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Voters Must Stand Firm on Trump’s Immigration Work

Voting for Trump can’t be ‘one and done,’ especially as the pushback begins in earnest.

Christian Vezilj | January 22, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

On Sunday morning in Minneapolis, a line was crossed that should sober every American who still believes in boundaries, reverence, and the right to worship without intimidation.  A group of protesters stormed into Cities Church mid‑service, marching down the aisles, shouting accusations, and turning a sanctuary into a stage for their outrage.  They didn’t wait outside.  They didn’t hold signs on the sidewalk.  They invaded the service itself, a deliberate act meant to shock, shame, and destabilize.

Just days earlier, at a field hearing in St. Paul, Rep. Ilhan Omar stood at a microphone and referred to this country as the “U.S. g------ states.”  She said it with conviction, with disgust, and with the confidence of someone who believes there will be no consequence for speaking about her own nation with contempt.

For more than half a century, Americans have listened to politicians promise that they would finally address the growing crisis of illegal immigration.  Every election cycle brought the same familiar script: stern speeches, solemn vows, and dramatic declarations that the border would be secured and the laws of the nation upheld.  Yet decade after decade, nothing meaningful happened.  The problem grew, the consequences multiplied, and the political class kicked the can down the road.

This wasn’t because the issue was too complex to solve.  It wasn’t because the laws were unclear or the federal government lacked the tools and authority to act.  It was because too many leaders lacked the backbone to confront the inevitable pushback that real enforcement would bring.  They preferred comfort over confrontation, applause over accountability, and symbolism over stewardship.

That long era of avoidance is what set the stage for the moment the country is living through today.

When voters elected Donald Trump, they did so with a clear and unmistakable mandate: Enforce the immigration laws of the United States and remove those who are in the country illegally — not some, not a symbolic handful, but all who violate the law.  This was not a vague campaign theme or a subtle policy nuance.  It was one of the most explicit promises in modern political history, and millions of Americans supported it precisely because they were tired of decades of empty rhetoric and political theater.

But a mandate, no matter how strong, does not eliminate the difficulty of the task.  This is where many voters must remind themselves of a truth that previous generations of politicians understood all too well: Real enforcement brings real pushback.  The very storm that earlier leaders feared — the media outrage, the political attacks, the emotional narratives, the protests, the lawsuits — is now unfolding in full view.  This is not a sign that something has gone wrong.  It is a sign that something is finally being done.

For decades, politicians avoided this moment because they knew exactly how intense the reaction would be.  They knew that enforcing immigration law would provoke accusations, distortions, and moral condemnation.  They knew that activists, commentators, and political opponents would escalate their rhetoric to the highest possible level.  They knew that the media would frame enforcement as cruelty rather than governance.  And so they chose the easier path: Talk about the problem, but never solve it.

But voters in 2024 rejected that pattern.  They chose President Donald Trump, who promised to walk directly into the confrontation.  And now that it has arrived, voters must not mistake turbulence for failure.

It is important for voters to understand that the difficulty of the moment does not mean the mission is misguided.  In fact, the difficulty is evidence that the mission is real.  When a nation begins enforcing laws that have been neglected for decades, the reaction will be fierce.  Systems that grew comfortable with non‑enforcement resist change.  Political factions that benefited from the status quo fight to preserve it.  Media narratives that once dismissed the issue now amplify every emotional angle.

But none of this changes the underlying truth: A nation cannot remain a nation if its laws are optional.

The American people, and especially the American taxpayer, have borne the cost of decades of inaction.  They have watched public services strained, schools overwhelmed, hospitals burdened, and cities stretched beyond capacity.  They have seen fraud, exploitation, and abuse flourish in the shadows of a system that refused to enforce its own rules.  They have paid, financially, socially, and civically — for the political class’s unwillingness to confront reality.

Enforcement is not cruelty or extremism.  Enforcement is the restoration of the rule of law.  And restoring the rule of law is never easy.

The men and women tasked with carrying out this mission — Border Patrol agents, ICE officers, local police, and federal personnel — understand the difficulty better than anyone.  They are the ones on the front lines, enforcing laws passed by Congress and upheld by the courts.  They are the ones who face danger, criticism, and hostility every day.  Yet they continue to serve with discipline, courage, and commitment.

Their backbone deserves the nation’s respect.  But it also demands something from the voters: backbone of their own.

This leads to the question many Americans are now asking: What is the solution?  How should citizens respond in a moment like this?

The answer is not violence, not shouting, not confrontation in the streets.  The answer is the same answer the Constitution has always provided: the ballot box.

If citizens believe in enforcing federal law, they must express that belief through democratic participation.  They must vote.  They must organize.  They must mobilize their families, their neighbors, their communities.  They must show up in numbers so large as to send a clear message about the direction they want the country to take.

This is the peaceful, lawful form of pushback that defines a constitutional republic.

In 2024, American voters provided President Donald Trump with a clear mandate.  To strengthen this mandate, voters must support politicians who back President Trump, aiming for unprecedented turnout in the 2026 midterm elections — a genuine demonstration of pushback by the American electorate.

The voters who demanded action must now stand firm as that action unfolds.  They must remember why they voted the way they did.  They must remember the decades of avoidance that brought the country to this point.  They must remember that the turbulence of enforcement is far better than the quiet decay of neglect.

Above all, they must remain patient.  Real change takes time.  Real enforcement takes resolve.  Real leadership requires endurance — not just from those in office, but from those who put them there.

To the American voter: By electing President Donald J. Trump in 2024, you delivered a clear mandate for change.  However, this must not be viewed as a singular act.  The responsibility to uphold and reinforce this mandate extends to every election cycle.  It is essential to consistently vote for politicians who support President Trump’s policies at all levels of government.  Through this continued engagement, the American voter demonstrates meaningful pushback, a force that must grow stronger and more resilient with each successive election.

 

The word 'immigration' has become a national disgrace. What once made the country will eventually become its total destruction.

 

How Non-Enforcement Turned Immigration Into a Street War

Michael Smith 1-21-26 patriotpost.us

America didn’t stumble into immigration violence. It arrived here through years of political denial, institutional sabotage, and organized resistance to the Rule of Law.

None of this had to happen.

Not one damn bit of it.

All I see is a series of doom loops that form a death spiral with no good end in sight.

The fatal shooting of a woman during a federal immigration enforcement operation — and the subsequent attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — did not emerge from a sudden surge of cruelty or authoritarian impulse from President Donald Trump, no matter how much the Democrat Left wishes it so.

It is the foreseeable outcome of a long institutional unraveling in which immigration law was first neglected (by Democrats and Republicans alike), then moralized, and finally treated as illegitimate. What makes the present moment especially dangerous is not simply enforcement itself but the organized resistance to it — resistance that deliberately amplifies fear, spreads falsehoods, and guarantees confrontation.

It bears stating plainly: There are laws governing immigration. The state governments and insane “revolutionaries” in Minnesota, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, and California may not like it, but the federal government is not improvising. The actions now provoking protests and interference are grounded in long-standing immigration statutes passed by Congress and repeatedly upheld by the courts. Detention, removal, cooperation with local authorities, and the execution of warrants are not novel inventions of a particular administration; they are the ordinary mechanics of immigration law as written.

Yet for years, the executive branch declined to use those tools at scale, and border enforcement went from a relaxed posture to being completely ignored, asylum claims were allowed to metastasize into permanent presence, and removals slowed to a trickle. The message, however politely phrased, was unmistakable: Immigration law existed largely on paper. That signal was received clearly by migrants, smugglers, advocacy groups, and local governments, and cities adapted accordingly. “Sanctuary” policies were not mere gestures of sympathy; they were operational decisions to obstruct federal enforcement. Local police were barred from honoring detainers, and city agencies were instructed not to share information.

Immigration law was reframed as something quasi-illegitimate — technically federal, but morally suspect and politically optional.

It was never completely about altruism because around this non-enforcement grew an ecosystem awash in federal cash, leading to an explosion of NGOs and advocacy groups whose budgets, staffing, and relevance depended on volume and continuity. Their role was not neutral. They provided housing, transportation, healthcare, legal shielding, political organizing, and — crucially — narrative framing. Enforcement was no longer described as routine application of the law but as “raids,” “kidnappings,” or collective punishment, all to keep the money rolling in.

During the Biden administration, Christian “charities” and NGOs combined to create a burgeoning “coyote” business that was just a form of legal human smuggling. Illegal aliens became a product, a commodity to be exchanged for money, in a modern form of human trade along a federally constructed and protected underground railroad.

When the federal government eventually attempted to reassert control through large-scale operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it did so in an environment primed for resistance. Federal agents were no longer entering cooperative jurisdictions; they were now greeted with hostility and cries of “Gestapo!” and “Nazi!” States and cities that had spent years delegitimizing enforcement now openly refuse to cooperate, and some, like Chicago and Minneapolis, sued to block federal action outright, while others tacitly encouraged defiance by casting ICE agents as racist baby-stealing demons that stalk the night.

Resistance has ceased to be rhetorical and has become operational. Activists organized to track agents, surround vehicles, block streets, and intimidate landlords or employers who cooperated with federal authorities. Protest was no longer expressive; it was tactical. Its purpose was to raise the cost of enforcement — politically, legally, and physically — until enforcement collapsed again. Fear became the accelerant. Communities were deliberately told that “anyone could be next,” that citizens were being “snatched off the street” and deported, that lawful residents were at risk based solely on skin color. These claims were (and are) false, but their accuracy was unimportant because lies work better to induce panic, harden opposition, and provoke confrontation.

When people are convinced they are facing an existential threat, they behave accordingly. Fear and resistance feed fight-or-flight responses, and, like a nuclear reaction, the process becomes self-sustaining, with each increasingly powerful action met with an increasingly powerful reaction.

This dynamic simply did not exist a decade ago. Under Barack Obama, the federal government removed millions of illegal immigrants — earning him the moniker “deporter-in-chief” from activists. Yet America did not see widespread attacks on federal agents or mass street interference with removals.

The difference was not the absence of enforcement; it was the presence of cooperation.

The very cities and states now in open rebellion against enforcement routinely assisted federal authorities then. Immigration law was politically contested but not treated as illegitimate, and that is a distinction that matters. Enforcement carried out within a cooperative framework is boring, bureaucratic, and largely invisible. Enforcement carried out in a climate of organized defiance is volatile. When agents operate amid crowds trained to see them as enemies, when civilians believe they are morally authorized to intervene, and when every encounter is framed as a potential atrocity, the risk of violence — and deadly error — sharply rises.

This is how lawful authority collides with manufactured outrage — and how tragedy follows.

Renee Good was not the target of some grand design. President Trump did not have her killed in a drone attack. She was caught at the intersection of years of institutional failure, narrative escalation, deliberate resistance to the Rule of Law, and a bad decision that ended her life.

What we are witnessing is no longer an immigration debate. It is a test of whether laws passed by Congress can be enforced at all in jurisdictions that have decided those laws are immoral. But pretending that the law itself is the problem — or that it can be willfully ignored or doesn’t exist — leads to a death spiral of escalation and failure.

There are only three possible endpoints: a sustained reassertion of federal authority supported by cooperation; a formal surrender of immigration law to local moral discretion; or a continued escalation of street-level chaos punctuated by preventable deaths.

 

The last three paragraphs of this short important post asks serious questions.

 

What was that about leftists and sanctuaries?

Eric Utter | January 21, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Some recent incidents suggest it's now boiling down to good versus evil.

The staggering hypocrisy and moral confusion of those on The Left continues unabated.

They believe that feds have no right to enter the “sanctuary cities” they create and support for illegals, but that a Christian sanctuary is a legitimate target for themselves and their Marxist comrades.

This psychopaths OWN VIDEO shows countless people asking him to leave -

It also shows him screaming at young girls, telling people to leave their own worship service, and chasing them into cars.

He absolutely should be charged.pic.twitter.com/V9X6qq553s https://t.co/v34MOUSdUu

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) January 20, 2026

I used to occasionally trot out this line for fun: “Gypsies, tramps and thieves … welcome to the Democratic National Convention!” Now this group, numbers swelled by thugs, Marxists, and violent criminals, will come to you and for you. They will block public roads, deface public property, chase you down, pull you out of your car … and invade your churches (not mosques!) to intimidate and harass you.

They do not believe in standards of behavior, as they don’t wish their behavior to be judged. Yet they are obsessed with judging those with whom they don’t agree, branding them bigots, racists, misogynists, hateful, deplorables, fascists, and Nazis. They exist to destroy, not build. Many don’t have kids because they aborted (destroyed) them. They are their religion. The Church of Satan would be the only one in which they’d be comfortable. They are … the most misguided people in the world.

This is not the first time I have stated this, and I am not naïve enough to believe it will change or open any minds, but what we are witnessing in real time is a growing contest between good and evil. Many will think that assertion to be hyperbolic or too simply stated, but it is not. Nor does it give me any pleasure to say this.

Yes, there are some gray areas in life, but there is also, unquestionably, good and evil. God wants us to choose the former, the Devil wants us to opt for the latter. Though many may not know or admit it, much of the Democrat party, and many of its fellow radicals in various institutions -- and on the streets — have gone all in on the latter.

If we want to make our cities and streets safe again, our institutions trusted again, and our leaders held accountable again, we have to start now. We have to acknowledge that there must be a limit to chaos, immorality, and destruction. Or we will wake up someday soon to find we have aborted our country.

As someone once said — or should have — “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Do we want that on our consciences? Is that the world we wish to leave for our kids?

Destruction or construction? Liberty or cravenness and servitude? Tolerance of virtually anything or some standards of decency? Free market capitalism or the economic model of North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba? Lies or truth?

What will be our legacy?

 

Please take the time to pay particular attention to this post! It is extremely important - to become aware of the hidden chaos attacking our once great Republic!

 

The Quiet Coup of Weaponized Immigration

Douglas Andrews 1-20-26 patriotpost.us

If you think the chaos you’re seeing in the streets of Minneapolis is disorganized and without any purpose beyond knee-jerk opposition to Donald Trump, think again.

When you see chaos in our streets, like you’re now seeing in Minneapolis, it’s only natural to sell it short. To shrug your shoulders and dismiss it as mere chaos. Real chaos, after all, lacks order and organization, and that’s certainly what this looks like.

Looks, though, can be deceiving. What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is both organized and purposeful — organized by the Left and purposefully designed to wreck the United States.

Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer lays this out in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

Schweizer rightly credits President Donald Trump with having sealed off our southern border, but he notes that our focus has been mostly on the economic, cultural, and criminal aspects of mass illegal immigration. Schweizer agrees that these are all important issues, but he focuses on another, more fundamental aspect of this scourge that brings together otherwise unaffiliated groups in a common cause: weaponizing immigration to kneecap the most powerful nation on earth — or, to put it in more deceptively familiar terms, “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

As Schweizer put it last night in an interview with Fox News’s Mark Levin, this weaponization “is how foreign adversaries and neighbors like Mexico, or countries like China or like the Muslim Brotherhood, are using mass migration as a political weapon against us” — whether they come from the failed state of Mexico or from Communist China or from Muslim Somalia. “They are bringing with them not only themselves, their family, and their culture. They’re also bringing with them political networks, and these political networks are hostile to the United States.”

We have sealed the border, which is vitally important. But these networks and these radicals continue to operate inside the United States … and they are responsible for a lot of the chaos in our streets — the violent anti-ICE protests, the other protests that we’ve seen taking place. This is an organized effort to undermine America. So we need to think not just about immigration as an issue, but about weaponized immigration and how our foreign adversaries are using it against us.

But don’t take Schweizer’s word for it. Here’s how one Mexican official, a top aide of leftist Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, put it in an official 2024 Mexican government report: “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. … We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.”

When viewed in terms of mass illegal migration and in terms of birthright citizenship, the “theory” part of “replacement theory” becomes a misnomer. There’s no theory to it. It’s happening, and it’s been happening. It’s Replacement Fact.

As Schweizer notes: “The biggest years of naturalization of new immigrants in the United States have all been reelection years for Democrats: 1996 [for Bill Clinton], 2012 for Barack Obama, and 2024 for Joe Biden. Why is that? Because they know that new immigrants tend to vote 80-85% for Democrats. So what they did inside government in those years … is they dumbed down the rules for citizenship, they would ignore hundreds of thousands of documents related to criminal background checks on new immigrants, they wouldn’t worry about language requirements. Why? Because they wanted to mint new voters.”

And here’s the takeaway: “You have this alliance between foreign adversaries who want to undermine the United States, and Democrats who domestically see this as an opportunity for themselves to gain a political advantage. … That’s why they’re fighting so hard in the streets right now: to prevent deportations.”

What are the solutions? First, continue to deport these people. No one should be rewarded for breaking the laws of our land. And second, dry up their incentives for coming here and for staying here, starting with the immigration loophole that allows so-called refugees to begin soaking up American taxpayer welfare as soon as they enter the country, as opposed to having to wait five years like normal immigration law dictates.

This is a mess of our own making. And our adversaries — both here and abroad — are rubbing their palms together with glee as they see what’s happening in Minneapolis.