OPINION:
A bunch of street thugs and liberal White women and 1960s leftovers looking for a cause, all hanging around Minneapolis and masquerading as First Amendment freedom fighters, have banded together and built up barricades and blockades in the southern side of the city to keep out ICE agents and law enforcement — and they’re even reportedly checking IDs and running license plates.
Oh, the irony.
Protesters are protesting the very Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents whose primary purpose is to enforce border controls and remove illegal immigrants — by setting up borders to keep out these agents.
Borders work after all, it seems.
A video posted by Minneapolis Spring shows a community-established blockade and vehicle check, beneath this text: “Community defenders stop an out of state vehicle at the filter blockade, run the plate through a database, and confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors before letting it through.”
Abductors equals ICE.
Another video posted on YouTube by KARE 11, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, titled “Some groups in Minneapolis are building road blockades to resist ICE” shows similarly. The journalist says, “We are currently in the Southside of Minneapolis where I want to show you a new form of resistance against ICE. … There are these road blockades — this is at least the fourth one in just a one-mile radius I’ve seen. I talked to one of the demonstrators here, and they said it’s about more than resistance. It’s about bonding with your neighbors.”
Bonding over breaking the law.
Bonding over mayhem.
KARE 11’s journalist continues: “They also have flyers they are issuing out that call for 10, 100 and 1,000 blockades. This is really a response to ICE’s rapid grab-and-go methods where they’re trying to move as quickly as they can through city streets.”
So protesters are trying to stop ICE from doing so — they’re trying to prevent ICE agents from doing their jobs.
And they’re trying to stop ICE agents from doing their jobs by carrying out the same sort of operations ICE agents do. Oh, the irony.
It’d be humorous except for the fact these protesters are lawless obstructionists who see violence as an acceptable end so long as it accomplishes their means — which, again, ironically, is to keep America’s borders wide open and halt President Trump’s long-promised law and order agenda.
• 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.
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