We Told You So
From Minnesota to DC, the costs of mass migration are taking a dreadful toll.
In the span of about a week, the nation not only witnessed the tragic downside of unsustainable foreign migration, but the lengths to which the most unscrupulous will go in defending it.
The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington D.C. is a ‘resettled’ Afghan—one of roughly 86,000 that were granted ‘temporary immigration status’ under the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program.1 One victim has subsequently passed away.
Half-way across the country, a massive welfare fraud scandal (from child care and nutrition to Medicaid-funded housing and autism programs) that in normal times would surely bring down the leaders who looked the other way, embarrasses the state of Minnesota—again.
But removing people from office isn’t enough for a disturbing new ‘assassination culture’ that has reared its ugly anarchist head. We’ve had a string of attacks on conservatives, law enforcement and, just as troubling, public support for accused murderers like Luigi Mangione.2
Despite it all (and legal precedent), blue state politicians are still encouraging lawlessness in their efforts to thwart the Trump administration’s crackdown on urban crime and illegal immigration.3 This has now gone way beyond so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ and right into dereliction of duty by elected officials flirting with mutiny.4
Six Democrat lawmakers who appeared in a video attacking the deployment of the Guard to violent inner cities were not encouraging members to disobey unlawful orders—they were demanding that they disobey legal ones.5 A particular unlawful order could have been cited, it was not.6
Regardless of what you think about the chain of command (when the Sarge says ‘take the hill,’ you don’t want a debate in the foxhole), urban crime has risen significantly. A BOJ National Crime Victimization Survey shows that inner city violent crime rates have increased by 61% from 2019 to 2024, a direct result of the same politicians now interfering with efforts to stop it.7
Of course, where there’s Democrats, there’s identity politics so linking the deployment of National Guard troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to racism can’t be far behind.
The demagogic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona declared that when President Trump “says things like third world countries…what he’s saying is he doesn’t want brown people in our country.”8 Which is I guess is the same thing as saying all brown people live in third world countries.
Apparently, he hasn’t been to Minnesota where an unprecedented migration of ‘brown people’ from Somalia is at the heart of a corruption scandal that threatens to finish off the state’s reputation already tarnished in the aftermath of historic rioting in 2020.
But you can’t say we didn’t warn ‘ya.
