Negotiating Greenland from Denmark is Merely Deja Vu. The U.S. Took the Virgin Islands the Same Way.

Townhall 

The left and its comrades in the MSM are exhibiting faux outrage that President Donald Trump wants to strong-arm Denmark into giving Greenland to the U.S. But they never mention that the U.S. took the Virgin Islands from Denmark the same way.

The U.S. purchased the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix) from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million. The U.S. pressured Denmark with threats of military occupation, fearful the Germans would take control of the islands during World War I. The islands held strategic value for protecting Caribbean approaches, shipping lanes and accessing the newly opened Panama Canal.

Similarly, Greenland's location at the intersection of North America, Europe and the Arctic makes it pivotal for U.S. security interests. It is a key naval chokepoint for monitoring and restricting Russian submarine and surface movements from the Arctic into the Atlantic. It would also diminish Chinese investments and influence, such as attempting airports, mining stakes and naval activity.

Pituffik Space Base in Greenland hosts critical U.S. ballistic missile early-warning radars, space surveillance and supports missile defense. Full U.S. ownership would ease further bases, troop increases and infrastructure without allied negotiations.

Denmark lacks the capacity to defend Greenland adequately. U.S. ownership would secure the region, prevent adversary footholds and extend a Monroe Doctrine-like dominance in the "near-abroad" Arctic.

Critics contend that the U.S. just wants to acquire the country for selfish reasons, such as its rich natural resources. But they omit the rest of the story. Greenland is home to the largest deposits of rare earth elements outside of China, which are essential for electronics, batteries and defense tech, EVs and wind turbines. Access to these would reduce U.S. reliance on China-dominated supply chains.

And yes, it would give the U.S. other economic advantages. The Northwest Passage near Greenland would allow for trade routes between Asia and Europe and North America, potentially twice as fast on average as going through the Suez Canal in Panama.

While the MSM is quick to cite biased polls showing Greenlanders don’t want to be acquired by the U.S., they leave out data from those polls showing that Greenlanders no longer want to be under Denmark’s control. A poll from Verian found that 56 percent want independence.

Nor does the MSM cite a poll from Patriot Polling, which found that 57.3 percent of Greenlanders want the U.S. to acquire their country. The polling company, which was founded by a student who currently attends an Ivy League school, said they were labeled the most accurate pollster in the 2024 Presidential Election after correctly projecting the outcome in all states. Nate Silver, who previously ran the pollster ranking site FiveThirtyEight (and is not conservative), ranked Patriot Polling second out of 41 pollsters for accuracy in 2024. ActiVote ranked Patriot Polling sixth out of 136 pollsters for accuracy in 2024. 

Europeans are piling on, opposing the acquisition, but the MSM fails to report that Europeans have long harbored resentment against the U.S., so their reaction is predictable. They resent the U.S. for its status as the most powerful country in the world, with a military defense massive enough to protect itself, unlike them, so they resent anything perceived as giving the U.S. more power. What they naively miss is that if the U.S. doesn’t take over Greenland, there is a significant chance Russia or China will, jeopardizing the security of nearby European countries. But they are selfishly and shortsightedly looking at economic interests — they want to continue harvesting Greenland’s rare minerals for green energy programs.

So, where does the attempt to acquire Greenland stand now? Trump initially escalated the pressure in mid-January by threatening 10 percent tariffs that would rise to 25 percent on exports from Denmark and several European countries, including Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, unless they supported the acquisition. Trump also hinted at military options last month, with White House statements noting that "utilizing the U.S. military is always an option."

On January 21, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and announced a "framework of a future deal" on Greenland and the broader Arctic region. He immediately withdrew the tariff threat scheduled for February 1, calling the talks "very productive."

Due to the faux outrage, Trump may be backing down on fully acquiring Greenland. He might run into Congressional opposition to the purchase. So, if not an outright purchase, his future deal is rumored to include a U.S. "Golden Dome" missile defense system for Greenland. It is a multi-layered, next-generation homeland missile defense initiative announced by Trump in early 2025. It would protect the U.S. from a wide range of aerial threats, including ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles and potentially other advanced projectiles such as drones or space-launched threats from adversaries like Russia, China, North Korea or Iran, using radar and early warning expansions at existing sites like Pituffik Space Base.

The program would provide enhanced U.S. military access, such as sovereign U.S. bases in limited pockets of Greenland, modeled on UK bases in Cyprus. It may also include measures to block Russian and Chinese influence, such as no drilling or mining deals with adversaries and boosting NATO Arctic security.

Russia and China have the second-most powerful military forces after the U.S., while European countries have insignificant protection of their own. Europeans need to see the bigger picture. As the top global military power, the U.S. has some responsibility (and not as some massive “world’s policeman,” as the left falsely spins it) to stop the spread of communism and authoritarian leaders coming after the rest of us peaceful free countries, just like we did in WW1 and WW2 — I don’t hear anyone complaining about our involvement there freeing the world, and acquiring the Virgin Islands.

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The Democrats’ Empty Threats of Oppression

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The left has decided that, if they ever take power again, they’re going to launch another pogrom against conservatives, but this time they’re going to be even more ruthless than the last time. Arrests, prosecutions, even killings, all directed at us, are on the table because we are the designated bad people. That’s why they call us Nazis, because it’s OK to kill Nazis, and in fact, they are morally obligated to do so. You’re seeing this crazy talk more and more lately, and if it wasn’t so potentially deadly – mostly for the people doing the threatening – it would be hilarious. The sight of the Soros-shrimping district attorney in Philadelphia announcing that he’s going to hunt down ICE agents and those who love them no doubt provides a rich bounty of onanistic pleasure for the evil and stupid mouth breathers of the left, but pulling it off is another matter.

So, let’s look at the mechanics of what might happen, assuming they win in 2028 and have the power of the feds at their disposal again. We weren’t really prepared for what they would do in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when they conspired to frame President Trump and many others, as well as persecute the J6 heroes – oh wait, I thought people who violently protested (though most J6ers walked around taking selfies) were heroes. Anyway, we’re now very aware of the potential for the kind of oppression they are pleasuring themselves at the thought of, and experience has stiffened the spines of many (though certainly not all) conservatives. This time, we will be much more ready, mentally and physically, to deal with them, trying to make their fascist fantasies come true.

Let me give you the short version of how this is going to work – it’s not going to work out the way they hope. And they’ll be lucky if it doesn’t spark the kind of chaos that they’re just not going to come back from. Keep in mind, as we examine this issue, exactly who has the guns, the training, and the testosterone. 

I like our odds.

Now, the first line of defense is political. Even if we lose the presidency, we might have the House or the Senate. That’s a roadblock right there, but the Democrats might not have the stomach for the big talk of their media loudmouths. A lot of folks on the left would love to try to take vengeance on the majority of Americans who are normal for the crime of intentionally participating in their own governance, but not all Democrats would be down for that. To win the 2028 election, while there is a huge advantage to being the craziest guy in the primaries, the candidate who can promise to bring what passes for normality back would have an edge in the general. Now, that was President Eggplant’s strategy – or, rather, the strategy of the people who manipulated President Eggplant – and he certainly didn’t abide by that. But a Democrat administration in 2028 will have to deal with the fact that the American people are not looking for the persecution of Republicans – Exhibit A would be the guy sitting in the Oval Office right now, who was helped rather than harmed by Democrats’ incessant and ham-handed attempts to frame him. So, the first line of defense is manned (excuse the misgendering) by Democrats, and it’s entirely possible a new Democrat administration will buck those baying for blood and focus on ruining America in different ways besides jailing the GOP opposition.

But don’t bet on that. It’s a possibility, but it’s not a certainty. Don’t rely on them, putting political savvy ahead of leftist bloodlust to forgo your duty to buy guns and ammunition.

The next problem for pulling off their scheme is the law, such as it is. We have to take into account the fact that Democrat federal court judges ignore the law whenever it’s inconvenient, but the law still exists to some extent. Well, at least it would exist until they end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court, but that would be an escalation that would make the law irrelevant. At that point, we would probably see things settled under US Code Section 5.56.

But let’s assume that the law still has some effect. No one’s going to get charged because they’ll all be immune. Trump’s going to pardon everybody. And by “everybody,” I mean everybody. If you’re an ICE agent, you’re going to get a pardon. If you work for the DOJ, you’re going to get a pardon. Everybody’s going to get a pardon. These will be mass pardons, and they’ll be very broad. They may even exempt some people from accountability for real wrongdoing. Oh well. That cost is far outweighed by the benefit of protecting patriotic Americans from lawless communist retribution. 

There will be groups pardoned as a whole, like the aforementioned immigration officers, but also individuals by name. Right now, there should be a guy in the White House Counsel’s office keeping an Excel spreadsheet of people to pardon. It’s not because they’ve done anything wrong – we’ll talk about that in a second – but because they’ve been mentioned by the regime media or otherwise drawn the ire of the communists and might be a target. Naturally, the feminine Fredocons will cry like little girls about the destruction of the norms that mass pardons would represent, as if threats of mass prosecution for simply pursuing the policies that voters elected Trump to pursue did not constitute treating the norms like America treated Nagasaki. Trump, unlike the Never Trumpers, understands loyalty, and he’s totally going to do it. Pardons are a huge logistical hurdle, but this tactic is not entirely foolproof. It can be overcome when the 20 new diverse BIPOC, gender-fluid, differently-abled, Māori Muslims of heft on the expanded Supreme Court decide that there’s a little-known exception to the pardon power in the Constitution for when Trump uses it.

Then there’s another obstacle – what crime are you going to charge these people with? Traditionally, you can only charge people when there’s an actual crime, and you can prove all the elements of a violation of the applicable statute. That didn’t stop Jack Smith and the Democrats' DAs after 2020. Regular people seem to skip over this part a lot, too, including on our side. Some dipwad judge rules that an ax-murdering Bolivian must be set free from deportation, and he goes on an ax-murdering spree, and our people demand that this judge be sent to jail. There’s a problem. Being a crappy communist judge is not a crime. 

And that’s a problem for the leftists, too. You have all sorts of leftists screaming that the right-wingers should be prosecuted, but what crime have they committed? I guess they could charge the heroes who shot the woman trying to run them over, or the armed spazz who got in a fight with them, with murder, but those officers are getting pardoned by name already, and even if they didn’t, there’s a whole bunch of defenses. But what do you charge Stephen Miller with? Criminally being mean? Felony refusal to obey the libs? Not being a leftist with malice aforethought? Of course, when they convene their own Nuremberg trials for Republicans who dared exercise power after being elected to office, they probably won’t be so picky about technicalities like charging people under specific laws. After all, when you do that, the defendant has a chance to defend himself, and they don’t want that.

So, let’s look at the practicalities of prosecuting patriots. Assuming they’re not going to be bound by common sense, the law, or self-preservation – because this will not end well – what happens? President Kamala Harris decides she’s going to prosecute ICE officers for the crime of being ICE officers, and there are a bunch of them in Florida, and… how do you think that’s going to go? I mean, putting aside the challenge of talking a bunch of federal agents into arresting other federal agents for the crime of being federal agents, how do you go into Florida and arrest them? We saw in Minnesota state officials covering for actual criminals; expect non-femme Republican governors to act to protect patriots. Do you think Governor Ron DeSantis’s successor is going to be cool with Dem persecutions? Do you think normal people will be cool with the Dem persecutions?

Look at what happened in Minnesota. A bunch of commie misfits showed up with a bunch of phone cameras and the occasional pistol, which we have now learned is every American’s absolute right to bring along to a situation where they intend to get sideways with the cops. Imagine, instead of 30 misfits blowing whistles, that you have 30 guys with their AR-15s – I don’t think that a mandatory AR-15 buyback is going to be successful, if you get my drift. That kind of raises the stakes. If you are a federal officer intent on arresting fellow federal officers to do Kamala Harris’s will, you’re going to have to ask yourself if that’s worth your life. Remember, the targets here are people who are trained to fight – all this blather about the ICE agents being untrained is ridiculous because they performed exactly as they were trained to do when somebody tries to run them over or brings a gun to a brawl. And their friends will be trained, too.

Remember, at the end of the day, government is about force. If you don’t obey, people with guns come. The challenge is the other people with guns whom you’ve attempted to disenfranchise and persecute. And, after watching the lawlessness of the last 10 years, from the BLM riots to the murder of Charlie Kirk and the attempted murders of President Trump to the organized attack on immigration forces in Mogadishu, the right fully understands the stakes.

Perhaps the right will shrug and agree to live as serfs under the teetering heel of a president like Kamala Harris and her coterie of communist cadres. I just don’t think I’d bet my life on that.

Lots of News, Often Unverifiable

American Thinker 

I’ve been working hard this week trying to keep abreast of national and international events, and I’ve come to the conclusion that much of what is most important to know remains, as yet, murky and unverifiable.

International Developments

Some things are clear. The decades-long oppression of the people of Cuba is coming to an end within days. The country is woefully short of energy sources -- in significant part because Maduro is out and Venezuela is no longer providing it. The country is now barely existing in blackout conditions. President Trump has announced that major tariffs will be imposed on any country that resupplies fuel. I give the existing regime no more than a few days until it’s done.

In Venezuela, despite some signs of pushback by the new interim leader, the transition appears to be proceeding as rapidly as we might wish. This week, it was announced that the national prison is closing, with all prisoners released. Moreover, a general amnesty has been announced.

In the Mideast, in apparent preparation for an attack on Iran’s rulers, Israel has been eliminating Hezb’allah redoubts, striking at Iranian proxies so they cannot come to their sponsors’ aid. Hamas still has not disarmed, and Israel has successfully eliminated more Hamas leaders.

In Iran this week, there were significant explosions in 11 cities, with reports (denied by the government) that key officials were killed in these bombings. The Iranian government claims that these were simply caused by accidents in gas pipes, but this does not seem confirmed by pictures of the damage.

Rumors earlier in the week that a plane, which normally carries Iranian officials, left Tehran for Moscow. Flight identification and tracking appeared to confirm that such a flight took place, but the speculation that it carried many key figures to exile cannot be confirmed. Citing the Caspian Post, Wretchardthecat may have solved this mystery:

So now we know who was one of the passengers aboard the Iranian VIP plane to Russia: Iran's security chief Ali Larijani. He is a very senior figure, formerly commanded the revolutionary guards. He is intimately connected with the nuclear program. He may not have been the only high level passenger on the VIP flight to Moscow, just the cover sheet for other unnamed members of the delegation.

A senior Iranian security official has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid the ongoing Tehran-Washington tensions, according to Russian and Iranian officials.

Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran, met President Putin at the Kremlin on Friday, The Caspian Post reports, citing Interfax.

The meeting was later confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Kazem Jalali, Iran Ambassadr [sic] to Russia, also confirmed the talks, stating that Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, met with President Putin at the Kremlin on Friday evening.

U.S. ships and aircraft are positioned to attack. When and at what targets are pure speculation, though certainly every effort must be made to limit civilian casualties. In a sense, we are facing a replay of Israel’s dilemma after October 7. In this case, the hostages are the people of Iran.

At the UN, with U.S. contributions halted, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that the organization is in financial difficulty and will run out of funds in July. It’s not the only international organization being rocked by dissent.

The European Union is starting to see more pushback, significantly because of the consequences of its open-borders policies, which Hungary, for one, has refused to follow. Denmark and Sweden have announced remigration/deportation plans.

The UK has not, but Starmer’s hold on power is increasingly very tenuous. He was humiliated on a trip this week to China, where he received a tepid reception and gave away a great deal for nothing of value. His attempted giveaway of the Chagos does not look as if it will survive a U.S. veto or parliamentary inquiry.

France’s Macron’s policies have triggered protests by firefighters and police. It looks like Europe is finally going to label Iran’s IRGC a terrorist organization, after that outfit slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranian civilians.

The U.S.

In the U.S., attention to deportation protests, the search and seizure of the Fulton County, Georgia, election records, and the release of the thousands of documents in what are called the Epstein files are probably the key items of the week.

Minneapolis police (and now Los Angeles police) are cooperating with federal HHS officials as deportations continue.

Interestingly, the government signals it is going after the funders of the ICE riots. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced the planned move:

“If money is quietly moving crowds in the streets, Jeanine Pirro says it’s time to treat it like organized crime.”-- Jeanine Pirro moves to block George Soros from allegedly secretly bankrolling protests across America -- by introducing a new bill that could classify such funding as organized crime under the RICO Act. If enacted, Soros-linked accounts could reportedly be frozen overnight, triggering a massive political shockwave nationwide and igniting fierce debate over protest financing, free speech, and national security. Soros should be behind bars!!

It is a key tactic of the administration to go after those who fund evil. They’ve done it internationally, by blocking the narco trade, the oil shipments from Iran and Venezuela, cutting off funds for the UN and the USAID slush fund. Domestic NGOs are also under scrutiny:

Kristi Noem goes nuclear as DHS chief, exposing how DEMS CREATED A SHADOW GOVERNMENT to sabotage the nation!

She says Democrats built a massive NGO web at home and overseas designed to weaken and overthrow America’s constitutional system.

It’s probably no coincidence that with the cutoff of funds to USAID and the increased scrutiny on NGOs, the DNC is in the red, and it will be even more starved for funds as the smurfing operation Act Blue is increasingly scrutinized.

We know the FBI searched and seized the Fulton County election materials, and we already knew before that the 315 thousand ballots in Georgia were illegally counted. There’s an FBI forensic lab on site reviewing the seized materials, and I think they will probably find a great deal to support the necessity of the SAVE Act pending in Congress, which is designed to limit the shenanigans that clearly occurred in Georgia and elsewhere in 2020.

There is, moreover, besides the usual election criminality and likelihood of electronic legerdemain in ballot counting and recording, some clear signs of foreign interference. What, if any, criminal prosecutions may occur if my speculation about what will be found is true remains unclear, but foreign involvement, if proven, adds another dimension to the inquiry. Unfortunately, for those who might wish and speculate otherwise, even if the administration exposes massive election corruption, that will not undo the Biden presidency, his appointments, and such. 

Finally, the release of the Epstein files, which the Democrats insisted on (doubtless believing the judicial hold on their release was permanent and the charge was sufficient to tar the president with suspicion), took place after hours of review in order to, among other things, protect the victims. The demand took up countless hours of DoJ lawyers, already shorthanded, for nothing.

Just as the president warned, names of perfectly innocent contacts with Epstein appeared, including Mayor Mamdani’s mother, for one. The files make clear that Trump had never engaged in any of the inappropriate conduct attributed to Epstein, which must be a further disappointment to those who hawked this nonsense.

Here’s the most detailed analysis I’ve found of what is in those documents.

To sum up, we’ve found out

• Jeffrey Epstein was an expert at tax advisory and offshore jurisdictions moving around money for rich people, that’s how he made his money. Unsavory but also legal and not Mossad blackmail. 
• He was a consummate networker spending lots of time hobnobbing with the rich for mundane reasons (getting new clients, narcissism) 
• He had sex parties with young women, some of them minors, but none of them were "children" in the conventional sense of the term
• Some of these women were paid, not "trafficked"
• To be clear underage prostitution is a crime and people who solicit/procure underage prostitutes should go to prison! 
• However, most of the Epstein "victims" are grifters. They were happy to be paid money to engage in high-dollar prostitution and now they’re engaging in a different kind of prostitution. 
• He filmed the sex parties to jerk off to the tapes, not to blackmail people or send them to the CIA or whatever
• He killed himself because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell
• He was a standard issue MSNBC boomer lib.

Total waste of everybody’s time.

As is clear, most of the important matters of the day cannot be fully understood yet. We have hints, speculations, and analyses, but still nothing very concrete. Events, however, seem to be moving as fast as they are multiplying, and by next week, we should see a lot of clarification.

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Homeland Security Sees Record Number of Applicants

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced that her office has received a record number of applications during the first year of the new Trump administration.

“The people at the Department of Homeland Security in law enforcement are so excited that they get to do their jobs,” Noem told Fox & Friends on Sunday. “They’re so proud to work for a president that is strong, that is decisive, and that wants to make America safe and enforce our laws again.”

“Just at ICE we’ve had over 220,000 applications for 10,000 openings,” Noem continued. “At USCIS, we’ve had tens of thousands of applications. Secret Service applications have more than doubled.”

Noem believes that Trump’s America First agenda and emphasis on strong borders has been the catalyst for the surge in applications to her department. She emphasized that border protection was essential to national security and the safety of the American people. 

“We’ve got people in every department that are asking to come and work for the Department of Homeland Security because they recognize that we want to defend the homeland, that a country with no borders is no country at all, that people who live here and our citizens deserve safety on their streets, and that we deliver a response of protection of our critical infrastructure and relief to states when they face disasters through FEMA as well,” Noem said.

“It’s a vast department with a lot of responsibilities — 23 different agencies all tasked with keeping people safe, and that is exactly what President Trump is doing,” Noem concluded.

Noem has been the target of a large push by Democrats and some moderate Republicans to reign in the Homeland Security's enforcement of immigration law.

Trump has strongly defended the department head, indicating that her popular work on removing dangerous criminals from American cities will continue without interference.

There's a Main Character Syndrome Pandemic on the Left

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A new wave of “protests” have taken Los Angeles by storm as LAPD has been ordered to stand back and stand by as leftist agitators target a federal detention center. The outside of the building looks reminiscent of a scene from a post-apocalyptic city where survivors scavenge and fight off rival groups, but amid that chaos, we have been given a glimpse inside the mind of your average “protester.” 

These people 100% think they’re in a movie. It’s a performance. It’s all about their own egos and about imagining themselves as badass rebels fighting “the man.” In reality, they’re privileged little nerds who have zero relationships with working class or poor people and have no… pic.twitter.com/i5TLy5WCra

— Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) January 31, 2026

At a majority of these protests, you’ll find performative lunatics who put on a show for their fellow “activists” as if they are in some sort of Netflix series where they, of course, are the star. It’s as if there is something in pepper spray or tear gas that infects these people with Main Character Syndrome.

One video from the most recent set of demonstrations shows a young lady doing what looks like her best impression of Jim Carrey’s walk from Ace Ventura to look tough, all while throwing her arms around and chanting the same canned chants we’ve heard a million times already.

In another video, a woman is heard trying to start a chant multiple times over a loudspeaker and failing, and then complaining that no one had the heart to join in with her, and another video from a recent protest in Austin, Texas showed a protester trying to look cool while flipping off officers in a cloud of tear gas. 

HAPPENING NOW 🚨: DHS Police have issued a third and final warning to protestors on federal property, saying they must move back to the public sidewalk. More DHS agents see coming out from the garage ramp, dressed in tactical gear.

Los Angeles, CA 📍 pic.twitter.com/NnUN21XLLp

— Anthony (@anthonycabassa) February 1, 2026

These sorts of cringeworthy performances aren’t anything new. They’re a staple of leftwing activism and politics, and a precursor to the "Theatre Kid-Occupied-Government” that I write about so extensively. A famous bodycam video showed one campus activist reaching out to an officer while begging him to “take [his] hand and come with [him]” to stand against the war in Gaza in a scene reminiscent of Pepsi’s failed marketing campaign starring Kendall Jenner.

It certainly doesn't help the Left's case when you have famous actors writing terrible poetry to "commemorate" the life of an individual who attempted to run down federal agents with her car, which is without a doubt a fate worse than death. 

Peter Dinklage recites poem for Renee Good who was shot by ICE while attempting to run over an agent.

“Blood blown like rose. Iced wheels flinched and froze.” pic.twitter.com/2UbkCecYl5

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 1, 2026

While it’s fun to point and laugh at these idiots, don’t forget that they are only a few years removed from being elected to federal offices.

Soros Funded Nonprofit Doxxes Agents Involved in Alex Pretti Shooting

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ProPublica, a liberal nonprofit funded by George Soros, has doxxed the Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti as part of an ideological crusade.

“ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti,” the organization posted in a statement on social media. “We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed.”

ProPublica's statement then implied that the doxxing was necessary in order to hold the pair of agents accountable.

“The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement,” the statement continued.

“The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials,” the statement concluded. “Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.”

ProPublica’s decision to publish the names of the officers comes after ICE and Border Patrol agents have faced apparent death threats, with targets overlayed on their faces by leftist activists in Signal group chats.

Democrat politicians have also increased their use of dangerous rhetoric to amplify their base against federal law enforcement, with many referring to ICE and Border Patrol as “Nazis” to “hunt down.”

ICE agents have already been subject to multiple terror attacks since the beginning of the second Trump administration, numerous shootings targeting an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas. One shooting left two illegal immigrants dead and another injured in an apparent copycat crime of the Charlie Kirk assassination.

How Joe Biden Turned Immigration From Treasured History to Deadly

RedState 

A cartoon by the late JB Handelsman in the New Yorker has stuck with me all these years. It shows a Native American family standing on the beach watching a boatload of Pilgrims row ashore from the Mayflower.

To me, it’s a useful reminder that to some extent, no matter how extended, with the exception of those Native Americans, we all ultimately are immigrants on this blessed continent. The question should be, how can we wisely, humanely, and efficiently manage a steady flow of newcomers who add value while putting America First, as President Trump so aptly puts it.

My father and mother were immigrants from Canada, where the Great Depression lasted longer. As a child, I can remember my mother’s citizenship ceremony. It was a big deal.

Without legal immigrants coming in varying waves throughout our history, the United States and those of us presently enjoying its bounties wouldn’t have a fraction of the success we have all enjoyed. Now, since Americans are marrying later and, thus, having fewer children, we’ll need many more legal immigrants in coming decades to continue the growth and prosperity, manning business, industry, and the services.

Unfortunately, Joseph R. Biden Jr., our misbegotten former president, and his seditious puppeteers, who’ve yet to be punished, have sullied our historic immigration story by their wanton disregard of our laws and culture for political gain. 

During Biden’s pathetic 1,461-day reign of error, his administration willfully allowed upwards of 10 million immigrants to enter the country illegally, undocumented, unvetted, and untracked. That’s a crime by him and them. 

The goal, of course, was to create an immense cohort of appreciative newcomers and their progeny who would vote for Democrats as long as that party's operatives could prevent any effective, uniform system of voter ID.

Biden people even cravenly moved thousands of illegals inland on buses and unannounced midnight flights, where they’ve mingled with the existing urban population of illegals, making detection and eviction more difficult. (See Minnesota.)

This has added immense unfunded financial pressures of billions on local community resources for education, health, welfare, housing, and law enforcement. Local taxpayers will be footing those bills for decades.

Thankfully, President Trump stopped that invasion on Day One of Term Two.

Here's an ugly, unjust reality: It's not fair to the thousands of immigrants who are following all the entry rules and patiently waiting abroad in line for years. But despite any campaign promises, we will never expel all of the new illegals, just as we have never expelled all or even most of illegal immigrants in past decades. 

We can try. Every one gone is progress. And the obvious effort might deter others from coming in the future. But the enduring national will and the means for such a years-long, contentious process are simply not there. Biden's handlers cynically knew that.

President Trump is wisely focused on deporting criminals among the immigrants.

The fact is, despite specious claims by sanctuary-city advocates, every one of those 10 million immigrants broke the law by illegally entering the country. Hence, the term "illegal immigrants," which some media avoid to fit their narrative. 

Thousands also have broken other laws while present in this country, and thousands of others came here because they broke laws back home and fled apprehension.

Now, the administration has begun the complex, costly, and unnecessarily controversial process of removing illegal immigrants accused of crimes here and in their home countries.

From Jan. 20 last year to Dec. 11, the administration arrested 595,000 illegal immigrants. Of those, the Department of Homeland Security reports 416,000 or 70 percent, have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges just in the U.S. 

That’s a lot of unnecessary crime, including awful rapes and homicides, inflicted on innocent Americans by the willful negligence of Biden and his cronies.

Now, ask yourself who could sincerely oppose removing criminals from American society? Key word: sincerely.

Though it’s hard to wrap our minds around this, today, there are Americans legally protesting ICE agents legally arresting illegal immigrants who have committed other felonies here and in their homelands. Inexplicably, some protesting immigrants wave the flag of the country they fled; to my knowledge, they were neither forced nor invited, and no one is holding them here.

There are, however, some protesters who are sincerely motivated by hourly wages from leftist or progressive organizations for confronting ICE agents, especially if media are present. 

Venezuela Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado Discusses Her Goals and Objectives

President Trump and Secretary Rubio are walking carefully through a process to keep Venezuela stable and authentic to the true intents of the Venezuelan people.  Toward that end, both Trump and Rubio have been very careful with Maria Corina Machado, the exiled opposition leader who claims to be the legitimate voice of the people.

Machado is loved by the United Nations, the American leftists and DC control agents. However, to avoid Machado becoming Venezuela’s Zelenskyy, President Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio are working through a three-stage process that would culminate in secure national elections to coincide with Maria Machado’s return.  If she wins the hearts and minds, she will have legitimacy.

If you listen carefully to her phrases and omissions, you can clearly see where the trepidation from Trump and Rubio comes from.  There are a lot of platitudes and pretenses within Venezuelan politics.  Watch:

♦️𝐖³𝐏 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝

 

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