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To: Bonefish who wrote (1585292)	1/26/2026 2:05:29 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585883

January 26, 2026 When my Ukrainian wife and I got married several years ago, one of the first things we had to do was apply for her US residency visa so that we could continue living in Puerto Rico. The process was overly bureaucratic and cumbersome… and there is ample room to reform it. But the federal government’s general goal was to make sure that (1) my wife wasn’t a criminal and (2) she wouldn’t be a burden to the state. We had to prove that she had a clean record and no communicable diseases. I also had to demonstrate the financial means to support her so that she wouldn’t end up on food stamps. Again, the process was flawed. But the overall objectives were sound. That’s why I’ve always been so mystified at how the US treats those who enter the country illegally. My wife, who came the legal way, had to be upstanding and self-sufficient. Those who come illegally are given free healthcare, free housing, and all sorts of other gimmes, courtesy of the taxpayer. There also doesn’t seem to be much interest in whether a migrant is a violent criminal, drug pusher, human trafficker, or fraudster. ICE has long said that their deportation operations across the country are targeting “the worst of the worst”, i.e. migrants who are hardcore criminals… and that seems sensible. But it’s hard to know what the actual results are. There’s so much noise from all sides-- most of them anecdotes (which are frequently made up). There are stories of law-abiding residents who were brought to America as babies and lived in the US for decades, ripped from their homes and deported. But there are stories of scumbag murdering rapists being shipped away. I think some actual data would be helpful in “taking down the temperature”. For example, how many arrested migrants have been incarcerated, charged, or at least connected to crime (beyond immigration violations)? How many legal residents or citizens were mistakenly arrested? And how much money is being spent? Such data would help voters understand the real costs versus benefits of the ICE raids. All that said, however, I still don’t understand what compels someone to insert themselves with a deadly or potentially deadly weapon (whether vehicle or a loaded handgun) into the middle of a law enforcement operation. Are they honestly risking their lives to save illegals from deportation? If so, why don’t they also form “watch networks” and disrupt local police drug busts? Perhaps it’s because the law enforcement in this case is federal. But that doesn’t make sense either, given that plenty of federal agents (FBI, DHS, DEA, etc.) operate and arrest criminals in the state every single day. The only answer I can come up with is because they hate Trump. Every action or reaction is guided by intense anger and a need to “resist”, rather than a rational analysis of pros and cons. “Leadership”, and I use that term very loosely, encourages this irrational behavior. They rage-bait their supporters and encourage them to “put your bodies on the line”, in the words of Minnesota’s lieutenant governor. Her reasoning was that Donald Trump is “literally taking away health care from your neighbors, stealing food off of the table from seniors and from children”, which is a fanatical level of deceit. (Naturally she fails to mention in her video that said “neighbor” may be an illegal whose health care is part of a massive fraud ring.) They’ve even told kids to participate. Schools are shutting down. Students are walking out. And, bizarrely, educators actually support this. In the Minneapolis / St. Paul area alone, multiple high schools have staged walkouts. Among them, Roosevelt Senior High has a math proficiency of just 27% and reading proficiency of just 32%. At Faribault Senior High, it’s 10% and 32%. At Humboldt High it’s just 9% and 24%. These kids can barely read. Yet they’re being encouraged to skip school to support people who are in the country illegally. What exactly is the goal? I can empathize with certain concerns-- living in a neighborhood where federal agents might inadvertently kick down my door would be stressful. I also appreciate cases where law-abiding people have been living in the US for decades and know no other home. But it’s clear to me that the Left just wants illegals in the country. More migrants mean more federal money, which means more fraud for their allies, more slush funds to buy elections. And it means more votes to keep them in power. And that’s all they really care about-- remaining in power. They clearly don’t care about their constituents. If they did, they’d fix the schools and encourage the kids to stay in class instead of protest. They’d incarcerate violent criminals instead of releasing them loose onto the streets and giving them the right to vote. They’d improve public services instead of giving so much money away to migrants. They’d end the fraud. But they won’t do any of that. They just want to stay in power. And the realpolitik is that the Left needs useful idiots to martyr themselves, because, whenever someone dies, it turns up the heat on the President to pull ICE out… so their status quo continues. That’s why they won’t tell people to stop disrupting federal agents. More chaos is good for the Left. Minneapolis was already a fraudulent mess before ICE got there. That’s part of the reason they deployed there to begin with. But it’s an even bigger mess now… and it doesn’t look like there’s a good way out. The crazy thing is that, barely a year ago, the Left was in tatters after the 2024 election. Today the Left is once again emboldened… and they believe that if they protest loudly enough, if they “resist” forcefully enough, if they cause enough chaos, then they’ll get their way. And that strikes me as an incredibly dangerous outcome. To your freedom, James Hickman Co-Founder, Schiff Sovereign LLC