but one seems like a better explanation than the other to me.
9. I really dislike where this is going. Keith Olbermann has encouraged Gov. Walz to use his National Guard to arrest ICE agents. I know, it's Keith Olbermann, but I think he speaks for more people than we realize. I worry that violence is looking reasonable for more and more people every day because we refuse to acknowledge the merits of arguments we disagree with. As a result, we increasingly see our neighbors as enemies rather than people who have a good point that we should work with to solve a problem.
Snpterosdotc16ugf5ea53 ea17 tmd4a4ra9Yg m001M9:uta241gs0Aygt ·
Sadly, someone else has died in a confrontation with ICE. Here's my current thoughts on all things ICE and ICE protestors.
1. I'm not the internet sleuth others are, so I haven't watched every angle of every video of the most recent shooting. I'm open to the possibility that ICE did something wrong, and I'm open to the possibility they behaved reasonably under the circumstances. I just don't know, and I also don't think my opinion matters much on that subject. But there are some things I think I do know.
2. It is VERY easy to NOT be killed by ICE. Millions of Minnesotans have managed to pull that off. In fact, 99.999999999999% of people who have participated in a protest of ICE have managed to stay alive. Why? Because they did not confront ICE with a gun or a vehicle. Everyone knows ICE isn't out there looking to shoot random Minnesotans, so if you're a random Minnesotan looking to be shot by ICE, you gotta work at it. Please don’t.
3. Today's leftists are the younger sibling who, on long car rides, would poke you relentlessly until you finally react then scream bloody murder that, “Billy hit me!!!!!” I recognize this instinct because I am the youngest sibling. I have done it. In any context, it is unrealistic to relentlessly pester people, then play the victim when you finally get what you're looking for--a reaction.
4. ICE is saving lives. Just a few days ago, we learned of record-breaking decreases in violent crimes (20% or more year over year), and earlier this month, we saw a record decline in fentanyl deaths. This is not random. We saw big increases in crime and drug deaths during the Biden years when the border was effectively non-existent. Now we are seeing sharp declines as the bad guys and drugs are being removed. While every trend is multi-variant, this surprises no one.
5. The fact that good things happen when we remove bad people from the streets does not justify bad behavior to remove them. People still have rights even when they’re criminals. So, it’s good to have people ensuring we abide by our national values as we clean up problems. We won’t do that perfectly, but we shouldn’t fall into the trap of claiming emergency circumstances allow us to abandon commitment to fundamental rights. Remember COVID?
6. “It’s the tactics!” People critical of ICE assure us that they want the laws enforced, but it’s the tactics they object to. They acknowledge that Obama deported millions of people, too, but believe Obama did it gently while Trump operates like the Gestapo. The problem with this argument is that no one is complaining about tactics in places where local authorities are cooperating rather than obstructing. Obama-level cooperation seems to beget Obama-level tactics.
7. The Rage Merchants don’t want you to believe anything good can come from the current effort to remove dangerous people from the country. Why? Because if you were aware of the benefits, even while you’re concerned about the tactics, you might feel less rage, and they can’t have that. The midterms are coming, the midterms are coming.
8. Why is Minnesota the only place where people are dying? That’s not the only state ICE is operating in. There are other blue states where local authorities dislike the Orange Man, but no one is dying in confrontations with ICE. Is that because the ICE agents working in Minnesota are especially blood thirsty, or is that because the people there are behaving in a particularly aggressive and antagonistic way? Intellectual honesty requires us to consider both options, but one seems like a better explanation than the other to me.
9. I really dislike where this is going. Keith Olbermann has encouraged Gov. Walz to use his National Guard to arrest ICE agents. I know, it's Keith Olbermann, but I think he speaks for more people than we realize. I worry that violence is looking reasonable for more and more people every day because we refuse to acknowledge the merits of arguments we disagree with. As a result, we increasingly see our neighbors as enemies rather than people who have a good point that we should work with to solve a problem.
Dale Haven Cox
