It is said that there are two sides to every story. That is generally the case, but when there is some contradiction in the facts reported, it stands to reason that some elements of one or both sides must be false. Occasionally, one side is almost entirely true, and the other almost entirely untrue, whether through some misapprehension or deception by the advocate of that side. Such seems to be the case in the regrettable death of Renee Nicole Good.
According to the Democrats and their allies in the media, Renee Nicole Good was a loving wife and mother who had just dropped her child off at school. She inexplicably found herself in the middle of a confrontation between ICE agents and protesters. One of these masked agents demanded she leave her vehicle. Since Ms. Good had no idea who these people were, she panicked and attempted to flee the scene, whereupon an agent shot into the side window of her SUV, hitting her in the head and killing her. This was an act of cold-blooded murder. Therefore, ICE must be disbanded before more innocent Americans are slaughtered.
According to Republicans and conservatives, Renee Nicole Good was a professional activist. She was on the scene for the specific purpose of impeding ICE and making it impossible for them to enforce federal immigration law. She blocked them with her vehicle. When Ms. Good was asked to leave her vehicle, she refused. Instead, she backed up, and with the urging of her lesbian “wife”, she deliberately hit an agent. The agent fired into the windshield of the SUV in self-defense, killing her. This was a justifiable shooting.
I am certainly biased, but on the whole, I support the latter interpretation. I do not believe the leftist propaganda that depicts ICE as Trump’s Gestapo. I do not imagine they just go around shooting people at random any more than I suppose that police officers around the country go out of their way to shoot unarmed Black men just because they are racist. The agent in question may have panicked. He may not have needed to fire his weapon. But I have no doubt he sincerely believed his life was threatened.
And, in fact, videos taken at the scene, especially from his own cell phone, show that Ms. Good did deliberately aim her SUV directly at him. It does not matter if she was only driving at 5 miles per hour. She was accelerating. A car at that speed looks threatening when viewed from the front. It can still hurt if it hits. And he had no way to know if she would attempt to hit other people.
But this is all a relatively minor matter. The more important question that I am concerned with is this: why don’t Democrats want federal immigration laws enforced? Democrats declare the cities and states they control as sanctuaries and refuse to assist federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws. When ICE is then obliged to send agents on the ground to implement these laws, Democrats incite violence against them. They encourage violent resistance to federal law enforcement. They compare ICE to the Nazis gathering Jews for the death camps. They characterize the criminals ICE arrests as poor refugees who ICE is cruelly kidnapping off the streets. The victims of these criminals get no such sympathy. Why? Why do the Democrats side with illegal immigrants and criminals against honest American citizens? What do they gain from these policies?
One theory popular on the right is that they are attempting to replace the population. Many Democratic policies have become fairly unpopular among native born Americans. Therefore, the Democrats need to import more tractable voters from abroad. These foreign voters lack the American love of liberty and the Constitution and are more apt to support socialism and authoritarianism. Since they have arrived in this country illegally but have been granted citizenship, or at any rate the vote, by Democrats, they will feel gratitude for the party that has enabled them.
I think there is some truth to this. About twenty years ago, numerous books and articles were written about the emerging Democratic majority resulting from America’s rapidly growing Hispanic population. Obviously, if this were the case, the Democrats would have good reason to increase the number of Hispanics. They would certainly want to allow large numbers of Hispanics into the country, legally or illegally, and earn their gratitude by granting them citizenship.
But I do not believe that is the only reason. For one thing, the Democrats still have a large number of native born Americans willing to vote for them. The Democrats have lost the White working class, and much of the middle class, but the highly educated professionals are still willing to vote for them, as well as the African-Americans. As for the Hispanics, they are a highly diverse population, and many do not care for the woke policies of contemporary Democrats. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Hispanics here legally are not thrilled about opening the borders.
I wonder if it was entirely a coincidence that the protests against ICE have been ramped up following the uncovering of massive amounts of fraud in the Somali community of Minneapolis. I do not believe that I am disparaging the intelligence of the Somalis involved when I suggest that, as relative newcomers, ignorant of American laws and customs, they might have required a lot of help in setting up their fraudulent day care centers and navigating Minnesota’s state bureaucracy. Certainly, state officials, up to the Governor’s office, must have been aware of and complicit in the fraud.
I suspect the fraud that Nick Shirly revealed in Minnesota is only a minuscule fraction of the malfeasance that remains to be found throughout the country. I think that we will learn that illegal immigrant communities are involved in such schemes as pawns in a web of fraud that includes the leaders of the Democratic Party in every blue state. Naturally, they do not want their minions discovered and deported.
Whatever the reasons, by defying federal authority by refusing to allow ICE to enforce federal immigration laws, Tim Walz and the other blue state governors are leading their states and the country down a dangerous path. The last time states claimed the authority to nullify federal laws, it did not end well for anyone. Channeling John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis may improve Tampon Tim Walz’s popularity among his deranged supporters, but it is not helping matters in Minnesota or the country.
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