When politicians become the enemy

OPINION:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called out the White House for threatening to arrest Democrat lawmakers who were involved in a chaotic protest against federal immigration officials at a detention center in New Jersey.

Exactly! Who does this White House think it is? Doesn’t the president know only Democrats are allowed to arrest Republicans — not the other way around? 

“It’s a red line,” Jeffries told reporters, the Hill wrote.

“They know better than to go down that road,” Jeffries said.

“There are clear lines that they just dare not cross,” Jeffries said.

Maybe. 

Maybe not.

“New Jersey Mayor Ray Baraka arrested at ICE facility,” Politico reported a few days ago. The story went on: “The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, was handcuffed and detained by federal officials on Friday at a protest of an immigration detention center following a scrum involving federal agents and three members of Congress seeking a tour of the facility. The arrest followed a chaotic scene in the detention facility’s parking lot involving protesters, federal law enforcement officers and the three Democratic members — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Melendez and LaMonica McIver — at Delaney Hall.”

It’s bad enough when Democrats encourage their sheep to break the law — to enter the country illegally; to stand outside Supreme Court justices’ homes and scream nonsense; to block roads and block traffic and block hard-working Americans from commuting to their jobs; to set up armed and patrolled areas in cities, call them CHAZ zones, and then keep out citizens from their homes and business owners from from their business, all in the name of First  Amendment freedoms; et cetera. Now we have to put up with Democrat lawmakers physically joining the ranks of lawbreakers?

Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin told CNN the trio assaulted their agents, “including body-slamming a female ICE officer.” And for that, it’s “definitely on the table” to arrest them, DHS also said.

Meanwhile, Rep. Buddy Carter, Georgia Republican, said it’s possible the three may be sanctioned and stripped of their committee assignments.

Democrats hate it when the law is equally applied to them.

So Jeffries is pulling out the Constitution, combing it for catchy-sounding phrases that are easy enough for the ignorant masses who vote Democrat to remember and chant — it’s the “oversight powers of Congress,” he’s settled on apparently. And he’s puffing up his chest and proclaiming about the principles of the thing, the principles of the matter — which, as we all know, is what Democrats do when they want to distract from a very unprincipled affair.

“We’re not going to be intimidated by their tactics to try to force principled opposition from not standing up to their extremism,” Jeffries said. He’s defending principled violence against border control extremism. He’s hoping you don’t notice.

All that’s needed now is David Hogg to make the media rounds with a few f-bombs and bam, the circle will be complete.

File this under Democrats Detest America.

The leftists who’ve infiltrated and corrupted the once-sane Democrat Party have taken their anti-Americanism to a new level. Protesting and physically assaulting immigration agents who are simply carrying out their duties to protect America’s borders and secure citizens’ safety is not just an odd stance for a duly elected politician to take. It’s what enemies of America do. It’s how enemies of American citizens behave.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.