Homeland Security plays games while deportations fall flat



The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t deported nearly enough illegal aliens to justify the massive distraction and cost of providing security for the 2026 World Cup. In Secretary Kristi Noem’s own words, “the 2026 FIFA World Cup is anticipated to be the largest, most complex sporting event in the world — equivalent to a dozen Super Bowls over a single summer.”

Congress already allocated $625 million for World Cup security in Democrat-run cities, many of which fight Trump’s immigration agenda at every turn — including his effort to make those cities safer. That sum doesn’t even touch the other operational costs the administration will pick up, diverting substantial law enforcement bandwidth away from deportations.

In the absence of a serious mass deportation drive, hosting a summer-long soccer spectacle is an insult to Americans who want their country back.

Why shower these hostile jurisdictions with taxpayer dollars to celebrate a recreational export from the third world? It makes no sense. The DHS fills its feeds with memes invoking legacy America, then turns its focus from mass deportations to futbol. Add to that the wave of tourist visas that will be handed out to international fans, swelling an already absurd total of 55 million visa-holders inside the United States.

The numbers don’t add up

The Trump administration’s deportation progress remains anemic. Reliable statistics don’t exist because they aren’t being published, which runs directly against Trump’s own promises of transparency. It also mirrors the very failure senior Trump officials once blasted Biden for — refusing to release numbers.

What little we do know is piecemeal. The DHS told CNN that ICE deported nearly 200,000 people in the first seven months of Trump’s term. A senior official even boasted that put ICE “on track for its highest rate of removals in at least a decade.” But that still fell short of the administration’s stated target.

Even taking the 200,000 figure at face value, we’re still talking sub-Obama-level numbers. When Americans voted for Trump, they voted for the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. The second item on his 20 campaign promises spelled it out: millions removed from the interior, more than at any time in history.

Trump himself often invoked Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” as the benchmark. By most estimates, that meant removing about half of the illegal aliens in the country. Applied today, that’s roughly 10 million people — half of the often-cited 20 million total. Nothing we’ve seen so far comes close. The math just doesn’t math.

Self-deportation is a mirage

In the absence of solid deportation numbers, the administration has leaned on funky “self-deportation” estimates instead — survey-based economic studies that supposedly suggest that millions have left. The methodology is flimsy.

Worse, the DHS already has a direct way to measure: the CBP One app, which offers illegal aliens $1,000 to sign in and self-deport. Hundreds of millions have been spent promoting it. So how many have taken the payout? The DHS won’t say. And are we really to believe that “millions” of aliens supposedly self-deported while leaving free money on the table? Of course not.

The silence here tells the truth: The numbers don’t exist, which is why they aren’t public.

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The wrong priorities

In the absence of a serious mass deportation drive, hosting a summer-long soccer spectacle is an insult to Americans who want their country back. Soccer remains the least American major sport, beloved mainly among non-English-speaking immigrant populations. Its popularity reflects our feckless, America-last immigration policy, not cultural confidence.

It would be both a political and operational mistake to stage a massive security mission for futbol while mass deportations continue to lag. For a DHS that has prioritized slick communications above execution, one can only imagine the hollow theatrics that will accompany this event.

If the administration starts putting commas into deportation numbers, maybe the World Cup can be tolerated. Until then, it is the wrong priority at the wrong time.

Exclusive: GOP lawmaker introduces bill barring illegal aliens from 'sabotaged' census



Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas is taking charge of codifying President Donald Trump's executive orders.

Pfluger, who chairs the Republican Study Committee, recently introduced a bill that would ensure only American citizens are counted in the United States census, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. The legislation, dubbed the COUNT Act, will ensure that illegal aliens are omitted from the census in order to fairly apportion congressional seats.

'We cannot allow Democrats to weaponize our census.'

"The Biden administration sabotaged our census system to count millions of illegal aliens as American citizens, robbing congressional seats from law-abiding Republican states, including shortchanging my home state of Texas by at least one seat," Pfluger told Blaze News.

"This is nothing short of a constitutional crisis."

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Under former President Joe Biden's purview, the administration effectively rigged the census to include millions of illegal aliens into the census, skewing congressional representation in favor of Democrats. As a result, everyday American citizens were overshadowed and overlooked by Democrats' desire to secure a political advantage.

The census currently does not require individuals to provide proof of citizenship, often including illegal immigrants into the official count, which later informs congressional apportionment. Despite the clear malpractice, Democrats are keen on keeping with the status quo.

In May 2024, 202 Democrats unanimously voted against the Equal Representation Act, which requires the census to include a citizenship questionnaire designed to prevent illegal aliens from being included in the total count. Senate Democrats also unanimously defeated an amendment proposed by Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee in March 2024, which would similarly require a citizenship questionnaire on future censuses.

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"That's why I'm introducing the COUNT Act to permanently codify the executive order President Trump signed into law during his first term, creating a citizenship database that ensures only American citizens determine congressional representation and funding, because we cannot allow Democrats to weaponize our census again," Pfluger told Blaze News.

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Wisconsin judge who allegedly helped illegal alien evade ICE just got some really bad news



Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury in May on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of the law.

Dugan, relieved of her duties as a judge in April by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, allegedly helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz — an illegal alien from Mexico charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery — get away from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the alien's pre-trial April 18 appearance in her courtroom.

Dugan has since fought desperately to avoid accountability for her alleged crimes, which were apparently caught on courtroom cameras and could land her up to six years in prison.

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On Tuesday, the Clinton-appointed U.S. district judge presiding over Dugan's case delivered her some bad news about her charges: She can't shirk them despite her attorneys' best attempt to have them dismissed.

Citing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States, lawyers for the Milwaukee judge claimed in a May 14 motion to dismiss the case that as a judge, Dugan is immune from criminal prosecution for judicial acts, that her prosecution violates the limits of federal power under the 10th Amendment, and that her indictment should be dismissed under the canon of constitutional avoidance.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph, the federal judge handling pre-trial proceeding in the case, blew up Dugan's arguments for dismissal last month and recommended that her motion to dismiss be denied.

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"It is well-established and undisputed that judges have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for monetary damages when engaging in judicial acts," wrote Joseph. "This, however, is not a civil case. And review of the case law does not show an extension of this established doctrine to the criminal context."

Joseph noted further, "Does judicial immunity shield Dugan from prosecution because the indictment alleges she violated federal criminal law while performing judicial duties? The answer is no."

In addition to underscoring that there is "no firmly established absolute judicial immunity barring criminal prosecution of judges for judicial acts," Joseph clarified that the Supreme Court ruling in Trump "says nothing about criminal immunity for judicial acts."

The decision on whether to uphold Joseph's recommendation ultimately rested with U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, a former Democratic state senator with a history of attacking President Donald Trump.

'A review of the relevant history reveals the government has the better of the argument.'

Although on paper, it would appear the district judge might offer Dugan a sympathetic ear, Adelman ultimately embraced Joseph's recommendation and similarly dismantled Dugan's arguments for dismissal one by one.

Regarding Dugan's effort to use the Trump ruling as her ticket out of trouble, Adelman wrote in his Tuesday order, "There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered 'part of a judge's job.'"

"A review of the relevant history reveals the government has the better of the argument," wrote Adelman.

The district judge also rejected Dugan's claim that the federal prosecution violates the 10th Amendment, stressing that the indictment of a state judge neither results in the usurpation of Wisconsin's power to select, discipline, and remove its own judges, or the state's sovereignty.

Adelman similarly rejected Dugan's third main argument for dismissal, noting that "the canon of constitutional avoidance comes into play only when, after the application of ordinary textual analysis, a statute is found to be susceptible of more than one construction."

There is, however, no ambiguity with respect to the terms Dugan singled out in her motion to dismiss, namely the words "corruptly" and "proceeding" used in count two of her federal indictment, suggested Adelman.

The district judge denied Dugan's motion to dismiss, then scheduled an in-court hearing for Sept. 3.

Attorneys for Dugan said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that they were disappointed with the decision but "look forward to the trial, which will show Judge Dugan did nothing wrong and simply treated this case like any other in front of her courtroom."

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Online outrage erupts over video of illegal alien's arrest in DC — then the horrific charges against him are revealed



The arrest of an illegal alien on the streets of Washington, D.C., this week outraged many on the internet — that is, until authorities revealed the charges that had been filed against the suspect.

A reporter captured the arrest on video. It shows ICE agents surrounding a man outside a car. When the man tries to make a run for it, the agents grab him and take him down to the ground. He begins to wail and cry as the arrest continues.

'This man’s screams next to our supposed monuments to freedom should haunt all of us.'

The man yells in Spanish, “Please, I’m not a criminal. I work here; I want to be with my family," according to WRC-TV reporter Aimee Cho, who posted the video Wednesday; the clip has garnered 7.3 million views.

Many online responded emotionally to the video.

"This doesn't make D.C. safer. It'll just make people not come to D.C. The cruelty is always the point," wrote Jessica Tarlov, the liberal co-host of "The Five" on Fox News.

Tarlov later deleted the post when it was revealed that the suspect had been hit with heinous charges.

"I didn’t know he was — the DHS memo on him came out hours after the video," Tarlov wrote. "Wouldn’t ever defend such a person! Hopefully you guys will only go after these types versus hardworking folks that have committed no crimes! Will delete my original tweet."

ICE identified the suspect as David Perez-Teofani, who allegedly crossed the U.S. border illegally three times. He also had been charged with one count of indecent liberties with a child under the age of 13 and aggravated sexual battery.

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Others were similarly horrified by the video — presumably without knowing the charges against the suspect.

  • "What a deep spiritual wound in the fabric of the country and its history we’re making today, as we destroy hard-working law-abiding American families who, by every rational measure, could be handed a work permit for the benefit of all," responded journalist Pablo De La Rosa.
  • "This man’s screams next to our supposed monuments to freedom should haunt all of us," said one user.
  • "The cruelty is the point," replied the popular "Republicans Against Trump" account.
  • "This may be a sickening video of a family being torn apart, but at least prices are continuing to go up while companies hire less and less people. Perhaps Trump's policies aren't actually making anything better," replied researcher Derek Martin.

Josh Gerstein of Politico wrote "#Newnormal" before following up later with the statement about the charges.

In addition, ICE criticized prosecutors for dropping the case against Perez-Teofani, but Steve Descano — the commonwealth's attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia — accused ICE of misrepresenting the actions of the prosecutor's office.

In an interview with WRC-TV, Descano said the mother of the victim and the victim stopped communicating with police, and as they were the only witnesses, prosecutors were forced to drop the case. He also pointed out that they could still prosecute him if the witnesses decided to contact police again.

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Florida makes one thing absolutely clear after Obama judge orders teardown of Alligator Alcatraz



An Obama judge issued an injunction on Thursday ordering Florida not only to halt the arrival of new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz but to begin dismantling the facility.

The Sunshine State isn't rolling over, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' office indicated that President Donald Trump's deportation campaign will continue as planned.

Quick background

After DeSantis tasked state leaders with identifying places for a new detention facility to temporarily house outbound criminal noncitizens, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier made a public pitch in favor of "Alligator Alcatraz" — "an old, virtually abandoned airport facility" in the Everglades that could serve as "the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda."

Uthmeier got his way, confirming in June that the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport would indeed become home to America's first state-run facility for federal immigration detainees — a facility that the Department of Homeland Security told Blaze News would ultimately house up to 5,000 beds for illegal aliens in soft and hardened structures.

Within weeks, the airport's 10,499-foot runway was crowded with tents and unsavory characters set for deportation.

As with virtually all effective initiatives related to the detention and deportation of criminal noncitizens, Alligator Alcatraz's development was challenged by liberal activists.

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One of the legal efforts to shut down the camp was launched on June 27 by two environmental groups, Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity.

According to the plaintiffs, Alligator Alcatraz was being operated in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires environmental review processes in cases of federal actions that significantly impact the environment — processes the environmentalists claim had not been undertaken.

Florida Division of Emergency Management Deputy Director Keith Pruett pointed out that the environmentalists' concerns were overblown and that the airport was already active, permanently lit — one of the environmentalists concern-mongered about possible light pollution — and home to existing buildings.

The lawsuit further alleged that Florida's involvement in the project through the Florida Division of Emergency Management exceeded the agency's authority and that Miami-Dade County unlawfully permitted the use of the airport as a detention facility.

Obama judge weighs in

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams made clear in her 82-page order on Thursday that she was persuaded neither by the Trump administration's argument that "the significant national interest in combating unlawful immigration favors allowing Florida to continue the development and use of [the detention camp]" nor by Florida's assertion that the facility was necessary because other facilities are at capacity.

Williams, an Obama appointee, suggested that the perceived need for Alligator Alcatraz "fails to explicate the decision to place the detention camp in the Everglades."

'We're going to continue to do what we need to do to help the Trump administration remove illegal aliens from our country.'

Having ordered a temporary pause weeks earlier, Williams formally barred both the Trump administration and state officials from installing any additional lighting at the facility; undertaking any expansion efforts, including erecting additional tents or buildings; and bringing any new detainees to the site.

Her order allows, however, for modification or repairs to existing facilities if executed for the sole purpose of "increasing safety or mitigating environmental or other risks at the site."

The Obama judge further ordered Florida and the Trump administration to dismantle the temporary fencing, lighting fixtures, generators, and waste receptacles installed to support the project within 60 days.

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"Every Florida governor, every Florida senator, and countless local and national political figures, including presidents, have publicly pledged their unequivocal support for the restoration, conservation, and protection of the Everglades," wrote Williams. "This Order does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises."

Friends of the Everglades celebrated the ruling.

Eve Samples, executive director of the group, stated, "This decision sends a clear message that environmental laws must be respected by leaders at the highest levels of our government — and there are consequences for ignoring them."

Florida fights back

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Blaze News, "This ruling from an activist judge ignores the fact that this land has already been developed for a decade. It is another attempt to prevent the president from fulfilling the American people’s mandate to remove the worst of the worst, including gang members, murderers, pedophiles, terrorists, and rapists, from our country."

"This activist judge doesn’t care about the invasion of our country facilitated by the Biden administration, but the American people do," continued McLaughlin. "We have the law, the facts, and common sense on our side.”

Florida has appealed the order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

DeSantis told Fox News he knew the "fix was in" and that Williams "was not giving us a fair shake."

"We totally expected an adverse ruling," said DeSantis. "And we also knew we were going to immediately appeal and get that decision stayed. So we will ultimately be successful in this. It's not going to stop our resolve. We're going to continue to do what we need to do to help the Trump administration remove illegal aliens from our country. You know, that's the mandate that they have. So we anticipated this, but I don't think it's going to be insurmountable in the end."

Blaze News has reached out to DeSantis' office for further comment.

While the fate of Alligator Alcatraz is up in the air, DeSantis' office made clear that there's no slowing down the deportation train.

Alex Lanfranconi, DeSantis' communications director, noted, "The deportations will continue until morale improves."

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‘I Knew They Were Here’: Colorado Councilwoman Who Revealed Aurora Takeover Reacts To TdA Takedown

'I came face-to-face with several of these men'

No perp walks, no peace



Mexico. Washington, D.C. Minneapolis. Three places, one message: what our enemies believe and how we must respond if we don’t want to become their chattel.

Start with Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum openly prefers her own citizens — the so-called salt-of-the-earth workers — to remain north of the Rio Grande rather than return home. Mexico is so badly broken that demanding the right to export its people into a country that increasingly resents the burden has become a viable political position.

The angry young men Trump just won over demand accountability. Without it, no economic boom, no culture war victory, no campaign slogan will hold them.

Now move to Washington, D.C. How broken do you have to be to protest against safer streets? President Donald Trump has vowed to bring order to the nation’s capital, yet Democrats bristle at the one federal action they’ve apparently never wanted to seize for themselves. For decades they told us D.C. deserved statehood. Now that Trump is taking responsibility for law and order, suddenly they retreat.

The irony runs deeper. Mexico refuses to take back its “working class,” while Democrats refuse to federalize D.C. policing. The one time they might welcome federal control, they balk — because Trump is the guy enforcing it.

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith even admitted she doesn’t understand what “chain of command” means. This is the same woman who served as the department’s chief equity officer before becoming chief. If she can’t figure out who’s in charge, how can anyone else? This is what happens when the left prizes ideology over competence. Throw away your Bibles and your Constitution, kids — we’re going for a ride!

Next stop: Minneapolis. Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh campaigns openly for a Marxist revolution, joining voices like New York’s Zohran Mamdani. They no longer bother to hide their intent. They say the quiet part loud: They want a world where you live under chains.

A decade ago, such a platform would have been a political death wish. Suggesting Democrats were headed down that road would have branded you a “conspiracy theorist.” Today, Democrats think they can win elections on it.

So here’s the pattern: Mexico won’t take back its own “industrious” citizens. Washington, D.C., Democrats prefer their largely black constituency to live under siege by criminals rather than accept Trump’s help. And in Minneapolis, a leading candidate runs on a platform of putting Somalia first.

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We tell ourselves we can laugh this off as fringe madness — as long as it’s not in our back yard. But that’s denial. The threat is real, and it’s aimed at our children, if we last that long. This is invasion by increments: more foreigners, more crime, more leaders pretending they don’t know what a chain of command is. Like drums in the deep, the orcs are coming.

What should we do? Whether foreign enemies or domestic ones, whether illegal aliens or corrupt bureaucrats, the answer is the same.

Arrests.

The angry young men Trump just won over demand accountability. Without it, no economic boom, no culture war victory, no campaign slogan will hold them. Fail here and Republicans risk losing the House, neutering Trump’s presidency, and unleashing the very invasion already being planned.

Those who shrug at the chain of command will happily discard the Declaration of Independence next. They will crush the laws of nature and nature’s God. They will trample the Creator’s endowments under a mob now warming up and waiting in the wings.

There must be consequences. There must be arrests.

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Leftist violence surges — and media still blames the right



For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.