OPINION:
Politicians are using words dating back to the 1930s — Nazi, Gestapo, storm troopers — to describe today’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who are doing their jobs and locating and deporting criminal illegal aliens. These same politicians say ICE is destroying democracy.
The buffoons trumpeting these hateful words are governors, mayors and state legislators who are attempting to cover up their own failures over decades. They have allowed our cities to become Third World havens for crime in the name of sanctuary protection for illegals. Meanwhile, legal citizens trapped in these cities are victims of murder, and leaders deflect blame.
Readers can decide which political party is responsible for this tragedy. Suffice to say, it isn’t the Republicans pandering for illegal votes in order to retain power.
Major media outlets are co-conspirators, refusing to speak truth to the public. Instead, alternative media does their job for them, conducting man-on-the street interviews of citizens essentially held hostage in their own neighborhoods. Illegal gun violence equals murder, and many innocents end up in the morgue.
ICE agents encounter people of all races and creeds — Black, brown and White — fist-bumping them on the streets, expressing their heartfelt thanks.
As this tragedy unfolds, legal residents appear at local council meetings protesting their plight. Their words fall on deaf ears. Local police are told by city leaders to “stand down,” not to cooperate with ICE agents. Who are the real Nazis here? Not ICE.
JEFFREY H. RICE
Rock Island, Illinois
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