JD Vance

Fake story alert from a sympathetic business owner, small business owner.

Went into the manufacturing facility.

All of a sudden...

An illegal immigrant shows up.

They don't know it's an illegal immigrant.

And then a bunch of ICE officers descend.

Now these people just want to go to work.

They want to go to work safely.

And now all of a sudden there's a major law enforcement operation happening right outside their place of business.

Now from one perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader or why an employee would say, well, what's going on?

It's a little scary no matter your position in life if a bunch of cop cars show up and they're arresting somebody.

Now, the additional context is that we know that people online have been encouraging illegal immigrants that one way they can evade arrest is by showing up at a legitimate place of business, making it impossible for these guys to actually enforce their immigration laws.

So while I can understand the perspective of somebody who doesn't want to see an arrest happen at their place of work, I can also understand the perspective of our immigration enforcement officers

who have to do their job and can't allow a heckler's veto over our immigration enforcement.

And so much of what's gone wrong is the failure to do that.

And here's the point.

We can do a good job of enforcing our immigration laws without the chaos, but it actually requires the cooperation of state and local officials.

If you look at blue cities and blue states, red cities and red states, you go to Austin, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee,

You go to the state of Texas, obviously a very red state, or the state of Tennessee, a very red state, but you've got blue cities within those states, you do not have this level of chaos.

The reason why things have gotten so out of hand is because of failure of cooperation between the state