OPINION:
Mass immigration created this nation’s greatest political challenge. Distracted by side issues, conservatives sometimes get frustrated with the White House, but deputy policy chief Stephen Miller explained the need to stay focused on what matters most. He described what major cities might look like if existing federal laws were fully enforced.
“You’d be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problem,” Mr. Miller said. “Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who have special needs would have all the attention that they needed. There would be no violent transnational gangs. There would be no cartels. … You would be living in a city that would be safe. It would be clean.”
Consider what Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials uncovered after they descended on a pair of massive marijuana growing operations along California’s central coast last week, resulting in the capture of 361 illegal aliens.
Among the collared criminals was a man arrested in the past on charges of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation. That’s concerning, because the farm had 14 minors being used for cheap labor, which ICE deemed likely “exploitation, violations of child labor laws and, potentially, human trafficking or smuggling situation.”
Although the Golden State has decriminalized reefer, the federal government has not. The cities of Camarillo and Carpinteria each banned commercial pot fields. Yet Democrats who love nothing more than enacting laws to restrict the rights of citizens have no qualms about allowing illegal aliens to flout all rules.
Instead of being angry about the apparent violations of municipal codes, state labor regulations and federal statutes, not to mention possible child endangerment, California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed the lawbreakers. “This is sick,” he wrote on X, referring to the raid.
At least he didn’t condone the violence. A rabble of organized partisans showed up to support the weed growers and harass the ICE agents by hurling rocks at their vehicles as they departed. Donald Trump was infuriated.
“I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these slimeballs, using whatever means is necessary to do so,” the president wrote in a statement on Truth Social.
Such attacks have become so common that immigration enforcers fear leftists will publish their identities and target them outside work. “They’re wearing face masks because the Democrats continue to take the sides of the criminals and put our ICE officers in danger,” ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan said on Fox News.
Sen. Alex Padilla, the California Democrat best known for being forcibly restrained while interrupting an ICE press conference, intends to author legislation to prohibit federal officers from wearing masks. That’s rich coming from a man who once proclaimed, “Reminder that wearing a mask saves lives” when he thought porous fabric prevented transmission of a microscopic virus.
Fortunately, ICE agents will soon be equipped with more than pieces of cloth. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now law, provides $30 billion to hire 10,000 agents. Their goal will be to restore 1 million intruders annually to their rightful homes.
That will go a long way toward reducing hospital wait times and restoring law and order to America’s streets.
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