The Trump administration’s ‘Worst of the Worst’ deportation strategy was supposed to be a 90/10 issue. Bust and deport illegal alien murderers, rapists and pedophiles and send them back while highlighting Minnesota’s lack of cooperation.
But the Left did what it usually does, flooded the zone with rioters, radicals and lies. The ‘safe’ and ‘popular’ targeted deportation strategy is neither safe nor popular. The administration is wrongly bringing in Tom Homan and rotating personnel on the ground, instead of going directly after the rioters.
It’s a mistake.
The rioters and radicals are there to obstruct immigration enforcement personnel from doing their jobs. They will do that no matter who the commander is. Changing to weaker tactics sends a message that the rioters have won and they will push harder and make immigration enforcement unworkable. At the end the administration’s social media spokesmen and women will declare victory and withdraw, but we will know who actually won by whether Minnesota actually cooperates or not.
This isn’t an ICE or a Border Patrol problem. It stopped being that the moment a systematic radical machine set up shop and began targeting federal law enforcement with the cooperation of local authorities. This is at best an FBI matter. At worst, a matter for the military and the Insurrection Act.
Even if the administration doesn’t want to employ the Insurrection Act, it should be using federal law enforcement agencies to identify, arrest and break up the networks responsible for the riots, instead of rotating CPB commanders. There are people online who have identified many of the players in the riots. The FBI should be taking its cue from them.
The current tactics aren’t working. The Left is winning. It’s time to confront the Leftist operation rather than pretending that arresting the ‘worst of the worst’ will win the narrative war (something the public never even hears about) while the rioters martyr themselves and become the story.
