The Danger Of DHS Backing Down In Minneapolis

At the time of this piece going out, it appears that there will be a drawdown of some federal immigration agents who are currently in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area. The reduction in force comes after the Border Patrol-involved shooting of Alex Pretti.

While the shooting is still under investigation, this time it looks as though the bad PR from the incident has resulted in the Department of Homeland Security implementing significant changes. To be clear, the agents leaving are with Border Patrol. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will still be active in the region.

I talked about how we can look to the recent past to learn to not give in to the leftist mob during an interview with Real America’s Voice:

The fact is President Donald Trump has a mandate to carry out mass deportations. Early on in his second term, the Left organized to resist, sometimes violently, those deportation efforts. Whether it was Los Angeles, Chicago, or Minneapolis, the street activists have done nearly everything to grind the operations to a halt (Don’t forget about the attacks on ICE facilities in Texas last year). Those agitators have been given tacit or full-throated support from Democrats, resulting in even more confrontations that have become deadly.

On social media, anti-ICE activists are going as far as to say that, “[M]inneapolis could be our Fallujah.” Never mind how the battles for Fallujah turned out for the insurgents, that is the mindset many on the Left are adopting.

In 2020, the BLM riots in Minneapolis were the blueprint for other leftists to follow. It showed them if they can put enough pressure on police through violence, they can force officers out of their own buildings. The evacuation and arson attack on the 3rd Precinct was the most damaging thing for policing in modern history. Minneapolis is still dealing with those disastrous decisions to this day.

Should the anti-DHS contingent sense a victory with a drawdown of federal agents from Minneapolis, it will only embolden others across the country to carry out similar tactics, like in 2020.

Speaking with Minneapolis police officers during the recent unrest in Minnesota…