At first, I couldn't understand why there was such a large, vocal, and popular opposition to what seemed like a fundamental policy -- the rounding up and deportation of violent criminals that are in the country illegally. On the surface, this seems like something everybody could get behind, in the name of public safety. This isn't the case.

Like everything, this has become a polarizing political issue. Trump won the 2024 election on basically two issues: Biden's open border policy that allowed millions of undocumented immigrants into the country, and inflation running high under Biden. The immigration issue and Trump's promise to stop illegal immigration and deport criminal illegals was very popular among all but the most radical.

Fast forward to today. ICE raids are seeing a concerted and well-funded opposition. The raids are filmed by citizen journalists. The raids are condemned and vilified by Democratic politicians. ICE is labeled Nazus and the Gestapo by political leaders. This drums up support in more mainstream America. The mobs of people grow and become more confrontational. This forces ICE to make their raids with more and more agents that are more heavily armed to protect themselves from the mobs.

Every illegal immigrant that gets handcuffed gets filmed by dozens. The weeping wife or girlfriend, the crying baby. The shouts of "leave him alone!", the interview of the co-worker or neighbor on the news saying how peaceful the arrestee was, the resistance to arrest that is met with more forceful action by law enforcement to subdue, the whistles screams and chaos of the mobs -- it all gets in video and put out to the world.

The more resistance that can be gathered, the more chaos and the more that law enforcement gets painted in a bad light. This happens on every detainee. And there are how many illegal immigrants in the country? 15? 20? 30? 40 million? Nobody knows.

Here is where the socialist strategy is winning. They know the average person is going to grow weary of seeing this on the news every night. They just want it to go away and have things get back to normal. The strategy is working. What was once a very common sense and popular agenda item - the deportation of illegal criminals -- is slowly eroding in support from the average person. The investment by socialist and social engineers it's working. The shooting of that woman in Minneapolis was a very good thing for them. They don't care about her personally, but they are ecstatic that it happened. That was just what they needed to drum up more support for their cause.

The socialists have turned the conversation from the thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records, the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors lost in the country, the rampant fraud in social programs and turned it into a one-off incident involving an ICE officer in which a legal citizen was killed.

The strategy is working brilliantly. Americans are going to grow weary and forget that there are untold millions that are in the country illegally and won't care if they are deported, or not.