Op-ed: Progressive States That Care Not for Laws or the Border Are the Ones Tearing Us Apart

The whole nation has been watching the anti-ICE “protests” playing out on television, and I cannot help but be struck by the multiplicity of ironies.

Once upon a time — and not so long ago — immigration enforcement actions took place at worksites, in Los Angeles and many other locations, with such regularity that no one would have paused to bat an eye.

Now they are the cause of riots and assaults on federal officers and property, while state and local governments slow-walk law enforcement responses for something as fundamental as protecting the safety of those officers.

It is as if these levels of government have a detached notion of “federalism” that runs only one way: they can levy demands on the federal government, usually involving massive amounts of money and other assistance, while recognizing no obligations in return.

What we are seeing, although it has become all too pervasive in progressive hot spots, is not normal.

It is the confluence of permissive policies toward crime and violence in blue-run cities and states, with the flooding of the border that took place over the entire length of the Biden administration.

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[Read the rest at the New York Post]