Civil war from the left?

The past week, but especially the past twelve hours, has seen some surprising, and concerning, developments on the immigration front. Specifically, the Mayor of Denver, Colorado actually threatened to turn his city into a “fortress of resistance” against the very concept “illegal alien.” His is the most shocking declaration of non-cooperation with the anticipated “mass deportation” by returning President Donald J. Trump. Is the Mayor of Denver putting on a crazy dog-and-pony show? Or is the left preparing to fight a civil war to cling to their last chance at electoral success?

The players in a possible civil war

The American left, and members of it, official and civilian, have not taken the Election of 2024 results well. Ellen DeGeneres and her female intimate partner have already relocated to England. (In doing so, they became the first celebrities to follow through on threats to leave the country if Trump won.)

Celebrities aside, illegal aliens suddenly have many vocal sympathizers. Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) said she will “stand up and protect Arizonans from harm by the federal government.” She seems to count illegal aliens present in Arizona as “Arizonans.” Senator-elect Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) charged that Donald Trump’s threatened use of military forces would be “used against American citizens.” He has not made clear what he means by that, if indeed he is doing more than indulging in unfounded speculation.

The President-elect did say on Monday that he will, if he must, declare a national emergency on immigration.

But Border Czar-designate Tom Homan denied that the military, or any other force, would “sweep … neighborhoods” or build vast camps to detain large numbers of people.

They’ll be targeted arrests. We’ll know who we’re going to arrest, where we’re most likely to find ‘em based on numerous, you know, investigative processes. Tom Homan

Tom Homan

Retired Deputy Border Patrol Agent J. J. Carrell testified before a House Oversight Subcommittee that President Joe Biden aided and abetted “the largest mass invasion into America the world has ever seen.” Cassandra MacDonald of The Gateway Pundit provided a partial transcript.

On his first day in office, I watched in horror as ninety-four Executive Orders cascaded down from Washington, D.C. obliterating every immigration policy that had provided the most secure border in America’s history. Border Patrol Agents were forced to carry out unconstitutional orders that violated every law in the Immigration and Nationality Act. J. J. Carrell

No doubt that included orders to border-wall contractors to down tools and go home, leaving an unfinished wall.

By the action of DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden was able to create policy out of thin air, ignoring federal immigration law, and facilitating the largest mass invasion into America that the world has ever seen.

Between one in six and one in seven residents in America is an illegal alien. America has suffered the greatest demographic shift in modern history. The fundamental transformation of America has begun.

I state, with complete certainty, that Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas intentionally, strategically, and purposely weaponized illegal immigration and used it as a tool to fundamentally transform America. J. J. Carrell

Here is my opening statement from the Joint Border Security and Enforcement and Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee Hearing @WorldviewTube pic.twitter.com/mgIf9cs9EJ— J.J. Carrell (@JJCarrell14) November 19, 2024

Watch live now here: https://t.co/n1LRvVnp6R— J.J. Carrell (@JJCarrell14) November 19, 2024

By the numbers

MacDonald quoted Breitbart for more detailed figures:

U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies has found that under Biden and Mayorkas, the foreign-born population has reached an unprecedented 51.6 million as of March of this year.

The rise in the foreign-born population under Biden is equivalent to nearly two years of births in the U.S. and larger than the populations of 33 states.

And no doubt Gov. Hobbs and Senator-elect Gallego want that to continue, on the theory that they’ll vote reliably Democratic. President-elect Trump proposes to remove 10 million, starting with those who, having already broken the law to come to America, committed other crimes in America. They might include Jose Ibarra, who flew into America on one of Joe Biden’s charter flights. A Georgia court yesterday convicted him of rape and murder in the death of Laken Riley, a nursing student in Athens, Georgia, in February of this year. The prosecution asked only for life without the possibility of parole, and the court handed down that sentence.

They might also include an illegal alien arrested yesterday in New York City for robbing one of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s assistant prosecutors.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) does not agree with using the military to handle deportations. He believes a “domestic police agency” should handle that job. Presumably that would be the uniformed force of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. He estimated that only 28,000 illegal aliens have committed crimes in-country beyond the crime of unlawful entry.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has offered a 1400-acre tract of farmland in Starr County, Texas, for building a detention compound. He instructed Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham to write to President-elect Trump to convey that offer. Border Czar-designate Homan told Laura Ingraham yesterday that the Second Trump administration will accept that gift.

A fortress of resistance?

With 1400 acres for a detention facility, the mass deportation operation wouldn’t need detention facilities in any “blue” States. (“Red” States would cooperate far more readily.) But one “blue State” mayor has actually vowed to oppose the deportations – on a level of physical violence.

Mayor Mike Johnston (D-Denver, Colo.), in an interview with a local outlet, said he would use “city police and local volunteers” to block any attempt to arrest, detain, or transport illegal aliens out of his city or the State of Colorado. All that Trump had said was that he would defund any “sanctuary city.” But Mayor Johnston raised the stakes. He began by confidently asserting that Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) would not let Trump call on the Colorado National Guard.

Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don’t know where they would find the forces to begin to do that. And that seems to me like a very, very bad idea from start to finish that no reasonable American would support.

Did he just, a priori, call the family of Laken Riley “unreasonable”?But then he said worse:

More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there. It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.

The problem is that everyone knows that Denver is home to several Venezuelan gangsters. George Behizy isn’t at all sure that the Denver Police would obey orders to protect that sort of person.

I bet every cop would disobey that soyboy’s orders.

BREAKING: The Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado, issued a statement saying that he will use City Police and citizens to physically block federal forces from deporting illegals.

The Denver metro is famously home to a large population of illegal migrant Venezuelan gangsters.… pic.twitter.com/hK1DgiEQpv— George (@BehizyTweets) November 21, 2024

Mike Davis of the Article III Project pointed out sharply that the law would be on Trump’s side.

Conspiracy. Obstruction. Assault on federal officers. So many more very serious federal felonies.

Conspiracy.

Obstruction.

Assault on federal officers.

So many more very serious federal felonies. https://t.co/2R64uk5Uyl— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 21, 2024

Another user outlined how Mayor Johnston could face charges of Conspiracy Against Rights and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. He pointed out that Denver residents who suffer when those Venezuelan gangsters commit crimes against them, might consider themselves oppressed.

Just a quick look over:

To analyze the legal implications, I’ll outline the potential 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights) and 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States or Violate Federal Law) violations.

18 U.S.C. § 241: Conspiracy Against Rights

Under §…— Loxx (@algxtradingx) November 21, 2024

Anyone else game for civil war?

Apparently Mayor Johnston isn’t entirely alone in posturing for civil war against the Second Trump Administration. Gov. J. B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) said something similar, but far less detailed:

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Border Czar-designate Homan replied, in an interview with Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk:

Game on. We’ve got no problem going through him.

And in greater detail:

I’ve got 20,000 men and women in ICE who are going to do their job with no apology. Congress has enacted a law that protects this country. People need to understand… entering this country illegally is a crime. Every illegal alien in this country committed a crime to get here. So they’re all criminals.

And look, there’s some worse than others, I get that. And even if they’re not a criminal alien, when you cross that border and you overwhelm the border patrol… that’s when the fentanyl comes across to kill a quarter-million people. That’s when you have a 600% increase in sex trafficking. That’s when you have a record number of terrorists crossing the border. Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.

We’re gonna enforce the law without apology… and if any governor wants to stand in the way, go ahead and do it. We’ll see what happens. We’re not gonna be intimidated. Tom Homan

Gov. Pritzker – and Gov. Polis, and Mayor Johnston – might want to consider something else. Vice-President Kamala Harris carried both States with 54 percent of the vote – and that vote does not evenly distribute itself. Chicago is an island of blue in a sea of red – and Chicago residents are getting fed up with illegal aliens themselves. Denver is another island of blue in a sea of red. Texas National Guardsmen could cross the Oklahoma Panhandle – in House District 3, where Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) ran unopposed for reelection – and enter Colorado in Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) new District, which she won with 54 percent of the vote. Alabama National Guardsmen could land at DFW, or AMA (Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport) and stage from there. To say nothing of Unauthorized Colorado, Oklahoma, and/or Texas Militias.

Does the Mayor of Denver really think he can withstand siege in a leftist civil war? If so, it would indeed be “game on.” No doubt the irony that he, a leftist, and not President-elect Trump or any of his allies, called for civil war first, is lost on Mayor Johnston. And contrary to his opinion, the support would be on Trump’s side, not his.