Minnesota’s insurrection ICE capades ramped up again last Saturday, when an armed man was shot and killed by ICE agents while he was resisting arrest, as it turns out, for the second time in a week.  This shortly after the killing of a woman who nearly ran over an ICE agent with her car.  Surprising no one, the Left and its lap dog media knows who’s to blame – Trump.

The usual political suspects are calling the same names – Hitler, fascist, Nazi, etc.  The ICE operations this week were compared, seriously, to Nazi roundups of Jews who were taken to death camps.  That idiot, Governor Tim Walz, even compared Minnesota rioters shielding illegal aliens from deportation to Ann Frank hiding in an attic in World War II.  The Director of the National Holocaust Museum had to cry foul on that one.

And speaking of idiotic Tim Walz, his oped in The Wall Street Journal this week, was even more outrageous.  Entitled, The Un-American Assault on Minnesota, the piece, and it truly was a piece, complained of “a campaign of brutality,” that “shot and killed two of our neighbors.”  He said, “countless other protesters were physically attacked,” and that the only thing the subjects of the operations (illegal aliens) had done wrong was “to exist as persons of color.”  What unmitigated horse shit.

One of the “neighbors” who was shot obstructed ICE operations for hours.  She ignored orders to leave the area.  When she was ordered from her car, she gunned the engine, and nearly ran over a ICE agent.  The second Minnesota “neighbor” had, a week earlier, obstructed the ICE officers.  When they tried to arrest him, he resisted arrest, and suffered a broken rib.  Luckily, he was a nurse, so he knew how to treat his wound.

On Saturday, he returned to the scene of ICE operations, this time without any identification, and armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol, and two spare magazines, enough ammunition to shoot 30 people.  When he ignored orders to leave, and the agents tried to arrest him, he resisted 6 officers who were attempting to handcuff him, the gun came out, and he was shot.  The incident is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

But back to Governor moron.  The only thing the targets did wrong was to be people of color?  Well, no, and no.  Your complexion, or being from a Spanish speaking country isn’t a wrong.  In fact, more than half of all ICE agents are Hispanic.  In any case, the people ICE is trying to arrest in Minnesota are illegal aliens who have committed crimes, here, or in their own countries.  They are subject to removal by law, and they include murderers, rapists, and child molesters.  These are the neighbors the Minnesota maniacs are trying to protect.

Walz went on to claim that Minnesota does cooperate with ICE.  That’s a blatant lie.  And I loved this one.  He said “everyone in Minnesota wants to see the immigration laws enforced.”  I guess that is, except all elected officials, and the violent nuts in the streets.  This was the best one though.  Walz said, all Minnesotans are doing is “protesting, loudly and urgently, but peacefully.” Sound familiar?  The last time Trump uttered those words, he was impeached, and then indicted.

And who is Walz trying to kid?  Assaults on ICE agents are up over 1,000 percent.  There’s a big difference between protesting and obstruction of justice.  Protestors march up and down with their signs, singing and chanting.  Rioters, like the nuts in Minnesota, stalk the agents, blowing whistles to warn illegal aliens.  They dox the agents, disclosing their addresses, so their families can be attacked.  They throw rocks, and shoot fireworks at the agents.  They physically assault them, and then they resist arrest.  And some of the Governor’s “neighbors” have deep pockets.  The revolutionaries are being bankrolled by people with enough money to provide access to internet tracking systems, and to have trucks magically appear, providing the nuts with ballistic shields and commercially printed signs.

And the insurrection seems to be gathering followers.  The same day the Walz Oped ran, Journal editor Gerard Baker published his piece, Time for a Cease- Fire on Immigration Enforcement.  Baker says the two killings were avoidable.  I agree.  If Ms. Good didn’t try to run over the agents, she would be alive.  As for Mr. Pretti, having been arrested a week earlier, he was fully aware of the line where protest becomes obstruction of justice.  He not only came back and crossed that line, but he purposely took a loaded gun to a riot that he, himself was provoking.  Had he left the gun at home, he would be alive.

In the wake of this latest shooting, the Administration is trying to lower the temperature in Minnesota.  That’s a good idea.  But simply pulling all agents out and declaring a “ceasefire” is not.  A federal retreat would be taken as a victory by the Leftist revolutionaries, who would then spread their violent tactics to other locations.

Mr. Baker admits that the Trump Administration’s efforts to remove illegal aliens are legitimate and necessary, and enjoy full democratic legitimacy.  The inquiry should stop right there.  He goes on to admit that the far Left and their Democrat enablers are trying to get us to abandon all efforts at immigration enforcement.  Makes sense so far.  But then he goes off the rails.

Baker then says, that their efforts to undermine the process are nothing compared to the public unease being generated by the tactics ICE is using.  “Masked men, equipped for street warfare.”  Mr. Baker, they’re masked because Leftist nuts are doxing them and threatening their families.  They’re equipped for  street warfare because they are engaged in a war on the streets, and not a war of their own choosing.

ICE has to employ frightening, seemingly heavy-handed tactics because and only because the governments of sanctuary States like Minnesota prohibit police officers from aiding ICE or even from coming to the assistance of brother officers who are under attack.  That is a shameful dereliction of duty for any law enforcement officer.  The reason for the resort to urban warfare in Minnesota isn’t misconduct by ICE officers.  They’re just fighting for their own survival.

Simply put, the problem isn’t too many ICE officers in Minnesota, it’s too many revolutionaries in that State, coupled with elected officials who openly aid and abet insurrection.  In Texas, ICE apprehends and deports 10 times as many illegal aliens as in Minnesota, without incident.  The difference is that the Texas government recognizes the constitutional authority of the federal government, and Minnesota’s does not.  They’re too busy trying to shield themselves and their Somali fraudsters from federal scrutiny.