The time has come for all of us to take a step back and look at what is happening here in our country. Innocent people are being killed, people with no criminal history or background. They are being rounded up like cattle and sent to holding facilities without an arrest warrant or due process for doing nothing more than expressing an opinion.
The Constitution says that every person has a right to due process, the freedom of speech and the freedom to express their opinions. But lately this freedom has been taken from us—whether you’re an American citizen, an immigrant who’s here legally, or someone who is here illegally doesn’t seem to make a difference. You can be picked up on the street for no reason, with no probable cause, and taken to a detention facility and shipped out of this country without a hearing or any due process.
Many Americans supported the Trump administration when he said he was going to remove illegal aliens who are dangerous criminals and felons, but this has gone far beyond those goals. People who are here legally or illegally—if they look different or have an accent or have a foreign background—can be detained with no due process or no probable cause. This has to stop! Innocent people are being killed by ICE and their excessive use of force. We cannot tolerate this any longer. Please let your elected representatives, and other officials know that you do not support this. We must stop Donald Trump and his minions from desecrating our Constitution. Only then can we have a free and tolerant America!
John Hadley
Lompoc
This article appears in Jan 15-22, 2026.
If the 2024 election offered any message, it was that the American people want to see our immigration laws enforced, and our borders secured. If Biden had not allowed and effectively invited millions of illegals into the country, we would not be having our current turmoil. The same people who supported an open border are now fighting the enforcement of our immigration laws by summoning mobs to try and block enforcement. The loss of life is on them.
A quick internet check reveals there are between 70,000-90,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota. Another bit of research says that Texas has about 2.1 million illegal immigrants and Florida has 1.2 million, yet I don’t see reports of thousands of heavily armed federal goons on the streets or people being shot in their cars in Dallas, El Paso or Tallahassee. Wonder why?
Michael:
I’d be curious what’s in it for you defending illegal immigration? The self defense the federal agents engaged in is what you see. Do you really think the millions of illegals you referred to don’t have a portion of their society engaged in crime, the kind you covertly refer to the federal agents were doing? No, just because you don’t see murder, human trafficking, organized crime, extortion, racketeering, prostitution, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. This goes on behind closed doors. It is my true hope, our Commander-in-Chief does attack the transnational foreign terrorist organizations just south of our border we call “cartels.” People living south of our border live in fear of them too. Their members come to our country under the cover of darkness and bring with them their connections to these cartels. Their goal, just like the mafia, is to subvert government and government workers. Do you really want to live in a California where you have to slip a $50 bill to the teller at the DMV just register your car? Keep bringing these illegals in and you can vet it will happen. They will threaten public workers or bribe them until they run public agencies. I’d recommend you watch a movie called “Traffic” if you don’t believe or, better yet, take a tour in your local prison. You’ll get a good idea how gnarly organized crime is in California. Otherwise, just go back to your coffee and New York Times.
Mr. Fly is too wrapped up in his movies and end of days scenario to see that what is happening in Minnesota is morally reprehensible. Mr. Donegan has no excuse condoning such activity.
Perhaps in those states they don’t have organized online systems directing mobs of hysterical activists to intercept and attempt to block ICE operations, and have local law enforcement authorities who are willing to protect federal officers from violent attacks, instead of just citing “sanctuary” laws as a reason they can’t interfere. And I suppose that the absence of cheerleading by Democratic state leaders for efforts to obstruct the enforcement of immigration laws, might also help, and allow enforcement to proceed peacefully.
Not so sure about that.
https://www.statesman.com/news/article/austin-ice-protest-city-hall-21304902.php
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/protesters-in-kyle-demand-ice-leave-city-amid-recent-operations
https://youtu.be/zR9T2vQO2hU?si=CCj34e2tijUKxydj
John:
Further, the people who are defending illegal immigration are the same liberals concerned about reproductive rights, marriage equality, etc. The vast majority of the illegals that were pouring into our country are all practicing members of a global religion based in Rome that does all it can to ensure reproductive rights, marriage equality, and women’s rights are all outlawed. Further, this religion is staffed by a cast of literal pedophiles and whom this religion is practically bankrupted paying reparations to the children victimized by this sick cast of clergy. If libs aren’t careful, they may wake up in the near future tied to a stake and put on fire just as this very religion did in the not so distant past. Their entire hope is to reestablish a resurrected Holy Roman Empire. It’s very pontiff is American and the majority of the Justices in the SCOTUS are also members of this religion. These illegals are the foot soldiers of this religion and liberals are nothing more than useful idiots.
God help our nation’s Protestants and Protestant values
*caste
“A Catholic priest is facing additional charges this week regarding allegations he sexually abused four children in San Luis Obispo County.
Father Theodore Gabrielli, 61, is now facing 38 criminal counts including aggravated sexual assault. All of the children were under the age of 14 when the alleged abuse began.”
I rest my case.
Throw the book at this freak. His victims need to sue the church he worked for, out of existence. This is the organized religion that the majority of the illegal aliens that cross our southern border follow. Their presence and weekly tithes ensure their religion can defend itself when yet another one of their clergy are arrested for violating children under their care. When liberals, like the one shot to death trying to run over and kill a federal agent doing their job recently, are willing to die for illegal immigration, what they are saying is they are willing to die for a corrupt organized religion whose ordained and celibate clergy, can prey on families and children and whose ultimate goal is to turn the United States into just another outpost of a ressurected Holy Roman Empire. Naturally, this would entail putting millions of American atheists, agnostics, and Protestants to the stake and lighting them on fire, as they have in the recent past. So sure, why not just bring millions of these illegal aliens into the United States.