John Law (9:54)
First up, let's start with what the right is saying. Many on the right support an impartial investigation into DHS's actions in Minnesota and the tactics of activists. Some say President Trump was smart to put Homan in charge of operations. Others argue the deportation effort must continue despite protester resistance. The Washington examiner editorial board called for an investigation into the Minnesota shootings. Senate Democrats are coalescing around a number of proposals, including a demand that the Department of Homeland Security cooperate with state investigations of the deaths. Considering Minnesota's complete inability to police massive welfare fraud in its own jurisdiction, the refusal of state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with immigration agencies and the obvious bias of the state's top law enforcement official. Such a state led investigation is an obvious non starter, the board wrote. People across the country, not just in Minnesota, nevertheless deserve a full account of what happened. Did Goode and Preddy encounter them randomly while they were going about their daily routine and then suddenly decide to intervene? Of course not. Were they rather part of larger groups that have been tracking, following and actively interfering with federal law enforcement? What are the goals of these groups? What are their tactics? The board said. Unfortunately, President Donald Trump's Justice Department does not have the credibility to conduct an investigation of the shootings on its own. An independent party could be appointed within the Justice Department to lead the investigations, a person approved by Democratic and Republican senators in the Hill, Robbie Soav wrote. Send in Tom Homan. Behind the scenes, there's tremendous frustration among immigration enforcement officers and other Republican officials with the job that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is doing. Under her leadership, immigration enforcement has focused on areas where there is maximum non compliance from local Democratic authorities, soav wrote. You can argue that these are necessary fights that the administration is picking, but Homan prefers to actually accomplish the job of deporting large numbers of criminal illegal aliens. The administration has a short window to restore confidence in their operations, which they must do. The American people voted for Trump to carry out deportations of illegal immigrants who are gang members and fraudsters and a net drain on communities, soav wrote. They did not vote for and will not tolerate a permanent new police state where American citizens are killed with impunity and the administration turns around and lies about the circumstances of those killings. In Fox News, Mike Davis said surrender is not an option for ice's Minnesota mission. After days of Democratic spurred riots, President Trump and Minnesota governor Tim Walz had a phone call on Monday. Trump described it as very good and Walls expressed a desire to work together. This detente may be short lived as leftist agitators have now turned on Walls and directed their protests to his office. Regardless, ICE's withdrawal from Minneapolis would be a disaster and cannot occur, davis wrote. Immigration is squarely under the federal domain. Indeed, over a decade ago the Obama Justice Department successfully sued Arizona for attempting to independently enforce federal immigration law. Now ISIS and Minneapolis. Pursuant to this core power, ICE is not the problem in Minneapolis. Leftist violence is. Florida and Texas each have far more people and illegals than does Minnesota. We do not hear about the tumult in those states for one reason, stellar state leadership, Davis said. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis respect the Constitution, including ICE's law enforcement authority. These governors do not use Holocaust references and they do not tell the good men and women of federal law enforcement to get out of their cities. And in sharp contrast to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fraud, Alright, that is it for what the right is saying. Which brings us to what the left is saying. Many on the left argue that President Trump's immigration tactics are to blame for rising tensions in Minnesota. Some say that the reforms that Democrats are seeking are important, but only one step toward lasting change. Others call for accountability for federal agents involved in the shootings. In the Wall Street Journal, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls criticized the un American assault on Minnesota. Everyone wants to see our immigration laws enforced. That isn't what's happening in Minnesota. In recent weeks, masked agents have abducted children. They have separated children from their parents. They have racially profiled off duty police officers. They have aggressively pulled people over and demanded to see their papers. They've broken into homes of elderly citizens without warrants to drag them outside in freezing temperatures, walsh said. That isn't effective law enforcement. It isn't following the rule of law. It's chaos, it's illegal, and it's un American. I have repeatedly appealed to President Trump to lower the temperature, but he refuses. I fear that his hope for the tension between ICE agents and the communities they're ransacking to boil over that he wants to see more chaos on your TV screens, protests turn into riots and more people get hurt, waltz wrote. The assault on our communities is not necessary to enforce our immigration laws. We don't have to choose between open borders and whatever the hell this is. Mr. Trump can and must end this unlawful, violent and chaotic campaign, and we can and must rebuild an immigration enforcement system that is secure, accountable and humane. In Ms. Now, Hays Brown argued it's time for Democrats to start dismantling ice. The Trump administration is now on its back foot, and even Republican lawmakers have raised questions about whether Preddy really deserved to die, as though the first inklings of shame have finally begun creeping back into their bodies. The swiftly shifting political headwinds have left Democratic lawmakers who had seemed sure to begrudgingly fund DHS later this week looking to press their advantage. Given the stakes and what is likely to be a brief window for action, there's little room for error or delay to prevent the rot within DHS from metastasizing further, Brown said. Noem herself is an understandable target given her visibility and callousness. When confronted with evidence of DHS agents, culpability an undue focus on Noem, though, would be an ironic shadow of the conservative ethos, looking to solve problems at the individual level rather than taking on the system as Republicans ignored as they targeted Noem's predecessor, Biden administration DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas. She is dutifully following orders coming from the president, brown wrote. While two thirds of the upper chamber voting to show Nome the door would make for a stunning political rebuke, it would be all too easy to confuse that shiny trophy as a true victory. The reforms pushed by Senator Chris Murphy and other Democrats are likewise important, but, as Murphy himself recognized, still only scratched the surface of how we reached this point in the first place. In Bloomberg, Noah Feldman argued federal agents must face the rule of law. The law on the books is extremely clear that Minnesota prosecutors and law enforcement have the authority to investigate and criminally charge Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have not acted in a way that is necessary and proper to carry out their official duties. That certainty includes unjustified shootings. Legal immunity from state prosecution for federal officers arises only if they are found to have been carrying out their duties in that manner. The federal government and the Trump administration have no legal leg to stand on in attempting to impede the investigations, for courts should affirm that, Feldman said. No criminal justice system catches every criminal, and no just criminal justice system convicts every criminal who is apprehended. There is room for error and resource limitations. What there is no room for is obvious impunity and lack of accountability. Impunity is worse when it's a government official who violates the law. The very definition of a police state is that the law applies to ordinary people but not to the police, which in this context includes ice. All right, let's head over to Isaac for his take.
