By Wayne Allensworth
The left has long used provocation to prompt a sharp reaction from the authorities, then claim victim status in propaganda meant to undermine the social order it wishes to overthrow. That’s exactly what is happening in Minnesota. Pathological empaths LARPing as latter day Bolsheviks are harassing ICE officers and blocking streets to provoke them. I’m not going to spend any more of my time watching video clips looking for “proof” that the shooting of Alex Pretti was justified or not, or that it may have been an accident. If I have a hard time figuring out what really transpired, then I can’t expect federal agents to meet a split-second standard in reacting to a perceived threat that I couldn’t. What’s more, these officers are not trained in crowd control. Of course, if an investigation determines the shooting was unjustified then the federal authorities should take action. I’m not in a position to make that judgement. Still, just how many shootings of protestors have occurred outside Minnesota, where the self-righteous LARPers are ubiquitous? None that I know of. That should tell you something. I do not rejoice in anyone’s death. I don’t doubt that some leftists are probably privately gleeful that the shootings of their deluded comrades have taken place. It’s part of the game. And I’m sickened by the gloating and gallows humor of some MAGA Internet Rambos.
We live in a time of very selective outrage. The left has no sympathy for the victims of criminal aliens and Americans in general have tended to turn their eyes away from the massive number of deaths and injuries caused by “their” government in its pursuit of forever wars, especially if “their” president is in charge. Some perspective, not tunnel vision, is called for. Deporting large numbers of foreigners will inevitably involve violence, but a level of violence that shrinks in significance next to bloody wars successive American presidents have committed the country to time and again. Apparently, bombing the hell out of countries who present no clear and present danger to us is not as heinous as sending people back to their home countries.
Our memories are faulty at best. Recall that US presidents in the past have done a lot more than send in a few hundred federal agents to enforce the law. In 1957, for instance, President Eisenhower, ambivalent at best about the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling, sent 1,000 troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas and federalized the state National Guard to enforce that ruling. During the Los Angeles riots following the 1992 verdict in the trial of police officers in the Rodney King beating, President George H.W. Bush employed the Insurrection Act to deploy 3,000-4,000 Soldiers and Marines, as well as thousands of federal officers, to back up California National Guardsmen in quelling the riots. Sure, California Governor Pete Wilson asked for help, but Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, at least until now, has encouraged law breaking and refused to enforce federal law. On January 26, Walz called Trump and Trump reported they had agreed to work together on the situation in Minnesota. He also dispatched border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota. We’ll see what happens next. Just remember that states like Minnesota have refused to hand over criminal aliens in their jails and prisons. The constitution is not a suicide pact.
I’ve criticized the Trump Administration for its approach to immigration control. Mounting a concerted campaign to institute E-verify, employer sanctions, cutting off benefits to illegals, and encouraging lawmakers to force states to stop issuing driver’s licenses to illegals would make more sense. So would using the Justice Department to target the sources of financing of the leftist networks and invoking the Insurrection Act to arrest local officials who are apparently ordering police to stand down and do nothing to stop streets being blocked, churches being stormed, or the harassment of and attacks on federal agents performing their official duties. It seems like par for the course for the administration that it has no apparent strategy or plan that would use all the levers it has at its disposal to combat the swamping of our country by illegal invaders. And by attempting to focus on illegal aliens, especially those who have committed violent crimes, the administration ignores the elephant in the room: the steady replacement of the core American population, which is one of the crimes committed by the system Trump is now managing. Our country is suffering death by a thousand cuts.
I suspect that the neocons are content with the ICE raids, as that keeps the focus on conflict in the streets and off of the long-term impact of massive legal immigration, of H1B visas that bring in foreigners to replace American professionals, and Trump’s willingness to admit more than half a million Chinese students to universities meant to educate our own people. Globalism is still lurking in the corridors of Trump’s White House. Trump himself seems to think of the country as a business enterprise, not a real place with a real people and a real culture. As Tucker Carlson recently observed, at stake is the demographic replacement of the American core European population. The left delights in it and what passes for the right in this country is loath to admit that a rational immigration policy means defending that core. America will simply disappear eventually, with Old Americans simply serving as museum props in exhibits dedicated to a dead civilization.
However haphazard and ill-conceived the administration’s policies are, the federal government has a right and a duty to enforce immigration laws. Minnesota or any other “sanctuary” states or cities have no right to defy those laws. Aliens living there can easily pass over state borders. This is not an issue for Minnesota alone but for all of us. We’ve seen what a transplanted Somalia looks like in Minnesota. We know that Mexican drug cartels are operating on American soil. We must accept the simple fact that we face an existential crisis, that the real conflict, the real war is here, and it is about our survival. We have no duty to police the rest of the world. We have a duty and sacred obligation to defend our home from invaders and from subversives. We cannot shrink from that duty or allow ourselves to be distracted by provocateurs or Machiavellian political hacks of either party.
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood. For thirty-two years, he worked as an analyst and Russia area expert in the US intelligence community.
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Excellent column. I also prefer going the route of forcing self-deportation via “starvation.” Cutting off welfare of any kind and preventing illegals from obtaining employment would inevitably trigger a mass exodus. While the Administration should pursue these avenues more than it has, it faces serious obstacles. The primary one is the judiciary which regularly steps in with unconstitutional rulings preventing the Feds from cutting off funding to sanctuary states and cities. The states run by Democrats won’t cooperate, even when, as we see in Minnesota, the government programs, which are bad enough when run legally, are riddled with fraud. The narrow Republican majorities in Congress won’t pass legislation cutting off the gravy chain or implementing E-Verify, the latter mostly because the Cheap Labor donors would throw a fit. As long as we play by the rules of a rigged game, we will lose.