Here at home, leftists are trying to resurrect the Black Lives Matter strategy against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — even though black Americans are conspicuous by their absence this time around.
Now, it’s mostly middle-aged white women eager to taunt, threaten and obstruct lawful enforcement raids targeting criminal illegal aliens.
But the big news is that the raids are happening at all.
We were told for decades that we couldn’t do anything about illegal immigration — at least not without a big pork-filled, amnesty-laden “bipartisan” bill.
But now the border is basically closed, and those in the country illegally are being shipped out.
Crime in Washington, DC, Memphis, Tenn., and other cities was out of control. Trump sent in the National Guard to fix it.
Sometimes the mere threat of sending the Guard was enough to get local authorities to fix crime problems for themselves — something they could have done all along, but mysteriously didn’t.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reported this week that up to 10% of the federal budget is lost to fraud annually.