What do the anti-ICE protestors want to accomplish?
The protestors in Minneapolis and elsewhere — and, of course, their media outlets covering them — seem to believe they have the higher moral ground, heirs to the civil rights movement, protesting unjust laws.
They are not!
Consider the crucial and related elements of the anti-ICE protests: who the demonstrators are, and what they are being arrested for.
The civil rights protests began organically or quasi-organically, often led by preachers, who decided to step forward to be arrested, and those arrests were generally a direct consequence of the unjust laws that the demonstrators were protesting. But the illegal immigrants, the vast majority whom have also committed harmful illegal acts, are the targets of deportation operations are for the most part uninvolved in these anti-ICE protests. They aren’t giving themselves up for arrest, because they know they are likely be deported. Meanwhile, the American protestors interfering with ICE’s operations aren’t actually ICE’s targets. They cannot be arrested or deported for being aliens, because they aren’t. They can only be arrested if they frustrate the officers enough to force their own arrests.
This difference may seem merely tactical. It isn’t. a majority, a large majority, of Americans want stricter controls on migration into the US. They want most illegal migrants — certainly those who arrived within the last decade — to go home. And the view Americans have on this issue has hardened in the last several years. The left-wing/democratics' open borders debacle is failed and dead.
Immigration controls are not morally repulsive. Shining a light on the underlying laws will not convince Americans to ignore them. So, the only choice the protestors have is for them, alone, to threaten democracy and riot to try to make enforcement of the laws look so ugly that Americans will give up on arresting migrants. The anti-ICE protest movement cannot seriously expects to convince Americans that open borders make sense, so its tactics are its only strategy, because the illogic hate-filled ideology of the protestors demands it.
They’re behaving this way not because they have the moral (or political) high ground but because they don’t. They're only chance to win is if ICE lets its tactical frustration bubble over, from being human, and on the right side of the legal and moral equation. But for neoliberals, none of that matters, only the insatiable attempt to satisfy their addiction to their deeply flawed ideology is what they worship and crave.
Supplemental Info:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ice-watch-in-practice/
https://patriotpost.us/videos/124240-ice-chief-causes-liberal-politician-to-flee-debate-2026-01-14
https://heartland.org/opinion/life-liberty-property-129-minneapolis-ice-obstruction-resistance-is-now-open-rebellion/
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/15/anti-ice-activists-goal-isnt-stopping-violence-its-ending-all-immigration-enforcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anti-ice-activists-goal-isnt-stopping-violence-its-ending-all-immigration-enforcement&utm_term=2026-01-15
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/01/13/dem-sen-smith-on-govt-shutdown-over-ice-cant-provide-more-funding-to-an-agency-that-is-completely-out-of-control/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/13/biden-let-immigration-activist-turn-america-into-an-open-borders-country-victor-davis-hanson/
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5684580-its-not-just-illegal-immigration-driving-the-housing-crisis-its-all-immigration/
https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-lefts-anti-ice-fury-cant-be-quelled/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/4415128/can-nation-endure-when-law-treated-optional/
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show/
https://glennbeck.com/read/articles/evidence-could-prove-soros-is-funding-chaos
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/funding_for_anti_ice_protests_is_national_and_international.html
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They are the Neo-Confederates waging war on the US!
Tjhe Neo-Linberals have embraced the two most destructive political philosophies. Marxism and Islam. Tney are promoting them both and thnrowing in a completely broken moral compass. If the Democrats gain the majority in either thje mid-terms, or tjhe next Presidential election I predict thje United States will be forever changed into an economic slave for the rest of the world.
Since Americans in general are not EFFECTIVELY fighting back, and using every edge our Founders gave to them, it looks like that is going to happen.