ICE-Obstructing Democrats Have Lost Their Minds

Championing illegal alien criminals by storming an ICE facility in New Jersey is not the way to win hearts and minds.

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Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka delivers a statement to the press in the lobby of the Robert Treat Hotel following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Delaney Hall Detention Center, in Newark, N.J., United States on May 10, 2025.

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Progressive Democrats have decided that the way to win over Americans is to disrupt operations at a contract detention center in Newark, N.J., where federal immigration officials are detaining illegal aliens — the vast majority of whom have criminal records, alleged ties to the vicious MS-13 criminal gang, and often both.

Recent polling indicates that the public overwhelmingly supports President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, which prioritize the detention and deportation of “criminal aliens” (i.e., aliens with records of violating ordinary criminal law, as opposed to identity-related crimes that are typical of aliens living and working illegally in the U.S.). There is similarly strong support for the arrest and deportation of gang members, such as those associated with MS-13, which the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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