We have ICE agents all over Florida grabbing criminal illegal aliens with no interference from protesters. They get in and get out. It helps that they are supported by local police. It’s possible for ICE to do its job when citizens want criminals off the street. Minneapolis just wants the grift to continue. I don’t feel sorry for them because they created the chaos.
I feel sorry for the *minority* of Minnesotans who have to contend with $10 Billion + in fraud and death threats against Nick Shirley but that has been memory holed. The majority of MN voted for this in fraud free elections?
Of course. but it is worse I think when one state spends the republic's money foolishly or corruptly. If they spend their own that is deplorable and stupid but not my business, unless it is going to terrorists etc.
Apparently the majority of Minnesotans voted for Tim Walz, and the majority of Minneapolis voters voted for Jacob Frey. The majority voted for leaders who submit to antifa/rioters, and choose to neuter their police forces. I feel bad for the minority who didn’t vote for this but are unable to leave the area.
Hard to say if it was a majority of voters did vote for them. There’s credible evidence of ballot fraud, bloc voting and illegal voting in the ballot factories in Congrewoman Omar’s district that has about 80,000 of her former countrymen. Starting with + 80,000 votes is tough to overcome in an otherwise legal mayoral, governor and congressional race.
The recent Minneapolis mayoral election pitted Frey against a Somali immigrant, Omar Fateh. Fateh’s is in the same clan as Omar, whose original Somali tribe was in conflict with Ilan Omar’s tribe (Omar’s father was a colonel in former Somali dictator Siad Barre of Majeerteen “sub-clan" of Darod clan). Clan rivalries apparently were sufficiently strong to defeat Fateh despite an endorsement from Omar. Suspicious that imho.
It's not just Florida, it's the vast majority of the country, even many blue states. If you look at conflict with ICE, it's entirely concentrated in a few sanctuary cities. Of course this fact is totally ignored by the people who claim that ICE are "Nazis" or "Gestapo".
I read somewhere (should have bookmarked it) that nationally, 65% of hostile interactions between the public and DHS occur in just 9 counties. All are within "sanctuary" declarations. This is a little like that NIH study from a few years ago: "The 1 % of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions".
I'm 20 miles south of Orlando, and I regularly see the staff and editors of the Sentinel bemoaning the fact that illegals are being rounded up, but no one else seems to care
Agreed. But they are grasping at flotsam in the wreckage. They are doomed. It isn't just their lack of honesty or bias, it is structural. The medium is dying and can't be saved. That's been happening for a long time.
And it is part of why they are so biased. They have been bought up and consolidated to the extent that most "papers" and the old TV stations are owned by a few people, and they are mostly leftists.
But you see how bad off they are when you see that Fox - which is not rightwing but centrist - nearly has more market than all the rest combined.
Normally I would agree with you. The worst nightmare for the uniparty - the "establishment" - is for all of the disaffected to get together and realize the real divides are "class" (money) and power.
But in this case not. "Collectivist" might be better but people don't understand that one so much. The problem is "the left" has been infiltrated and taken over by communists, many of them foreign, moneyed by people like Singham and Soros.
We do not want to be "undivided" from them. They are the enemy, as are the feminazis.
It is not nonsensical idiot. It is definitive. Anyone who cannot see that deserves no respect.
Fascism is not right wing. Neither is National Socialism. As in NAZI, the National Socialist German Worker's party...
When you claim otherwise you are kissing Joe Stalin's dead ass. Calling fascism right wing was his invention. Which makes you dumber than a dead commie...
Collectivism is the umbrella for any group or "philosophy" that places the group over the individual. IMO if you subscribe to that you are no longer human - you surrender your humanity to the collective.
Socialism, fascism, communism, theism, progressivism... All the same things with different names. The same ideas and the same tactics.
Americans - real Americans - are individualists. We place the individual over the collective. We only give the collective what we choose to give it as individuals and resist everything else.
That is why we support the American Republic - it is NOT a democracy. It is a guarantee of inalienable individual rights, as in the Bill of Rights. Things that cannot be touched by any ordinary vote.
And that is why the second amendment is the most important amendment. We are ready to use force to protect the Republic and the individuals that it serves. we reserve the right to overthrow - and END - any tyrant that attempts to usurp that.
The amazing thing is that you believe the statements of the dear leader who lies constantly about the arrested immigrants being "rapists & murderers" and the "worst of the worst". ICE BARBIE says, “The individuals that we are going after are those that are violent criminals, those that are breaking our laws and those that have final removal orders.” Of course, the right believes all illegal immigrants are automatically criminals and should be deported, but to make the deportations more palatable, that is NOT what the Trump administration SAYS it is doing.
From Jan. 20, 2025, to Oct. 15, only 37% had any past criminal conviction, 30% had pending charges, and 33% had NO criminal record. Of these, only 7% had a VIOLENT criminal conviction. Many of the other convictions were for minor offenses like traffic violations.
The administration claim that 70% are criminals claim relies on including those with pending charges as “criminals.” In the US, people are “innocent until proven guilty” and many who were charged will miss their day in a U.S. court because they were deported.
Since Miller is pushing for more & more illegal immigrants to be arrested, the percentage that have no criminal background has increased. In Jan 2026, nearly 43% of those detained had NO convictions or charges, up 10% since Oct. 2025.
The libertarian Cato Institute analyzed nonpublic data from ICE leaked to Cato, and found that among those with criminal convictions detained by ICE, 8% were convicted of violent or property crimes (about 5% were violent criminal convictions). Contrary to administration rhetoric about targeting the “worst of the worst” , the director David Bier described the arrests under Trump as “INDISCRIMINATE.”
I think if ICE actually only arrested violent criminals and were transparent about who was arrested, the protests would be much less. That will never happen under Trump.
I have heard the administration say that almost 70% of the deportations were either convicted of a crime or are pending cases. Your stats seem to bear this out. But you know what? None of them should’ve been here. Biden opened our borders indiscriminately without vetting. Neither Clinton nor Obama did that. In fact, Obama deported 3 million of them. No one protested or interfered with ICE. This is all about Trump and interfering with his administration. And according to the Signal chats it is well funded and organized to disrupt our society. So fuck that shit.
Obama & Clinton did not hire armies of goons to use to invade cities and indiscriminately grab black & brown people off the streets. They did not have ICE agents rappel onto a Chicago apt building and use explosives to open doors in a raid that critics called excessive and inhumane. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called for investigation into reports that children were zip tied & several U.S. citizens were held for hours. ICE said they arrested two people with alleged Tren de Aragua street gang connections, along with dozens suspected of violating immigration laws.
In the past, ICE made most of its arrests in partnership with local jails and prisons, quietly taking into custody immigrants who had already been arrested by another law enforcement agency. Arrests at jails and prisons went up in 2025 but the increase was far exceeded by the growth in what ICE calls “at-large” arrests, the apprehensions of immigrants on the streets, in courthouses, and at homes and businesses.
Obama built the cages he put the families in. Not a peep from the media. Not a peep from the left. No riots or protests or whistles or spit coming from the professional agitators towards ICE. You are all hypocrites.
Really glad they got the criminal aliens that they did. Probably would not have happened with Harris in the White House. As you know, it's much more likely she would have increased the number of violent illegals in America's neighborhoods.
Then, there's the issue of over 100,000 unaccompanied migrant children that Noem's DHS have recovered and returned to their families. Lot more work to do there, too.
So, here's the database for the WOWs arrested since last summer. You can look up your own state to see who was arrested and why. Why don't you look it over and then come back and make an argument why they should not have been arrested and why it's good for immigrant neighborhoods to have criminals for neighbors... or, as Walz calls them "our neighbors of color".
Thanks for the link Jeff. I looked at my state & there are 24 pages of pictures of criminals with the pertinent info. Surprised, (but happy)as I’m in the sanctuary state of WA.
The point is that Trump is LYING when he claims that the US is only deporting people convicted on violent crimes and "the worst of the worst." He is also deporting people who have NO criminal history. Not that anybody on the right cares that Trump lies constantly.
So your DHS website displaying the "worst of the worst" has 1688 pages with 12 people/page = 20256 people.
Over the past year, President Donald Trump’s administration has deported about 230,000 people who were arrested INSIDE the country and another 270,000 at the border, an analysis of federal data shows. Another roughly 40,000 people “self-deported.” This equals 540,000 while DHS says 622,000 people had been deported under Trump, although they did not respond to requests for a more detailed breakdown of that figure.
So 20256/622,000 = .032 or 3.2% of the deportees are violent criminals.
If you use the figure of 230,000 people arrested INSIDE the country, that gives:
20256/230000=.088 or 8.8% of deportees are violent criminals.
You did not read my post. I said, "I think if ICE actually only arrested violent criminals and were transparent about who was arrested, the protests would be much less. That will never happen under Trump."
Did you forget that the vile Stephen Miller came up with the "zero tolerance" for children to be separated from the families in Trump's first admin and did NOT EVEN keep track of which children belonged to which families? Miller advocated for the policy as a tool for deterrence, arguing that harsh penalties would discourage illegal immigration.
Trump's chief strategist , the most influential person in his admin, Stephen Miller, who determines who & how people get deported is a white supremacist. He would like to expel all brown & black people from the US, even using "denaturalization." Former Breitbart editor, Katie McHugh, who has since denounced racism, leaked more than 900 emails from 2015-16 to "Hatewatch, in which Miller relays white nationalist conspiracy theories and offer news tips to Breitbart on how to cover immigration and amplify stories about black and Hispanic crime.
The emails have been printed by SPLC and their existence verified by the right wing news organizations NYPost & Fox.
Trump never said that. You're making it up. Trump said he would deport ALL illegal aliens starting with the worst first. That's exactly what he's doing. So far, over 20,000 of the worst. That's great progress.
Are you kidding? Trump literally rants about deporting dangerous criminals, murderers, & rapists, people sent from prisons & mental institutions who are "poisoning the blood of our country" ALL THE TIME at rallies, on truth social. Since it is repeated so frequently, it makes people believe that ALL illegal immigrants are violent criminals and that is who he is deporting. This is what he wants people to believe. The left does not hate black and brown people who fled violence and poverty and have lived & worked here peacefully for decades as the right does.
Are you kidding? I have yet to read any comment from you that isn't a delusion on behalf of whatever Trump slop hits your trough. Not one comment that is reasonable or logical. All are vague platitudes that completely lack evidence to support your claims. "Innocent fisherman" comes to mind.
Illegal entry into our country is a federal crime. Only you and your fellow morons make assumptions that people believe that all illegals are violent. Nobody has suggested that. Apparently, you and your fellow lefties believe that predatory criminal illegal alians should be allowed to freely roam our country without question and that interfering with their removal is heroic.
That might be what you believe, but you're only fooling yourself. The right and the middle believe in immigration law regardless of skin color. The hard left thinks they can pick and choose which laws to follow and uses black and brown people as pawns in their psychodrama.
Even if your stats were true, the “ protesters” wouldn’t care. Most are paid & organized to carry out orders of chaos. The leftists want 100% amnesty. The democrat party wants the votes. They cannot win a fair election & they know it. They’re fighting for the power they see slipping away.
Who exactly paid the thousands of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis on January 23, 2026 in subzero temps to protest ICE actions, with demonstrations continuing in the following days. You just echo your dear leader who likes to make statements like that and also lies non-stop about the 2020 election being "stolen."
Nguyen Ngoc Loan was a South Vietnamese general. The man shot was a Vietcong member, not wearing a uniform in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Battle field execution was warranted. It was not a war crime, but was presented as such by US media. Still misunderstood incident to this day.
Not only was he in violation of the Geneva Conventions, but Lem had been committing major war crimes himself. It's an excellent example of how people can be easily misled by first impressions. Very few people know about the full backstory:
"In the morning of the second day of Tet, January 31st, 1968, when general Nguyen Ngoc Loan was leading a fierce fight near An Quang Pagoda in Saigon’s Chinese quarter, two of his officers brought to him a communist cadre who had murdered many innocents in cold-blood in the past couple days. He was Captain Nguyen Van Lem, alias Bay Lop.
Minutes before he was captured, Bay Lop had killed a RVN policeman’s wife and all of his family members including his children. Around 4:30 A.M., Nguyen Van Lem led a sabotage unit along with Viet Cong tanks to attack the Armor Camp in Go Vap. After communist troops took control of the base, Bay Lop arrested Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Tuan with his family and forced him to show them how to drive tanks. When Lieutenant Colonel Tuan refused to cooperate, Bay Lop killed all members of his family including his 80-year-old mother. There was only one survivor, a seriously injured 10-year-old boy."
Wonder how anyone can view what happened in November 24 when lame duck autopen launched mid range missiles inside Russia— followed 7 months later June 25 from deep STATE assisted droning inside Russia.
Followed by Soros and his ilk along with NGO’s funded “mostly peaceful” protests. Either will do WW3 or USA Civil War for the deep STATE and its allies. Somehow these treasonous acts must stop and those responsible must face consequences
Thank you for this additional background. The MSM is fully in thrall to leftist/communist/globalist propaganda and is expert at wielding images to distract the audience and reinforce the “narrative”.
This is why I prefer to READ most news, gathered from multiple sources. We rarely watch TV news.
And these were the stories that Dan Rather and his ilk used to demonized Americans. Even Uncle Walter Cronkite was a leftist puppet of propaganda. He never outwardly showed his leftist bias.
It was summary justice. The man being shot had the blood of dozens on his hands. War is brutal like that, which is why it should be avoided when possible.
The shooter wasn’t US military or he probably would have been. At the same time the communists were going into villages and murdering the villagers and their children to get their cooperation.
The war was as mishandled as a military campaign can be. For one example, during the Johnson years Washington was informing the Russian embassy of the location and time of upcoming air strikes so they could evacuate any Russian personnel.
In Vietnam we allowed the press free rein and they reported pretty much anything they wanted, while the communists tightly controlled their news. As a result the news of VC and NVA war crimes were pretty much never aired in the West.
Given that a week or so prior to his death, Pretti had attempted to stop an arrest by screaming at agents, spitting at/on them, and kicking out the taillight of their vehicle--apparently while armed--it is "pretty" clear that he was looking for a violent, suicidal confrontation with law enforcement. He got his wish a few days later.
The failure was not that he was shot--agents have the right to defend themselves from violent assaults-- but that he was not arrested after the first violent incident. Had that occurred, he likely would be alive today.
That the Feds have been accused of being too harsh may be one reason they didn’t arrest him. Also they could have been distracted by another insurgent. On the whole the Feds have shown amazing restraint considering all the abuse heaped on them.
Agree 1000% that the real story is not that the feds shot two "protesters" in Minneapolis, it is that they did not shoot many more, given the many provocations aimed at getting them to react/overreact.
Yes, ICE was not ready for mass detentions of violent agitators. But it was the refusal of Walz and Frey to bring in the Minneapolis police and Minn National Guard to arrest these offenders that is the real problem here. It's almost as if Walz and Frey wanted these violent encounters between ICE and the "protesters."
This is how irony and karma work together. "Don't believe your eyes!" the senator raged. Possibly one of the finest self-punkings ever seen in our sacred halls of democracy.
Six-foot photographs of AI fakes memorialized as fact in the Congressional Record before the toast has even popped from the toaster.... It's 2020 all over again. The Color Revolution just never ceases.... Time to ask ourselves some questions:
Half the country thinks Rittenhouse shot 3 black demonstrators. They were all white felons who were trying to kill him. The two that died were an exceptionally nasty variety. Sexual abuse of a small child and wife beating.
I have not heard one dem reject any of the ill-liberal, anti-science, anti-fact, anti-American, anti-law propaganda that we all have seen, heard and experienced over the last ten years. None of it. Fetterman being the single exception tells me that all dems, except one, are complict in our current situation.
Other than FORMER Democrats like Sasha, I can think of Henry Cuellar, Harold Ford, Fetterman, yes, and . . . and I can count them with one hand at this point. Which is sad. Decades ago, I used to split my ballot and vote for a Democrat or two just about every election. There were a lot of Democrats I respected.
RFKjr, Sinema. Dean Philips has remained with the party that shit on his presidential aspirations. He actually recieved votes in the dem primaries, but so what. Cuellar as well even after being pardoned by Trump after his party attempted lawfare against him for his border complaints.
Dems have gotten so far away from reality on behalf of TDS, that I can't even imagine who can save them from themselves. All of their antics and those that obediently complied will not be memory holed, no matter how hard they try.
There is no reality anymore other than what we "perceive" to experience personally. The ability to "fake" anything is only going to get better. Combine the ultimate propaganda tool with the corporate media megaphones and the public and private money funding pressure groups, it's gonna get ugly. Not sure there is a solution other than teaching people how to think and act rationally. Is that even possible anymore?
Your comment reminds me of a story my spouse (a St. Louis Cardinals fan) told me about listening to Harry Caray play call on the radio. “It might be, it could be! The shortstop has it . . .”
I had a friend who was special forces in Viet Nam. He personally did deep fakes back then and said he never believed a single photo he saw after that. This was 55 years ago.
What we face is multi-faceted. It arrives daily at us with the usual misleading persuasions of traditional media, digital media. There are attention grabbing social media campaigns. There are others with crowd funding which amount to psychological operations. It is a kind of battle without soldiers in uniforms or guns. Everyone participates passively or actively. We exist within permanent conflict, a battle for our minds. But none of it changes the morality of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood.
Recent example on X. There were several postings of a list of 192 R’s that supposedly recently voted for continuing funding of welfare benefits for refugees. Fake - the list was actually from July 2021. Then 192 GOP did vote for a visa immigration measure for Afghan refugees. A bad move in 2021 but unethical for it to used by so called conservative influencers this week. Sowing division is their game.
Remember, the human mind has been dumbed down for generations via a variety of methods that continue to this day. Can anyone identify who or what controls “the system?” When “the system” has all of the power and money ever wanted, what’s left for them to control? I have yet to read about the true ID of the system and until then, we’re just taking shots in the dark.
Not in the public schools, I fear. Teachers are among the worst (joined by nurses!) offenders on social media championing transgenderism, draconian medical policies (get your vax or ELSE), and weepy or violent screeds against ICE, Trump and various conservative figures.
Besides a total and scrupulous avoidance of self awareness, the Democrats’ greatest flaw is that they believe their own bullsh*t. Whether it’s “hands up don’t shoot,” or Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, or Hunter Biden’s laptop is a Russian plant, it’s easier to believe the provable lie than admit they’re on the wrong.
Now it turns out that 11 days prior to the shooting, this guy charged at ICE officers shrieking and spitting and kicked out a tail light on their vehicle. Even his family had to admit that. So he was a pistol-packing rage machine that they'd had a previous run in with. The fact that he was still walking around after it shows tremendous restraint on their part.
I've two nephews who are police officers in a big blue east coast metro, and I can see them making the exact same call in a similar situation. As they say, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
Minnesota protesters pretends to care about protecting illegal immigrants and conviently ignore the fact that ICE is targeting criminal illegals. Fourteen States have seen more deportations than Minnesota including the blue sanctuary states of California and New York. No riots in those states. Why? The answer is because Minnesota is a crime scene and the protests are being pushed as a distraction from the massive fraud used to buy the political support of an immigrant population both legal and illegal. The grift is massive and embedded in the political machine and police hierarchy. The national politicians who have jumped on the bandwagon with misleading narratives and AI fakes are either useful idiots or suffering from lack of integrity due to extreme TDS, or both. The fight to reestablish the original principals of our Republic is far from over.
It used to be that most/all of the daily news corps prided themselves on providing "accurate" information....that motto has now been subverted and changed to keep up with the hyper stylized 24hr news cycle to now be "be the first" to report it and consequences be damned, we can always put out a "correction" in small print later.
This of course leads back to the famous quote I believe from Mark Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
You are too kind, Sasha. Dick Durbin didn't "fall" for this - he took the opportunity to exploit it. He has consistently been thoroughly mendacious, with only Schumer being his corrupt peer. Both soullessly lie because they know legions of clueless, gullible people (AKA liberals) will believe them. It's wonderful that Durbin is retiring. While I'm sure the liberal that replaces him will constantly lie as well, it will take them a while to rise to Durbin's level of proficiency.
We have ICE agents all over Florida grabbing criminal illegal aliens with no interference from protesters. They get in and get out. It helps that they are supported by local police. It’s possible for ICE to do its job when citizens want criminals off the street. Minneapolis just wants the grift to continue. I don’t feel sorry for them because they created the chaos.
I feel bad for the majority of Minnesota that has to live with the crazies.
I feel sorry for the *minority* of Minnesotans that didn't vote for the crazies.
I feel sorry for the *minority* of Minnesotans who have to contend with $10 Billion + in fraud and death threats against Nick Shirley but that has been memory holed. The majority of MN voted for this in fraud free elections?
Let’s hope Minnesotans don’t fall for Klobuchar...
They most certainly will.
All tax paying Americans paid for most of this fraud. It was Federal money. Our taxes at work!
Do any of you get it that the money was mostly federal?
Fed money comes from tax payers, right?
Of course. but it is worse I think when one state spends the republic's money foolishly or corruptly. If they spend their own that is deplorable and stupid but not my business, unless it is going to terrorists etc.
This
Apparently the majority of Minnesotans voted for Tim Walz, and the majority of Minneapolis voters voted for Jacob Frey. The majority voted for leaders who submit to antifa/rioters, and choose to neuter their police forces. I feel bad for the minority who didn’t vote for this but are unable to leave the area.
Hard to say if it was a majority of voters did vote for them. There’s credible evidence of ballot fraud, bloc voting and illegal voting in the ballot factories in Congrewoman Omar’s district that has about 80,000 of her former countrymen. Starting with + 80,000 votes is tough to overcome in an otherwise legal mayoral, governor and congressional race.
The recent Minneapolis mayoral election pitted Frey against a Somali immigrant, Omar Fateh. Fateh’s is in the same clan as Omar, whose original Somali tribe was in conflict with Ilan Omar’s tribe (Omar’s father was a colonel in former Somali dictator Siad Barre of Majeerteen “sub-clan" of Darod clan). Clan rivalries apparently were sufficiently strong to defeat Fateh despite an endorsement from Omar. Suspicious that imho.
The minority can take up arms. Eventually they will.
It's not just Florida, it's the vast majority of the country, even many blue states. If you look at conflict with ICE, it's entirely concentrated in a few sanctuary cities. Of course this fact is totally ignored by the people who claim that ICE are "Nazis" or "Gestapo".
I read somewhere (should have bookmarked it) that nationally, 65% of hostile interactions between the public and DHS occur in just 9 counties. All are within "sanctuary" declarations. This is a little like that NIH study from a few years ago: "The 1 % of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions".
Correct.
I'm 20 miles south of Orlando, and I regularly see the staff and editors of the Sentinel bemoaning the fact that illegals are being rounded up, but no one else seems to care
All newspapers are deep blue agents of leftist propaganda.
And they are all irrelevant except to lefties. Only idiots read them.
Thats why they want online censorship, they have lost control of the narrative.
Agreed. But they are grasping at flotsam in the wreckage. They are doomed. It isn't just their lack of honesty or bias, it is structural. The medium is dying and can't be saved. That's been happening for a long time.
And it is part of why they are so biased. They have been bought up and consolidated to the extent that most "papers" and the old TV stations are owned by a few people, and they are mostly leftists.
But you see how bad off they are when you see that Fox - which is not rightwing but centrist - nearly has more market than all the rest combined.
Leftist is a word “the system” loves to see us use...it keeps us divided (much like race, religion, gender, age, class, etc).
Normally I would agree with you. The worst nightmare for the uniparty - the "establishment" - is for all of the disaffected to get together and realize the real divides are "class" (money) and power.
But in this case not. "Collectivist" might be better but people don't understand that one so much. The problem is "the left" has been infiltrated and taken over by communists, many of them foreign, moneyed by people like Singham and Soros.
We do not want to be "undivided" from them. They are the enemy, as are the feminazis.
Sure, the right objects to being called fascists and Nazis but love to call the left "communists" ad nauseum (and other names), also non-sensical.
It is not nonsensical idiot. It is definitive. Anyone who cannot see that deserves no respect.
Fascism is not right wing. Neither is National Socialism. As in NAZI, the National Socialist German Worker's party...
When you claim otherwise you are kissing Joe Stalin's dead ass. Calling fascism right wing was his invention. Which makes you dumber than a dead commie...
Collectivism is the umbrella for any group or "philosophy" that places the group over the individual. IMO if you subscribe to that you are no longer human - you surrender your humanity to the collective.
Socialism, fascism, communism, theism, progressivism... All the same things with different names. The same ideas and the same tactics.
Americans - real Americans - are individualists. We place the individual over the collective. We only give the collective what we choose to give it as individuals and resist everything else.
That is why we support the American Republic - it is NOT a democracy. It is a guarantee of inalienable individual rights, as in the Bill of Rights. Things that cannot be touched by any ordinary vote.
And that is why the second amendment is the most important amendment. We are ready to use force to protect the Republic and the individuals that it serves. we reserve the right to overthrow - and END - any tyrant that attempts to usurp that.
Including any and all collectivists.
Because you have a real governor, not a guy who plays one on TV
True that.
The amazing thing is that you believe the statements of the dear leader who lies constantly about the arrested immigrants being "rapists & murderers" and the "worst of the worst". ICE BARBIE says, “The individuals that we are going after are those that are violent criminals, those that are breaking our laws and those that have final removal orders.” Of course, the right believes all illegal immigrants are automatically criminals and should be deported, but to make the deportations more palatable, that is NOT what the Trump administration SAYS it is doing.
From Jan. 20, 2025, to Oct. 15, only 37% had any past criminal conviction, 30% had pending charges, and 33% had NO criminal record. Of these, only 7% had a VIOLENT criminal conviction. Many of the other convictions were for minor offenses like traffic violations.
The administration claim that 70% are criminals claim relies on including those with pending charges as “criminals.” In the US, people are “innocent until proven guilty” and many who were charged will miss their day in a U.S. court because they were deported.
Since Miller is pushing for more & more illegal immigrants to be arrested, the percentage that have no criminal background has increased. In Jan 2026, nearly 43% of those detained had NO convictions or charges, up 10% since Oct. 2025.
The libertarian Cato Institute analyzed nonpublic data from ICE leaked to Cato, and found that among those with criminal convictions detained by ICE, 8% were convicted of violent or property crimes (about 5% were violent criminal convictions). Contrary to administration rhetoric about targeting the “worst of the worst” , the director David Bier described the arrests under Trump as “INDISCRIMINATE.”
I think if ICE actually only arrested violent criminals and were transparent about who was arrested, the protests would be much less. That will never happen under Trump.
I have heard the administration say that almost 70% of the deportations were either convicted of a crime or are pending cases. Your stats seem to bear this out. But you know what? None of them should’ve been here. Biden opened our borders indiscriminately without vetting. Neither Clinton nor Obama did that. In fact, Obama deported 3 million of them. No one protested or interfered with ICE. This is all about Trump and interfering with his administration. And according to the Signal chats it is well funded and organized to disrupt our society. So fuck that shit.
Obama & Clinton did not hire armies of goons to use to invade cities and indiscriminately grab black & brown people off the streets. They did not have ICE agents rappel onto a Chicago apt building and use explosives to open doors in a raid that critics called excessive and inhumane. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called for investigation into reports that children were zip tied & several U.S. citizens were held for hours. ICE said they arrested two people with alleged Tren de Aragua street gang connections, along with dozens suspected of violating immigration laws.
In the past, ICE made most of its arrests in partnership with local jails and prisons, quietly taking into custody immigrants who had already been arrested by another law enforcement agency. Arrests at jails and prisons went up in 2025 but the increase was far exceeded by the growth in what ICE calls “at-large” arrests, the apprehensions of immigrants on the streets, in courthouses, and at homes and businesses.
Obama built the cages he put the families in. Not a peep from the media. Not a peep from the left. No riots or protests or whistles or spit coming from the professional agitators towards ICE. You are all hypocrites.
Really glad they got the criminal aliens that they did. Probably would not have happened with Harris in the White House. As you know, it's much more likely she would have increased the number of violent illegals in America's neighborhoods.
Then, there's the issue of over 100,000 unaccompanied migrant children that Noem's DHS have recovered and returned to their families. Lot more work to do there, too.
So, here's the database for the WOWs arrested since last summer. You can look up your own state to see who was arrested and why. Why don't you look it over and then come back and make an argument why they should not have been arrested and why it's good for immigrant neighborhoods to have criminals for neighbors... or, as Walz calls them "our neighbors of color".
https://www.dhs.gov/wow?combine=&field_country_of_origin_target_id=All&field_state_value=All
Thanks for the link Jeff. I looked at my state & there are 24 pages of pictures of criminals with the pertinent info. Surprised, (but happy)as I’m in the sanctuary state of WA.
Hopefully they haven't been released back into the community!
The point is that Trump is LYING when he claims that the US is only deporting people convicted on violent crimes and "the worst of the worst." He is also deporting people who have NO criminal history. Not that anybody on the right cares that Trump lies constantly.
So your DHS website displaying the "worst of the worst" has 1688 pages with 12 people/page = 20256 people.
Over the past year, President Donald Trump’s administration has deported about 230,000 people who were arrested INSIDE the country and another 270,000 at the border, an analysis of federal data shows. Another roughly 40,000 people “self-deported.” This equals 540,000 while DHS says 622,000 people had been deported under Trump, although they did not respond to requests for a more detailed breakdown of that figure.
So 20256/622,000 = .032 or 3.2% of the deportees are violent criminals.
If you use the figure of 230,000 people arrested INSIDE the country, that gives:
20256/230000=.088 or 8.8% of deportees are violent criminals.
You did not read my post. I said, "I think if ICE actually only arrested violent criminals and were transparent about who was arrested, the protests would be much less. That will never happen under Trump."
Did you forget that the vile Stephen Miller came up with the "zero tolerance" for children to be separated from the families in Trump's first admin and did NOT EVEN keep track of which children belonged to which families? Miller advocated for the policy as a tool for deterrence, arguing that harsh penalties would discourage illegal immigration.
Trump's chief strategist , the most influential person in his admin, Stephen Miller, who determines who & how people get deported is a white supremacist. He would like to expel all brown & black people from the US, even using "denaturalization." Former Breitbart editor, Katie McHugh, who has since denounced racism, leaked more than 900 emails from 2015-16 to "Hatewatch, in which Miller relays white nationalist conspiracy theories and offer news tips to Breitbart on how to cover immigration and amplify stories about black and Hispanic crime.
The emails have been printed by SPLC and their existence verified by the right wing news organizations NYPost & Fox.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/stephen-miller-breitbart-emails/
https://nypost.com/2019/11/13/aoc-calls-on-stephen-miller-to-resign-over-leaked-emails/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stephen-miller-house-democrats-107-letter-resignation.
Trump never said that. You're making it up. Trump said he would deport ALL illegal aliens starting with the worst first. That's exactly what he's doing. So far, over 20,000 of the worst. That's great progress.
Are you kidding? Trump literally rants about deporting dangerous criminals, murderers, & rapists, people sent from prisons & mental institutions who are "poisoning the blood of our country" ALL THE TIME at rallies, on truth social. Since it is repeated so frequently, it makes people believe that ALL illegal immigrants are violent criminals and that is who he is deporting. This is what he wants people to believe. The left does not hate black and brown people who fled violence and poverty and have lived & worked here peacefully for decades as the right does.
Are you kidding? I have yet to read any comment from you that isn't a delusion on behalf of whatever Trump slop hits your trough. Not one comment that is reasonable or logical. All are vague platitudes that completely lack evidence to support your claims. "Innocent fisherman" comes to mind.
Illegal entry into our country is a federal crime. Only you and your fellow morons make assumptions that people believe that all illegals are violent. Nobody has suggested that. Apparently, you and your fellow lefties believe that predatory criminal illegal alians should be allowed to freely roam our country without question and that interfering with their removal is heroic.
https://www.dhs.gov/wow?combine=&field_country_of_origin_target_id=All&field_state_value=All
That might be what you believe, but you're only fooling yourself. The right and the middle believe in immigration law regardless of skin color. The hard left thinks they can pick and choose which laws to follow and uses black and brown people as pawns in their psychodrama.
Even if your stats were true, the “ protesters” wouldn’t care. Most are paid & organized to carry out orders of chaos. The leftists want 100% amnesty. The democrat party wants the votes. They cannot win a fair election & they know it. They’re fighting for the power they see slipping away.
Who exactly paid the thousands of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis on January 23, 2026 in subzero temps to protest ICE actions, with demonstrations continuing in the following days. You just echo your dear leader who likes to make statements like that and also lies non-stop about the 2020 election being "stolen."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jameshowardkunstler/p/now-you-will-know?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios
Nguyen Ngoc Loan was a South Vietnamese general. The man shot was a Vietcong member, not wearing a uniform in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Battle field execution was warranted. It was not a war crime, but was presented as such by US media. Still misunderstood incident to this day.
Not only was he in violation of the Geneva Conventions, but Lem had been committing major war crimes himself. It's an excellent example of how people can be easily misled by first impressions. Very few people know about the full backstory:
"In the morning of the second day of Tet, January 31st, 1968, when general Nguyen Ngoc Loan was leading a fierce fight near An Quang Pagoda in Saigon’s Chinese quarter, two of his officers brought to him a communist cadre who had murdered many innocents in cold-blood in the past couple days. He was Captain Nguyen Van Lem, alias Bay Lop.
Minutes before he was captured, Bay Lop had killed a RVN policeman’s wife and all of his family members including his children. Around 4:30 A.M., Nguyen Van Lem led a sabotage unit along with Viet Cong tanks to attack the Armor Camp in Go Vap. After communist troops took control of the base, Bay Lop arrested Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Tuan with his family and forced him to show them how to drive tanks. When Lieutenant Colonel Tuan refused to cooperate, Bay Lop killed all members of his family including his 80-year-old mother. There was only one survivor, a seriously injured 10-year-old boy."
War is insanely ugly. It should be avoided.
Orenv— so true!
Wonder how anyone can view what happened in November 24 when lame duck autopen launched mid range missiles inside Russia— followed 7 months later June 25 from deep STATE assisted droning inside Russia.
Followed by Soros and his ilk along with NGO’s funded “mostly peaceful” protests. Either will do WW3 or USA Civil War for the deep STATE and its allies. Somehow these treasonous acts must stop and those responsible must face consequences
Thank you for explaining that. I am 75 and remember this photo, but not the story behind it.
Thank you for this additional background. The MSM is fully in thrall to leftist/communist/globalist propaganda and is expert at wielding images to distract the audience and reinforce the “narrative”.
This is why I prefer to READ most news, gathered from multiple sources. We rarely watch TV news.
And these were the stories that Dan Rather and his ilk used to demonized Americans. Even Uncle Walter Cronkite was a leftist puppet of propaganda. He never outwardly showed his leftist bias.
It was summary justice. The man being shot had the blood of dozens on his hands. War is brutal like that, which is why it should be avoided when possible.
Loan's family had been killed by VC shortly before.
I was just coming on to say that even this photo was taken out of context. Thank you for beating me to it.
Exactly!
The shooter wasn’t US military or he probably would have been. At the same time the communists were going into villages and murdering the villagers and their children to get their cooperation.
The war was as mishandled as a military campaign can be. For one example, during the Johnson years Washington was informing the Russian embassy of the location and time of upcoming air strikes so they could evacuate any Russian personnel.
In Vietnam we allowed the press free rein and they reported pretty much anything they wanted, while the communists tightly controlled their news. As a result the news of VC and NVA war crimes were pretty much never aired in the West.
I understand why he did it, but is the execution of POWs not a war crime nonetheless? He was captured, not on the battlefield.
Given that a week or so prior to his death, Pretti had attempted to stop an arrest by screaming at agents, spitting at/on them, and kicking out the taillight of their vehicle--apparently while armed--it is "pretty" clear that he was looking for a violent, suicidal confrontation with law enforcement. He got his wish a few days later.
The failure was not that he was shot--agents have the right to defend themselves from violent assaults-- but that he was not arrested after the first violent incident. Had that occurred, he likely would be alive today.
Yeah, Durbin, he's a disgrace...
Liberals love to self-nominate for the Darwin Award
I suspect Pretti would have been back on the streets the same day even if he had been arrested.
That occurred to me, too, but maybe that would not have been the case had the feds done the arresting.
That the Feds have been accused of being too harsh may be one reason they didn’t arrest him. Also they could have been distracted by another insurgent. On the whole the Feds have shown amazing restraint considering all the abuse heaped on them.
Agree 1000% that the real story is not that the feds shot two "protesters" in Minneapolis, it is that they did not shoot many more, given the many provocations aimed at getting them to react/overreact.
Let's amplify that message.
I guess that ICE did not plan for mass detentions and arrests. It seems like most detained were later released without charges. THAT was bad planning.
Yes, ICE was not ready for mass detentions of violent agitators. But it was the refusal of Walz and Frey to bring in the Minneapolis police and Minn National Guard to arrest these offenders that is the real problem here. It's almost as if Walz and Frey wanted these violent encounters between ICE and the "protesters."
Not "almost as", their goal is indeed violence.
And distraction from a number of questionable decisions. 🙄
This is how irony and karma work together. "Don't believe your eyes!" the senator raged. Possibly one of the finest self-punkings ever seen in our sacred halls of democracy.
Six-foot photographs of AI fakes memorialized as fact in the Congressional Record before the toast has even popped from the toaster.... It's 2020 all over again. The Color Revolution just never ceases.... Time to ask ourselves some questions:
https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/you-might-be-a-red-guard
Half the country thinks Rittenhouse shot 3 black demonstrators. They were all white felons who were trying to kill him. The two that died were an exceptionally nasty variety. Sexual abuse of a small child and wife beating.
When Democrats are not evil, they are just stupid. :)
(There are still a few noble exceptions, of course.)
Oh yeah name one. Fetterman sometimes.
I have not heard one dem reject any of the ill-liberal, anti-science, anti-fact, anti-American, anti-law propaganda that we all have seen, heard and experienced over the last ten years. None of it. Fetterman being the single exception tells me that all dems, except one, are complict in our current situation.
Why would you expect to hear rejections of that propaganda BY ITS AUTHORS AND FUNDERS?
I foolishly held out hope that sensible people would not continue to fall for the bs after the covid scam.
And you won’t here one.
Other than FORMER Democrats like Sasha, I can think of Henry Cuellar, Harold Ford, Fetterman, yes, and . . . and I can count them with one hand at this point. Which is sad. Decades ago, I used to split my ballot and vote for a Democrat or two just about every election. There were a lot of Democrats I respected.
Gabbard
Manchin
Phillips
Webb
All were run out of the DNC due to their honesty.
RFKjr, Sinema. Dean Philips has remained with the party that shit on his presidential aspirations. He actually recieved votes in the dem primaries, but so what. Cuellar as well even after being pardoned by Trump after his party attempted lawfare against him for his border complaints.
Dems have gotten so far away from reality on behalf of TDS, that I can't even imagine who can save them from themselves. All of their antics and those that obediently complied will not be memory holed, no matter how hard they try.
and they can be both as well
Half the country lives in a different country than the other half
Different REALITY
There is no reality anymore other than what we "perceive" to experience personally. The ability to "fake" anything is only going to get better. Combine the ultimate propaganda tool with the corporate media megaphones and the public and private money funding pressure groups, it's gonna get ugly. Not sure there is a solution other than teaching people how to think and act rationally. Is that even possible anymore?
"Well, it seems like it could be true, and is something I want to be true. That's fact enough for me."
You can't change the liberal mind that has thus accepted any fabrication that fits their world view.
Your comment reminds me of a story my spouse (a St. Louis Cardinals fan) told me about listening to Harry Caray play call on the radio. “It might be, it could be! The shortstop has it . . .”
I had a friend who was special forces in Viet Nam. He personally did deep fakes back then and said he never believed a single photo he saw after that. This was 55 years ago.
What we face is multi-faceted. It arrives daily at us with the usual misleading persuasions of traditional media, digital media. There are attention grabbing social media campaigns. There are others with crowd funding which amount to psychological operations. It is a kind of battle without soldiers in uniforms or guns. Everyone participates passively or actively. We exist within permanent conflict, a battle for our minds. But none of it changes the morality of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood.
Recent example on X. There were several postings of a list of 192 R’s that supposedly recently voted for continuing funding of welfare benefits for refugees. Fake - the list was actually from July 2021. Then 192 GOP did vote for a visa immigration measure for Afghan refugees. A bad move in 2021 but unethical for it to used by so called conservative influencers this week. Sowing division is their game.
It is not “compassion,” or “empathy,” or “keeping families together” its Democrat power to ruin America their special way.
The deviousness won't end. There's too much at stake (power, money) so expect it to persist, sadly. And give your trust with care.
Remember, the human mind has been dumbed down for generations via a variety of methods that continue to this day. Can anyone identify who or what controls “the system?” When “the system” has all of the power and money ever wanted, what’s left for them to control? I have yet to read about the true ID of the system and until then, we’re just taking shots in the dark.
Not in the public schools, I fear. Teachers are among the worst (joined by nurses!) offenders on social media championing transgenderism, draconian medical policies (get your vax or ELSE), and weepy or violent screeds against ICE, Trump and various conservative figures.
I'm not celebrating the death of Alex Pretti...but I'm also not shedding a tear
Durbin should be told to retract his statements on the floor of the Senate. If he refuses, he should be disciplined (censured?) by the Senate.
Amen
Besides a total and scrupulous avoidance of self awareness, the Democrats’ greatest flaw is that they believe their own bullsh*t. Whether it’s “hands up don’t shoot,” or Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, or Hunter Biden’s laptop is a Russian plant, it’s easier to believe the provable lie than admit they’re on the wrong.
It isn't that they believe. They WANT TO believe and are perfectly fine with any story that makes them feel righteous, even if fake.
Now it turns out that 11 days prior to the shooting, this guy charged at ICE officers shrieking and spitting and kicked out a tail light on their vehicle. Even his family had to admit that. So he was a pistol-packing rage machine that they'd had a previous run in with. The fact that he was still walking around after it shows tremendous restraint on their part.
I've two nephews who are police officers in a big blue east coast metro, and I can see them making the exact same call in a similar situation. As they say, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
Minnesota protesters pretends to care about protecting illegal immigrants and conviently ignore the fact that ICE is targeting criminal illegals. Fourteen States have seen more deportations than Minnesota including the blue sanctuary states of California and New York. No riots in those states. Why? The answer is because Minnesota is a crime scene and the protests are being pushed as a distraction from the massive fraud used to buy the political support of an immigrant population both legal and illegal. The grift is massive and embedded in the political machine and police hierarchy. The national politicians who have jumped on the bandwagon with misleading narratives and AI fakes are either useful idiots or suffering from lack of integrity due to extreme TDS, or both. The fight to reestablish the original principals of our Republic is far from over.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
It used to be that most/all of the daily news corps prided themselves on providing "accurate" information....that motto has now been subverted and changed to keep up with the hyper stylized 24hr news cycle to now be "be the first" to report it and consequences be damned, we can always put out a "correction" in small print later.
This of course leads back to the famous quote I believe from Mark Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
You are too kind, Sasha. Dick Durbin didn't "fall" for this - he took the opportunity to exploit it. He has consistently been thoroughly mendacious, with only Schumer being his corrupt peer. Both soullessly lie because they know legions of clueless, gullible people (AKA liberals) will believe them. It's wonderful that Durbin is retiring. While I'm sure the liberal that replaces him will constantly lie as well, it will take them a while to rise to Durbin's level of proficiency.