Whether you call it a pivot, course correction or de-escalation, it is a hopeful sign that President Trump is trying to lower the temperature in Minneapolis.His conciliatory phone calls to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey following the deaths of two protesters demonstrate a desire for cooperation instead of violent confrontation.
Similarly, by sending border czar Tom Homan to meet with Walz and making ICE leadership moves, the president is showing he realizes the current state of affairs is dangerously combustible.
At the same time, Trump’s willingness to compromise on tactics, tone and optics should not be misinterpreted as a surrender on principles.
If he did that, an important pillar of federal law enforcement power would be squandered and his presidency would be seriously damaged by a defection of supporters.
Trump’s pledge to enforce immigration law was a key component of his winning agenda in 2024 and offered a compelling contrast with his Dem opponents.
That distinction remains crucial because it lies at the heart of the Minneapolis mayhem, and offers a roadmap showing how we got to this dizzying moment, where so many people apparently believe immigration enforcement is optional and cruel.
Main problem is Joe’s
The main problem was and remains Joe Biden’s open border policy, which allowed upwards of as many as 15 million unvetted migrants to come to America in just four years.
Recall that he made his vice president, Kamala Harris, border czar, and she promptly disappeared without trying to make even modest improvements in the disastrous status quo.
That she continued to defend the administration’s approach after she replaced Biden on the ticket was among the mistakes that justifiably returned her to private life.
As with other problems of its own making, the Biden White House was shielded from the political consequences of its border actions by a legacy media that acted as a protection racket.
A chorus of outlets automatically declared anyone a bigot who dared to criticize the nonstop caravans of foreign newcomers and their potential impact on America.
Except for reports in The Post and a few other places, most media were silent about the fact that Biden’s team was secretly sending planes to Central America to pick up illegals and fly them unannounced into cities and states around the nation.
That was only one aspect of a tsunami that often played out in darkness because leftist outlets betrayed their responsibility to inform the public of what was happening.
Among the facts they found too inconvenient to report was that American citizens were being killed and otherwise victimized by illegal immigrants.
Just as they ignored Biden’s obvious physical and mental decline, they saw no reason for concern over the bloody consequences of an open border.
Reality of the border
Had the Biden White House and its media lapdogs been even half-awake and half-honest, they would have realized the vast numbers of people coming across the border were not limited to bedraggled souls merely seeking a better life.
Mixed among them were numerous violent criminals, drug and sex traffickers and gang members. Trump’s intense focus on several horrendous murders carried out by illegal crossers spotlighted outrages that most on the left simply ignored.
Just last November, the Trump White House announced that “450,000 unaccompanied children were illegally smuggled over the border and placed with unvetted sponsors under the Biden administration.”
The announcement was met mostly with silence from Dems, including the likes of AOC and others on the left who couch their support for illegal immigration as being good for women and children.
Part of their defense is the mindless repetition that America is a nation of immigrants.
Yes — but the Biden-Harris wave of newcomers was so vast that there is no comparison in our history.
For example, 12 million immigrants arrived legally in the United States between 1870 and 1900.
That first great wave of immigrants, mostly from Europe, was more easily absorbed over three decades in a vast country where the entire population in 1900 was about 75 million. --->READ MORE HERE
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