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Chaotic protests turned riots at a New Jersey ICE detention facility have finally been quashed, and Democratic leaders who stoked the crowd want to give themselves big pats on the back for a job well done.
Of course, they were the reason the situation spiraled out of control.
On Sunday night police arrested over 20 people in a major crackdown at the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, New Jersey.
Groups of well-organized, Antifa-aligned protesters had been loitering around the facility for over a week and refused to leave.
Some of those taking part in the protests behaved aggressively toward ICE agents and even random employees doing their jobs in and around the facility.
At one point they hemmed in a garbage truck driver who became irate and yelled at them, “If I hit one of y’all, I go to jail. … What’s wrong with ya’ll?”
After several violent confrontations and seemingly some pressure from the Department of Homeland Security, Newark finally set curfew and threatened the agitators with arrest if they didn’t disperse.
The New York Post described the scene Sunday night.
“After cops announced the 9 p.m. curfew to encourage people to leave, the number of protesters dwindled to roughly 100,” the Post wrote. “Police in riot gear then advanced into the crowd of naysayers while shouting, ‘Move in!’ Cops fired two rounds of tear gas toward protesters who yelled, ‘Give peace a chance’ and ‘No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA’ — sending more people fleeing until roughly 50 protesters and members of the press were corralled into a tight circle.”
At that point, the Post noted, police arrested between 20 to 25 people.
The Department of Homeland Security posted that those arrested will now face the “full weight of the law.”
And so, this shameful spectacle comes to an end, for now.
That didn’t keep New Jersey Democrats from declaring what a great job they were doing.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill took to X to try to make it seem as if she had taken some kind of heroic action to stop the mayhem.
Sherrill cleverly finagled her public statement to distance herself from the most violent elements of the protests while pinning the blame for the whole mess on ICE.
“My number one priority will always be public safety, and I remain dedicated to protecting constitutional rights. We simply cannot let ICE surge into our community.”
Yeah, she’s all about protecting the “constitutional rights” of people who aren’t citizens of this country by impeding federal authorities from carrying out our laws.
As many were quick to note, it was Sherrill and Democratic Party leaders that empowered these protests and caused the mayhem that needed to be controlled with riot squads.
They’ve done everything in their power to message that ICE—and let’s be real here, any kind of serious immigration enforcement—is inherently illegitimate.
As Fox News columnist David Marcus rightly wrote on Saturday, Democrats “own the chaos” that they’ve sowed at Delaney Hall, which they fully intend to make a flashpoint in their battle against President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement.
Democrat politicians have been showing up at the Newark facility since they made a big show of support for the protests on Memorial Day.
What a great way to show support for America’s fallen heroes, right?
Their message has been that the conditions inside the ICE are inhumane, which the Department of Homeland Security denies.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called for the facility to be shut down entirely.
Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., who got caught in a cloud of pepper spray on Memorial Day because the crowd ignored his pleas not to block the entrance, has said that protesters are simply “angry” that the detention center is “not in line with our values as a nation.”
That’s funny, because Delaney Hall first became an ICE facility in 2011 under President Barack Obama while Kim was serving in that administration. Was it not in line with our “values” then?
The reality is that there was a time when Democrats at least pretended to be for border enforcement. Even a decade ago they dismissed the idea that they were controlled by the open borders Left as some kind or ridiculous right-wing fantasy.
Then President Joe Biden happened. The mask slipped.
Now they are caught in a position of defending unpopular policies while securing the fruits of their “success” in the Biden years.
They are trying to appear as reasonable moderates just looking out for human rights or something while signaling to their base that America will have open borders now, open borders tomorrow, open borders forever.
And that’s how you get the nonsense that took place in Newark over the past week.
Democrats show up at a protest, it turns into a mob, the Trump administration tells them to clean up the mess (or cleans it up for them), and then they tell everyone who heroic and virtuous they were when the dust settles.
Of course, they go right back to telling Americans that ICE is akin to the Gestapo.
Their actions and reckless messaging game couldn’t be more obvious, nor more destructive to the future of the country.
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