RINO Defeatism

In the aftermath of the shooting of Alex Pretti a lot of RINOs are suddenly bleating that Trump needs to tone things down, reduce ICE operations, and so forth. Much of this is based on making a mountain of a mole hill by focusing on what happened to Pretti. For instance, WRSA linked to a piece from the Sonar21 blog where the author discusses what he believes was the problem in the Pretti situation but then writes: "While I am personally in favor of removing the hordes of illegal migrants that have flooded into the United States during Biden’s four years in office, I believe it must be done according to the law."

    First, I would note that what happened to Pretti is only tangentially related to removing illegals, and only because Pretti was part of an organized insurgency directed at disrupting ICE enforcement operations. It could have happened in other circumstances. There is nothing special about Pretti: we've seen these types of incidents--what I've called "feeding frenzies"--many times over the years whether its cops going to a wrong address and encountering an armed home owner, arrests of homeless people or people having mental health issues, drunks encountered in motel hallways that can't follow multiple conflicting commands from officers, people pulling wallets from a back pocket to show ID and being subjected to multiple mag dumps, and so on. For many law enforcement, when they hear someone yell "gun" it isn't interpreted as a warning but as a command to begin firing at a suspect. 

    But what happened to Pretti should not be allowed to be a distraction from the goal here which is to deport all illegal aliens. Pretti was part of an organized effort to shut down deportations by creating incidents in the hopes that officers will respond with excessive force. He did so because he valued foreign murderers and rapists and child molesters--which are the illegals ICE has been concentrating their efforts on--more than his own safety or that of his neighbors and fellow Americans. He died protecting violent criminals from arrest and deportation so they could continue to prey on Americans. He wasn't a passive observer, but had attacked ICE, including kicking out a tail light on a vehicle. There was nothing noble or honorable in what Pretti did. He was a traitor at heart. We cannot let him and his comrades win. His death should put fear into his comrades' hearts, not ours. 

    Second, responding to the comment about illegals being removed in accordance with the law, my belief is that the task of removing 30+ million* illegal aliens is beyond the capabilities of the law, at least as it exists now. 

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*I know the estimates that the elites push generally put the number of illegals at around 11 million, but that number has been asserted for over a decade--as if the number of illegals is static--and has previously been debunked. For instance, a Yale study in 2018 estimated that there were at least 22.1 million at that time. But that was just the mean of their results. The upper limit was 29 million.

Robert Rector, a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation stated in testimony before the House of Representatives in 2024 that 6.7 million illegals had entered the United States during the Biden Administration. But even Rector's estimate was based on estimates that the Border Patrol successfully intercepted twice as many illegals as "got away" which seems unlikely. A Fox News study pegged the number at 7.2 million entering under the Biden Administration.