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| Screenshot from the ICE Detainee Locator |
That, above, is my screenshot from searching for a recent Detainee, Ian Andre Roberts, detained by America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) people.
To the progressives, the knee-jerk reaction is to support people like Roberts. Just as they did for the M-13 gang member, multiple felon, wife beater, drug dealer, human trafficker, Kilmar Albrego Garcia. Remember him? Who they went down to the wire for.
The progressives say these people, when arrested, have been "snatched" off the streets, by "masked thugs", who are "America's Gestapo" and that the detainees are then "disappeared", no clue where they're held.
Well, the opposite narrative is this:
- That ICE are carrying out lawful duties. They are arresting illegal aliens, the majority who have committed crimes in addition to the illegal entry to the United States.
- That ICE would not need to "snatch" them off the streets if Sanctuary states would cooperate and allow ICE agents to pick them up from prisons, where they're often detained, but released when they learn of ICE searching for them.
- That ICE are masked because they are being Doxxed by radical Leftists, often by Antifa, black-blocked and masked themselves. The far left anti ICE gangs have shown they're more than willing to kill. To kill to stop the lawful activity of ICE.
- That ICE post, same day, information as to where the detainees are being held.
- That far from being "disappeared", there is a same-day public notice of their whereabouts, online and easy to use.
That's what the screenshot above is all about. After I learned of the arrest of Ian Andre Roberts, a School Superintendent (!), I learned of the existence of the Detainee Tracking System on the ICE website. I found it super easy to use, and found Roberts' information in about ten seconds. It says where he is detained, and gives information of use to "family and legal representatives".
"Disappeared" does not look like this!
- Similarly the Left is always moaning that there's "no transparency" about arrests and deportations. Again, that's wrong, because there is. There's an ICE website, updated daily, and posted on X, with all the detaineed cases and all the reasons for them.
It really is the case that the Dems don't want to know. Gavin Newsome, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Hakeen Jeffreys, all the senior Dems who groan and moan, just want to keep saying: "ICE Bad" -- that it "snatches" people off the street, that it does so with "no due process" and that it "disappears" people.
That is not happening. But if they admitted that -- and surely they must know -- their broader narrative, which is Orange Man Bad, collapses. Everything, but everything Orange Man does is Bad, so they cannot admit that there's a system, a system that works, for the detention of criminal illegals in the United States. For which, let's recall, the public voted in November 2024.
Vince Dao has the full story of Ian Andre Roberts here.
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ADDED: By the way, I've been to the United States often. As a non-US citizen. I'm clearly aware, very clearly aware, that if I overstay my visa I will be deported, fined, made to pay my way home, or all three. There's no question in my mind about that. I'm sure most people are aware of that and make sure they don't overstay.
But there's some people, like Ian Andre Roberts above, who seem to think they can overstay with impunity. That they are above the law. And haven't we heard, ad nauseum, by the Left that "no-one is above the law".
Roberts was told by TWO immigration courts that he had overstayed and had to be deported. He appealed and lost the appeal. And still he stayed. And then committed felonies. Now Trump's ICE is going to deport him. And the Left loses its mind.
The Reps say to Dems: if you don't like the laws, change them. Change them via the legislature, in Congress, as is the system. You can't just decide you don't like some laws and choose to ignore them. And insist that all others ignore them too. I'm with that approach. There are laws and they must be enforced. Don't like them? Change them. End of.
Yet what's happening is attacks on ICE. Supported and enabled by the most seniour Democrats. Who are clearly encouraging anti-Trump, ANTIFA actors to take matters into their own hands and to shoot at ICE officers. That's hapening right now, right in front of our faces. No matter the amount of dilly-dallying and deflecting that the Left go on with.
We live, not just in Interesting, but in Dangerous Times.
