Backing Off On ICE is the Wrong Move

Insurrection works.

That’s going to be the takeaway if the anti-ICE riots succeed in weakening enforcement and stepping back raids in Minneapolis. President Trump has hard decisions to make. Midterms that may prove to be a tough battle are coming up and many Republicans are softening and viewing Minneapolis as a distraction. That’s exactly the weakness that the Left hoped to play on.

Yes, there’s a big picture when it comes to the midterms and presidential approval ratings, but there’s also more than one big picture.

Retreating on illegal aliens and on sanctuary states would be a big picture loss with big picture consequences even far down the road. And it more generally tells the Democrats that if they escalate the violence, they will get their way.

That means the riots won’t stop with ICE in Minneapolis. It will become the one-stop solution to everything.

Negotiating with terrorists, whether Islamic in Iran or Gaza, or Marxist/Islamic in America, doesn’t bring peace, it shows weakness and then the terrorism never ends and neither do the negotiations.

Ceding on ICE won’t buy peace. And it won’t even change the topic or end the violence.

There are very good arguments for why this administration should make domestic kitchen table economics its larger focus. If it doesn’t do that, the midterm situation may be catastrophic. But it can do that and fulfill core responsibilities like national defense. Immigration was a major reason, perhaps the biggest reason that Trump is here, because it embodies national survival. We can and should kick the can down the road on some global issues which have been too much the focus lately, but this is a primal issue which is why the Democrats have gone to the mattresses on it and why retreating on it would be a mistake.

Illegal aliens are the political power behind the ghost districts that Dems use to rig elections and maintain outsized political influence.

That’s why it’s the one battle they can’t afford to lose.

Republicans know that if Democrats get their way, they’ll add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and pack the Supreme Court, effectively ending the American Experiment.

Democrats have a parallel fear. They’re terrified that their illegal alien base will disappear and take their fake census numbers and fake districts with it. And there goes their ‘new majority’ and their entire plan to take over the country. President Trump has done a great job of rolling back mass migration, but much of that is perception as illegal aliens have become afraid to come. If the administration signals weakness, the convoys will resume and the domestic riots will move to some other cause.