7 Extreme Democrat Attacks on ICE Help Explain Why Americans Are Losing Their Minds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : They justified this by noting that one of the pastors works for ICE.
45% : Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called ICE an "occupying force.
43% : On Sunday, they effectively laid siege to the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel, smashing the windows and spraypainting anti-ICE slogans, leading both state police and federal agents to respond.
42% : These Democrats haven't attacked a hotel, urged nurses to paralyze ICE agents, or invaded a church, but their hyperbolic condemnations of immigration enforcement arguably contributed to the climate of hatred that gives agitators permission to harass innocents in the name of fighting Nazis.
41% : What leads people to think it's acceptable to target ICE so much that they're willing to harass innocents? Seven extreme statements from Democrat officials might provide an answer.
39% : She said ICE and Border Patrol are "terrorizing our communities, violating rights, and taking lives with zero accountability."
37% : The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, at the hands of immigration enforcement have contributed to the climate of hostility against ICE, but those incidents arguably do not explain this extreme hatred.
37% : (ICE has started wearing masks in response to record threats and attacks against federal agents.)
37% : If ICE is the modern-day Gestapo, their reasoning goes, that justifies an aggressive response -- even if that means harassing innocent people.
32% : On Tuesday, Virginia Commonwealth University Health announced that it fired a nurse after she released social media videos urging medical providers to use a "sabotage tactic" against ICE, preparing syringes with saline or succinylcholine, a muscle relaxant that can cause temporary partial paralysis.
32% : " Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., compared ICE to the secret police of Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro.
28% : (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Every day, it seems anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators perpetrate a new atrocity against innocent people, and Democrats demonizing ICE arguably bear some of the blame.
27% : " When U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, Omar described the incident as "an execution by immigration enforcement."
24% : Walz more recently threatened to deploy his state's National Guard to oppose ICE, and suggested President Trump had launched a "war" against his state.
24% : " California's governor, Gavin Newsom, compared America under Trump to foreign dictators before signing a law prohibiting ICE from wearing masks while carrying out raids in the Golden State.
21% : " "Trump is using ICE like a secret police force," Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., wrote on X. "They've used Gestapo-like tactics to terrorize communities for nearly a year, and now they're literally killing people.
7% : She accused Trump of turning the state into a "war zone where unchecked federal forces murder our neighbors." While Pretti's death remains under investigation and the Border Patrol agents involved have been placed on leave, Omar's rhetoric demonizes ICE beyond what the facts suggest.

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