Apparently, ICE protesters are unaware of how they look. Videos observed from the media indicate significantly more than half are white. Do these protesters understand their government leaders have prioritized illegal immigrants over them?
Do they realize that all levels of blue states government and the Democrat party in the federal government go out of their way to provide social and economic benefits to illegals that are not available to US citizens (the protesters themselves)?
Were these protesters eligible to get free transportation, housing, medical care, credit / debit cards for living expenses as the illegals did? Did protesters get free, high-end $400 a night hotel rooms?
The protesters are supporting blue state politicians who are defending and protecting Tren De Aragua and MS-13 gang members and criminals. Blue state politicians have allowed fraud from minority communities. Do protesters realize these same politicians would hold them accountable if they committed the same crimes? Protesters are actively defending $150 billion annual cost for illegals from their own pockets and the pockets of U.S citizen taxpayers (it is actually $181 billion, I removed $31 billion in tax revenue from illegals).
Why are NY, CA, MN, IL, MD and others are fighting like hell to keep their illegals here. Do protesters realize that there are 390,000 immigrants as of 2023 (164,000 are non-citizens) and 107,000 are Somalis residing in Minneapolis/St. Paul? This represents 11 percent of the population, which could control the vote in those communities and most likely outweigh the impact of protesters own votes and other U.S. citizen votes. Don’t tell us there is no evidence of voter fraud after 315,000 illegal votes from Fulton County, Ga. in 2020 were counted. Figuratively speaking, protesters have shot themselves in the foot and don’t even know it.
Do protestors understand that intentionally impeding law enforcement in their assigned duties cannot be allowed? Federal government agencies like Homeland Security, Border Protection, ICE and numerous others are lawfully conducting their duties as established by federal law.
What do protesters and blue state politicians think the remedy is; forget about illegal immigration, its billions in costs, implications to U.S. citizens and to voter fraud? Maybe we all get together and sing “Kumbaya”? It seems to me blue state politicians are making fools out of protesters. Illegal immigration cannot be ignored or overlooked. My guess is it’s not going to end well for either protesters or illegals.
Jeff Musante is a resident of the Village of Calumet Grove.