Donald Trump won the 2024 election on his promise to stop the mass migration across our southern Border. High-profile crimes highlighted that many bad people were among those entering the country. Stopping the flood and removing the bad actors from our country is a big part of Trump’s mandate. The Administration secured the Southern Border and then began rounding up bad actors.

In most places, especially in red states, local authorities worked with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove those they apprehended. So far, so good. However, the scope of the deportations expanded significantly. A presidential advisor was said to demand 3,000 deportations a day. The short-order cook, or the dry-waller, who had been here for years without problems, suddenly became a target.

Not prepared for this wide net, we didn’t want to see our neighbors, employees, and people we depend on taken away. Fear spread. We wanted the bad people out, but not our neighbors with clean records.

Many places claimed Sanctuary City status and refused to work with federal authorities, even to get rid of criminals. Letting them back out on the street, rather than deporting them, is a questionable stance, but the deporting of law-abiding, but illegal migrants, changed perceptions. A Trump underwater issue, the expansion appalled most Americans.

At a time when the U.S. is facing declining population growth, this is terrible timing to kick out millions of working taxpayers. Regardless of the initial costs, most who have been here for years are now positive additions. We’ve educated many dreamers who were brought here as children by their parents. Why kick them out when they’re now paying off? Why adopt such an unpopular position? Whatever the initial costs, the security net, and education expenses are in the past, and the payoff is now and into the future. This action is bad. policy. Americans favor immigration:

So why has the Administration taken this tactic? It’s playing to its anti-immigration base. Presidential advisor Steven Miller is the voice of this base, with media support from the likes of Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, and Steve Bannon. Crossing the base can doom a political career. The committed turnout in primaries puts anyone who disagrees with them in a challenging position, allowing this faction to punch well above its weight. The result is a political Party saddled with a bad, unpopular policy.

Even though it dismayed most of the nation, the Biden administration allowed millions to pour over our southern Border and disperse across the country, many of them bad actors. Sanctuary Cities, mostly in blue states, welcomed them. Unlimited mass migration, if not the official policy, was the de facto result. Run mainly by the progressive left, harbored a defund the police element.

With no support from these cities, ICE has no choice but to send forces to secure the bad migrant element or fail to enforce the law. Still, the wider net opened the door for sympathy protests supporting the non-criminal illegals. Seeing an opening, the progressives’ protests moved on to provocation and interference.

When you provoke, it’s to get a reaction. In Minneapolis, this resulted in two deaths. The strong anti-Ice stance of both the Minnesota Governor and the city’s mayor made it likely that trouble would occur there. The two dead agitators immediately became martyrs.

Left-leaning media continue to call the deaths unjustified. In the case of Renee Good, the claim is that the officer who shot her was in no danger of death or bodily harm to justify his action. Yet, the officer was taken to a hospital and found to have suffered internal injury. The media claimed it couldn’t be serious as he walked away.

When I was five, a fruit peddler’s trunk struck me as my older brother and I crossed the alley behind our apartment building after he had passed. A woman called for him to come back, and he backed over me. I walked to our building, but my parents immediately took me to the hospital, where they found an internal injury. I almost bled to death that night. Only continuous blood transfusion, mainly from my mother, saved my life. A vehicle hit resulting in internal injuries is no laughing matter.

I’m sure hospitals have much better procedures and treatments today for internal injuries, so long as you get there, but don’t say the agent didn’t get hurt. The rule is fear of death or serious bodily harm. He didn’t think of physical harm; he suffered it as a result of Good’s auto. Yet, the most recent issues of Time and The Week magazines failed to mention the injury, implying Hood’s death was unjustified. Instead of jumping to conclusions aligning with your politics, let’s let our legal system determine guilt in these situations.

This assumption has led to a call from the left to abolish ICE. similar to the cries to abolish the Police after George Floyd’s death. This position is unpopular, as “Abolish the Police” has proven to be. You still need someone to get the bad actors, whether it’s ICE or the police. The public understands this even if the extremists don’t.

The Twin Cities and Minnesota were once well-regarded destinations, but are now experiencing population decline. A cold and unpleasant battleground between extreme factions of our major parties, the “deport them all” MAGA mirrors the “abolish law enforcement (ICE or the Police) progressives—the destructive twins in the Twin Cities.

The Gopher State is indicative of what’s wrong with the U..S.’s politics today. Extremists in both Major parties dominate, even though their positions are opposite to the desires of a majority of Americans. It has become the tyranny of the minority.

Unless the parties reform in ways that reflect the views of the majority of their voters, or we make it easier for other parties to participate in our elections, we will all follow Minnesota into decline. Turning a country overto extremists never ends well.