Democrats have tried pulling cheap stunt after cheap stunt in response to the ICE immigration sweeps, from showing up at detention centers to obstruct federal law enforcement officials, aggressively interrupting DHS press conferences as if they didn’t know any better, to even going so far as to travel to El Salvador to plead for the release of a deported, suspected human smuggler and alleged MS-13 gang member.
More recently, we saw Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) try to intimidate their way into an ICE processing center in the Big Apple — the same one where one of their mayoral candidates, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, was arrested the day prior, only to get shut down by ICE NY Deputy Field Office Director Bill Joyce:
ICE Deputy Field Office Director Bill Joyce, with reporters and others looking on, met with the representatives on the building’s ground level. He told the officials that some immigrants had slept overnight on the floor and benches on the 10th floor.
Joyce said the site was not a detention center, which members of Congress are legally allowed to inspect, but rather an off-limits “processing center” where migrants facing potential removal are temporarily held.
But despite their campaign to derail President Trump’s illegal immigration policies and to win back voters who drifted to Donald Trump in 2024 over big-ticket issues like this one, illegal immigration continues to be an issue where Trump’s message resonates with voters. As for Democrats, it remains a losing issue even among around 25% of their own party, according to a “megapoll” taken by Stack Data Strategy, the results of which were shared with Politico:
A new 8,000-person megapoll shared with Playbook offers important lessons for both parties ahead of next year’s midterms.[…]There was even greater Democratic (and independent) support for Trump’s approach to immigration, suggesting opposition attacks on his controversial deportations are not widely resonating. In total, 49 percent of voters approved of the administration’s handling of immigration, vs. 33 percent who disapproved. Strikingly, a quarter of all Kamala Harris 2024 voters approved of the president’s immigration policy. That’s quite a number.
It was noted that the poll “ended just before the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that provoked Trump to send in the National Guard. It’s untested how those events affected voters’ views.” But I suspect the Los Angeles riots would only strengthen existing viewpoints, considering how pretty much no one outside of delusional Democrat politicos, the activist left, and their mainstream media allies thinks rioting, looting, arson, and assaulting law enforcement officers are effective ways to win over hearts and minds (as we saw during the Antifa/BLM-led riots in the summer of 2020).
Gee, ya think?
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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