One of the top campaign promises from then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump heading into the 2024 presidential election was that he was going to put a stop to then-President Joe Biden’s open borders policies.
Among other things, the policies were wreaking havoc on border states, putting a strain on resources and contributing to crime problems in cities all across the country.
So when Trump took office for his second term, his prioritization of fixing the border crisis left by Biden wasn’t a surprise to anyone.
What was shocking, though not surprising, however, was just how far open-borders Democrats would take their incendiary rhetoric toward immigration enforcement agents, both those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection services (CBP).
Part of Trump’s illegal immigration policy has been to catch and deport criminal illegal immigrants, which is where ICE and the CBP come in.
The cities they’ve targeted have primarily been so-called “sanctuary” cities where Democrats in leadership positions have put rules in place that effectively make the city a safe haven for those who crossed the border illegally.
This has caused meltdowns among Democrats, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, whose city has a big problem with illegal immigrant crime, with some of the worst of the worst being alleged child predators.
In June, Wu compared ICE agents to neo-Nazis, stating, “I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has similar illegal immigrant crime issues in his city, said in July that “masked, secret police are terrorizing our communities” and claimed without evidence that “ICE will now have a larger budget than all but 15 of the world’s militaries.”
At a commencement address in May, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is said to be considering a 2028 presidential run, referred to ICE as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.”
Another prospective 2028 contender, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, took it further, making Nazi Germany comparisons and alleging that ICE is “grabbing people off the street who speak with an accent or might be brown or black and disappearing them.”
According to DHS, there has been a 1,000% increase in assaults committed against immigration enforcement agents compared to last year.
Included in that percentage are disturbing incidents in states like Texas, where ambushes have taken place against ICE and the CBP at detention facilities, with one of them resulting in a police officer getting shot in the neck.
In the most recent one, a suspect climbed a building near an ICE field office in Dallas and opened fire in the early morning hours. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the suspect’s goal was to kill ICE agents, but he ended up killing three detainees with bullets that contained language similar to what Democrats have uttered about the agents.
The Trump White House has blamed those Democrats in part for the increase in violence against the officers, writing, “Democrats have spent years vilifying ICE as ‘fascists,’ ‘the Gestapo,’ and ‘slave patrols,’ inciting a 1,000 percent surge in assaults on agents and a wave of Radical Left terror.
“Their words aren’t just reckless — they’re a battle cry for violence.”
Though ultimately it is the perpetrator who is responsible for their crimes, one has to wonder how many of them truly do believe the despicable comparisons being made by Democrats and then take it upon themselves to “save” the country from people they view as evil?
This is something Democrats need to seriously consider next time they open their mouths on this topic.
North Carolina native Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a media analyst and regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
