Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin recently released this statement, “Our ICE law enforcement is now facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them while they risk their lives every single day to remove the worst of the worst illegal immigrants. From bounties placed on their heads, threats to their families, stalking, and doxxing online, our officers are experiencing an unprecedented level of violence and threats against them and their families.”
Could anything be more unamerican? This behavior begins with the continuous violent rhetoric from Liberal leaders. Where are these Liberal leaders located? A conclusion from the Department of Homeland security: “Make no mistake, sanctuary politicians are contributing to the surge in violent threats and assaults of our officers through their repeated vilification and demonization tactics, including gross comparisons to the Nazi Gestapo.
What “sanctuary politicians?” A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)reported that, as of May 2025, there are at least 1,003 town, city, county and state sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide. Generally, these are the same idiots who have been advocating for “defund the police.”
All of the rhetoric provides assumed justification by groups of demonstrators initiating action against ICE agents who are arresting illegal immigrant criminals for deportation.
In order to draw some conclusions about what is happing across America today, let’s put the illegal alien apprehension/deportation issue in perspective. Some of this data previously reported in an article by Pem Schaeffer, Immigration Statistics from 1993 thru 2016.
Bill Clinton years: 1993-2000:
Total Apprehensions: 12,211,243
Total Deportations: 12,290,905 (average about 1,536,000 per year)
GW Bush years: 2001-2008:
Total Apprehensions: 9,262,315
Total Deportations: 10,328,850 (average about 1,291,000 per year)
Barack Obama years: 2009-2016:
Total Apprehensions: 5,370,849
Total Deportations: 5,281,115 (average about 660,000 per year)
While there were some random demonstrations during the deportation of 27,900,870 over the 24-year period, ChatGPT concludes that, “these protests tended to focus on broader demands for immigration reform rather than sustained national campaigns directly aimed at ICE agents.”
Donald Trump years: 2017-2021:
Total Apprehensions: just over 2 million
Total Deportations: about 2 million (average about 1,400 per day)
Anti-ICE sentiment and demonstrations were a visible part of public protest activity during Trump’s first term, especially from 2017 through 2018.
Joe Biden years: 2021-2025:
Total Apprehensions: average over 7,000 per day. While there is no single authoritative number of illegal immigrant apprehensions during the Biden administration, 10-11 million is considered an accurate range.
Total Deportations: less than 600,000 (average about 400 per day)
Opposition to ICE and “Abolish ICE” activism was ongoing throughout Biden’s term, mainly as part of a broader immigrant-rights movement (e.g., marches, rallies, and community protests) opposing immigration enforcement and calling for changes in policy.
The Clinton/Biden comparisons reveal a couple important things. First, Clinton, in eight years, 12 million illegals came in, 12 million went out. Biden in four years, 10-11 million came in, 600,000 went out. Why? Clinton saw them for what they were, illegal immigrants. On the other hand, Biden, as an administration policy, deliberately opened the U.S./Mexican border with the specific intent to flow millions of unvetted immigrants into the U.S., gain their political allegiance, thereby add another democrat identity group and seek to dominate the U.S. political scene; at an average of over 7,000 per every 1,461 days of Biden/Harris.
The Second comparison of Clinton era with Biden/Trump, 2021-today has to do with the Democrat party. Those of us well beyond middle-age will remember a Democrat party in the 1990s that was serious about their accomplishments FOR all Americans, (examples, “welfare to work” program, budget surpluses, economic growth, crime reduction, Balkan peace efforts, etc.) They could talk and compromise across the aisle. Their accomplishments were focused generally on what was best for we-the-people. Beginning with Biden/Harris in 2021 the Democrat Party has consistently lied to us (“the border is secure”) and what the millions of illegals, particularly the millions of criminals, terrorists and drug dealers have done and are doing TO we-the-people.
Name one thing the Democrats have done and/or are doing FOR the American people. in the past 5 years. Many Democrats will respond, “The nearly $2 trillion “Inflation Reduction Act.” The truth is that Act had zero impact on inflation as it rose from 1.4% end 2020 to7% end 2021. The current Democrat party is now, since the Trump inauguration, centered on one thing; they are dead-set against any and every Trump policy no matter how much it may do FOR we-the-people. To sustain and enforce their actions on a daily basis they consistently attempt to shift blame for every Biden failure onto the Republican Party in general and President Trump in particular. They have created an on-going, deep-seated culture of hate and blame that has seriously divided the nation.
GOTAWAYS AND ICE CONNECTION
When entering the U.S. not all of the illegals sought out a border agent to be processed. There was a group referred to as the “gotaways.” Many of them were seen on cameras and other sensors but not apprehended. The gotaways did not want to be engaged and processed because they are trans-national gang members, criminals, drug dealers, cartel operators, human traffickers, terrorists and other undesirables. In the four Biden/Harris years there were almost 2 million gotaways “seen” on sensors but not apprehended. The head of the Border Patrol, Paul Ortiz, testified that the number of gotaways could be underreported by at least 20 percent; the real number could be closer to 2.5 million. Then consider the number of criminals and terrorists who were NOT detected at all. Bottom line, Biden and Harris set in motion a border situation in which several millions of criminals and terrorists entered into our society and are still here today.
The gotaways are the “worst of the worst” and by President Trump’s policy, they are to be found, taken in to custody and deported. That is what ICE is all about today. That is their mission.
CONCLUSIONS
Biden and VP Harris committed the most egregious national security offense in our nation’s history. For example, it became common knowledge that Venezuela’s Dictator, Maduro, was emptying his prisons and integrating the convicts by the thousands into the masses of immigrant’s crossing into the U.S. per day. Biden/Harris policies, their decisions, their actions set them apart from the previous four administrations. For example:
- Deportation of illegals has been a necessary and successful priority for Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump while the Biden/Harris priority was to retain the maximum possible numbers of illegals, to include the “gotaways.”
- The Biden/Harris open border allowed tons of fatal drugs to flow into the U.S. from the Mexican Cartels which resulted in over 400,000 drug overdose deaths by mostly young Americans. Do the math; 400,000 divided by 1461 days in office equals an average 274 deaths per day. Did you ever hear Biden say the word, “fentanyl”? Neither did I.
- During the Biden/Harris term, with an average of over 7,000 illegals per day, the processing, transportation, debit card, cell phone, housing, food, medical etc. cost the tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars.
- Known international terrorists have entered the U.S. The total number is unknown. The number of new terrorists’ cells that have been created is unknown. The terrorists’ plans and capabilities to disable or even destroy America are unknown.
- The FBI has reported that Mexican Cartel operators now exist in all 50 states. For sure, one of their priorities is to organize and focus the new, violent transnational gangs. Gang members become the foot-soldiers for the transportation, distribution and sale of deadly drugs all across America.
- Boden/Harris were comfortable lying to we-the-people. Illegal immigration was of course a primary Trump issue during the 2024 Presidential campaign. To counter Trump’s advantage on that issue, the Biden-led Democrats insisted that any changes at the border had to come from Congress. A few hours after being inaugurated, on 20 January, President Trump signed an Executive Order to begin sealing Biden’s open border. Here is a summary of what President Trump has accomplished without Congressional approval:
- -Over 2,000 active-duty troops were sent to the border.
- -More than 62,000 migrant children “lost” by the Biden administration have been rescued, many from sex and labor trafficking.
- -Illegal border crossings have plummeted to the lowest level since 1970.
- -Border wall construction has been renewed.
- -“Remain in Mexico” policy was renewed.
- -Ended catch-and-release.
- -Terminated taxpayer-funded public benefits for illegals.
- -Declared deadly transnational gangs and numerous Cartels as Foreign Terrorists Organizations.
- -Etc, etc.
- The Democrat Party is systematically utilizing its entire leadership chain to:
-Oppose every Trump action and policy.
-Repeatedly reclassify Democrat failures and blame Trump/Republicans.
-Label Trump/Republican actions as “racist,” “fascist,” “gestapo” or worse.
-Blame, blame, blame.
-Build hatred towards the entire Trump administration.
-Not accept accountability for the mess our country is in right now.
ALL OF THE ABOVE LEAD US TO A BOTTOM LINE
The Democrat leadership chain from the mayor of the smallest community, through state senior officials and on to Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries in the House are not stupid or unaware. They know that they supported the Biden/Harris open border. They know millions of potentially violent undesirables are now living in our communities. They know American taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting illegals. They know that our national security is in jeopardy from violent criminals, Cartels and terrorists.
Notwithstanding that knowledge, they are willing and able to openly lie to the American people about the necessity to fix the mess they created.
Having eliminated honesty and accountability from their moral compass, the Democrat leadership adopted a strategy to take all of President Trump’s positive actions and, with unity of effort, create a deception that implies the Trump solutions are worse than the original offenses.
THE REAL BOTTOM LINE
The violent rhetoric, death threats and anti-ICE demonstrations are not about actual hatred of the good, loyal, fellow-American ICE federal agents. It is about creating an additional, nation-wide deception for the failed open border debacle. Anti-ICE across America is not so much about ICE itself but is a subset of the blind-hatred culture they have created against President Trump. Blind-hatred is so intense that the Democrat leaders refuse to consider any other solutions. Their public message to we-the-people is laced with vulgarity, accusations of “racism”, “fascism,”, “gestapo-like” for President Trump himself, his senior leaders and his policies.
A back-handed compliment; the Democrat leadership is good at what they do, unfortunately, what they do is so despicably unamerican and dangerous.
PS…..We better keep ballots out of the illegals’ hands next November. The Dems desperately want to take control of the Congress. If they succeed, their first action will be to pass perhaps the only 4-word law in history; “Amnesty for all, immediately.” If that happens, we can stick a fork in America; we are done. In a few years, add us to the long list of failed socialist countries. Amnesty for all. “All” includes about 24 million 2025 inhabitants who are not citizens.