When they win, Democrats are fond of telling us that “elections have consequences.”  I’m sure you’ve heard that phrase before.  But clearly, they don’t believe that there are consequences when they lose an election.  The aftermath of the 2024 election is a perfect example.

Last November, Trump won all 7 swing States.  In those States, 77% of the voters said the Democrats immigration policy was wrong.  Among voters in all States, 65% disapproved of the Biden border policy.  Kamala was Biden’s border czar.  She never bothered to visit the border, and she told the heifers of The View she couldn’t think of any Biden policy she would change.  Is it any wonder she lost?

Clearly, Trump ran on a platform of securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws.  The voters elected him to do just that.  Moreover, even absent any promise regarding immigration, President Trump, like any Chief Executive, has a duty to see that the laws of the United States, including U.S. Code Title 8, which governs immigration, are “faithfully executed.” (U.S. Constitution, Article II, section 3).

Trump went right to work.  He secured the border, and began deporting the untold millions of illegal aliens admitted by Biden, which included hundreds of thousands of violent criminals.  Since January, 2 million illegals have gotten the message and have voluntarily left the U.S.  In addition, we are on track to deport some 600,000 illegals this year.

However, a problem has arisen.  It seems that there are some parts of our nation, including entire States, which have rejected the Constitution, and which are rebelling against the federal government’s attempts to faithfully execute the laws of the land.  What we have here is, in effect, the New Confederacy.

As this is written, ICE, and other federal law enforcement agencies, are engaged in what amounts to open warfare in the streets of Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon.  Violent protests, including the obligatory Antifa bastards hurling bricks, shooting fireworks, using smoke bombs, shooting at ICE officers and properties, and committing arson, are ongoing in Chicago and Portland.

The ICE agents are under siege, and the local authorities, not only won’t come to their assistance, but are supporting the violent protestors, and are blaming, you guessed it, President Trump, for daring to enforce laws that were enacted by Democrat controlled Congresses.

It’s gotten so bad that the President has had to send National Guard troops to Portland and Chicago to protect federal property and personnel.  Against the backdrop of the sniper shooting at the ICE office in Dallas, 100 consecutive days of mayhem in Portland, and the open rebellion by Illinois elected officials, no prudent Chief Executive could have done less.

I say open rebellion because that’s the path Illinois officials have chosen to take.  Last week, ICE vehicles were rammed by a 10 car convoy of “protestors,” who boxed-in and menaced the ICE agents.  When ICE called Chicago police for assistance, the Chief of Dispatch explicitly ordered that no police be sent to the scene.

The driver of the convoy car that rammed the officers was a woman who had been cited by ICE for doxxing officers, and who had written, “Hey, to all my gang let’s f— those mother f—— up, don’t let them take anyone.”  Nice.  She was armed with a handgun, and wound up being shot by ICE officers.

The order preventing police from coming to the assistance of brother law enforcement officers is an unprecedented insult to every man and woman wearing a badge.  We’ve come a long way from 9/11, when Chicago police officers took one look at the towers coming down, got into their car, and drove to New York to help, without any orders to do so.

Then it got worse.  This week we’ve heard continuous bashing of the ICE operation in Chicago from bloated gasbag Governor Pritzker, who’s claiming that ICE and the National Guard are illegally in Chicago.  Useless Idiot, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an Executive Order declaring ICE Free Zones in the city.  He called ICE officers “a rogue, reckless group of heavily armed, masked individuals” and declared certain parts of the city off-limits to federal law enforcement officers.  On Monday, Johnson doubled down on stupid, claiming that the Trump Administration wants “a rematch of the Civil War.”  Seriously?  Remember who won that one, Brandon?

Portland has experienced nightly violence for months.   Independent journalists trying to report on the chaos, because the lap dog media won’t, have been assaulted.  Journalist Katie Daviscourt identified the person who punched her in the eye.  Police refused to act.  Journalist Nick Sortor was assaulted by a crowd of Antifa thugs.  Portland police arrested Sortor.  Meanwhile, Portland officials deny that anything but “peaceful protests” are going on, and denounce federal immigration enforcement.

The situation has gone beyond the ridiculous.  After having their offices shot at, ICE officials boarded up the windows of their leased headquarters.  Portland officials took immediate action.  They issued ICE a zoning violation.  In addition to being an unconstitutional insult, the zoning violation also is pure bullshit.  Whether owned or leased by the federal government, the building is federal property, and thus not subject to local zoning regulations.

The actions of the officials in Chicago and Portland is nothing less than an open defiance of our Constitution, which clearly states that the Constitution and  federal laws are the supreme laws of the land, overriding any State or local laws to the contrary. (U.S. Constitution, Article VI).

By their actions, the officials in Illinois and Oregon have declared themselves to be in outright rebellion.  That’s what I mean by the New Confederacy.  The notion that States may violate or ignore federal laws that they consider to be unjust is what’s called nullification.  Nullification was the stock and trade of the Confederate States before and during the Civil War.  They were all Democrats.  Nullification is the basis used by Democrats in Southern States who sought to stop the federal government from enforcing civil rights legislation by invoking “States rights.”

The nullification of the confederate States led to a civil war that killed more than 600,000 people.  Attempts at nullification by the likes of George Wallace and Arkansas Governor Faubus are what motivated President Eisenhower to send in the National Guard, and President Kennedy to send the 82nd Airborne in to enforce federal law.

The notion of nullification does not exist in the law.  The federal government, and only the federal government, is responsible for enforcing immigration laws.  Even Il Duce Obama understood this, because he sued the State of Arizona, and the Supreme Court ruled that States cannot assume such enforcement efforts.

The federal government has the right and the duty to go into any State to enforce the law, and to send in troops to protect its assets.  Any State or local official who tries to frustrate these efforts is breaking the law, and engaging in – dare I say it?  An insurrection.

A liberal magazine has even encouraged the insurrectionists to carry out what they call “a soft secession.”  The Trump Administration is fighting back.  It is investigating the illegal acts occurring in Illinois and Oregon.  The Antifa thugs are being supplied with their deadly equipment by some person, persons, organizations or State actors who are seeking to undermine our nation.  This is nothing less than armed rebellion.  The President must put it down by any means necessary.