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Jan 19, 2026 / 09:34 am (CNA).
Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron has called on federal immigration officials to focus on deporting only serious criminals while also urging U.S. protesters to “cease interfering” with the work of immigration agents.
The bishop’s plea comes amid heightened national tensions in response to mass deportations and the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.
Barron issued the statement on Jan. 18 via X. A native of Chicago, he was made bishop of the southern Minnesota diocese in 2022.
The prelate made the remarks as officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue enhanced deportations of immigrants in the country illegally. The mass deportation effort is a major part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy in his second term.
Tensions were heightened greatly on Jan. 7 when an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis as she apparently engaged in a protest of ICE enforcement in the city.
Good had partially blocked a street with her car and was approached by ICE agents, who ordered her out of the vehicle; when she attempted to speed away, she allegedly struck ICE agent Jonathan Ross with her car. Ross shot and killed her in response. The killing generated national outrage and major protests throughout the country.
‘There is a way out’
Barron, who regularly weighs in on Catholic and other issues in the public sphere, said on X that his “heart is breaking” over the “violence, retribution, threats, protests, deep suspicion of one another, political unrest [and] fear” that has spread throughout Minnesota in recent weeks.
Offering “a modest proposal” for resolving “this unbearable state of affairs,” Barron urged immigration officials to “limit themselves, at least for the time being, to rounding up undocumented people who have committed serious crimes.”
As a resident of Minnesota and as bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, my heart is breaking over the situation in my home state. Violence, retribution, threats, protests, deep suspicion of one another, political unrest, fear—all of it swirling around all the time. May I…
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) January 18, 2026
“Political leaders should stop stirring up resentment against officers who are endeavoring to enforce the laws of the country,” he continued. “And protestors should cease interfering with the work of ICE.”
Americans, meanwhile, “must stop shouting at one another and demonizing their opponents.”
“Where we are now is untenable. There is a way out,” the bishop said.
Minneapolis is only the latest flashpoint in ongoing national unrest over the federal government’s immigration actions, one that has touched the U.S. Catholic Church in numerous ways.
Multiple U.S. bishops have issued dispensations from Mass for those who are afraid of being arrested and deported, including the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Diocese of San Bernardino, and numerous others.
In December of 2025, ICE agents arrested a Catholic church employee in Minnesota, after which they surveilled the parish, with the church pastor claiming the agents were “terrorizing” locals “just by their presence.”
Church leaders have regularly attempted to reach out to immigrants who have been targeted for deportation by ICE. In November 2025, Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila and Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez led the Stations of the Cross at an ICE detention facility in Aurora, while prelates such as Lincoln Bishop James Conley have urged the government to allow pastoral access to detained immigrants.
At their November 2025 plenary assembly, the U.S. bishops declared their opposition to the indiscriminate mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally. The bishops urged the government to respect the dignity of migrants as well.
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It’s unfortunate the Bishop doesn’t want to address the fact the agitation is fomented and organized, guided by one strategic principle:
In a democratic society, when the people become displeased by their elected, they can change them. In our form of government-democratic despotism, the elected and their symbiotes in the permanent bureaucratic state, academia and the media are enraged by the people and so they are changing them, through invasion, ignorance and self-hatred, dependency and moral debasement.
The good Bishop appears to trying to straddle the issue. Affirm the right of the Administration to deport illegal aliens, but restrict actual deportation to violent criminals.
Will such a halfway measure actually work? At some point, the Bishop may need to make a choice.
Bishop Barron is taking a rational middle ground, but if it doesn’t work it will primarily because Trump is a sadist who hides behind the law. Many good conservative businessmen are having their businesses dismantled by unreasonable roundups that have caused economic devastation to their families and their communities–all this would have been unnecessary had Trump not sabotaged bipartisan interest comprehensive immigration reform that included a regulated guest worker program.
Two things – illegal aliens have been warned repeatedly they must return to their home country and use a legal pathway to obtain a green card or other legal means to work in the USA. There are no excuses for staying illegally in the nation. Second thing, Congress needs to reform the immigration process that will allow foreign workers – that are certainly needed – to enter the nation legally in a streamlined process. There is no reason to delay doing something that is needed.
Unfortunately, the aim of people like Musk and Stephen Miller is to replace Catholic “illegals” with pagan “legals” from India. Poor USA.
It would be interesting to be able to compare the crime rate of South Asian immigrants compared to the crime rate among immigrants from Latin Ammerica, most of whom are baptized Catholics. I suspect that most of the members of MS-13 and Trend de Aragua and other such gangs are baptized Catholics. Is there any comparable problem among South Asian immigrants, Hindi or Catholic (some are in fact Christian)?
Mark-I was intrigued by your post (you said the quite part out loud) so I went down the rabbit hole looking for data. To summarize: Asian immigrants have much lower arrest and incarnation rates than Hispanic immigrants (with the exception of Laotians and Cambodians). And both have lower crime and incarceration rates about 30% less than native‑born whites overall. However, here is the ugly part: native‑born Hispanic men were nearly seven times more likely to be in prison than foreign‑born Hispanic men, while native‑born non‑Hispanic white men were almost three times more likely to be incarcerated than foreign‑born white men. I didn’t find corresponding data for second generation Asians, but there is evidence second generation Asians also have higher rates compared to first generation. Much of this data is several years old so it isn’t clear how the latest wave of immigrants compare.
Thanks Ron! Very interesting.
So a law-abiding pagan USA is better than a more Catholic USA with a slightly less law-abiding population? What squirming.
When pagans are more Catholic than Catholics, absolutely.
Yes, many South Asians are Catholics: the Philippines, South India, etc.
I worked with a nice Indian fellow. He was legal, productive and amiable. His last name was Thomas, as in St. Thomas and was part of a line of Catholics that traced their Catholicism to the apostle. So much for categorizing all Indians all as “pagans”.
Some had ancestors Christians a long time before some Europeans were Goths, Vandals and Visigoths.
The tribality we see in the Indian Nepotism on full display in Fed Ex’s C Suite has been practiced by Latinos, Irish, italians….
Unfortunately, 95% of the current migration of Indians is non-Christian. So their influence is paganising. The generalisation is correct. I know nice Christian Indians too.
We’ve known nice non-Christian Indians.
Why is this “unfortunate?” Professed religious affiliation has no bearing on the very proper distinction of legal and illegal.
It has a bearing on the religious identity of the country in the future. A pagan secularist non-Christian USA – most unfortunate.
Christianity ought to teach us that the very notion of social engineering is not only repulsive to Christianity, but the exact opposite of Christianity.
I believe that people brought here as children through no fault of their own deserve a break. Especially if they’ve grown up in our communities and have been an asset.
We’ll be running short of young people in our workforce in the not too distant future. Why send decent people back at taxpayers’ expense when they already speak English, have been educated in our schools, and contribute to their communities?
Our immigration and work visa laws aren’t written in stone. They can be changed, applied with discretion, exceptions made,etc. Civil laws were created to serve man, not the other way around. As Governor Rick Perry said, you can enforce the law and still have a heart.
Define “break” and “asset”.
A break= Work visas, legal residency, or a path to citizenship.
We have young people who were brought here through no fault of their own and are very hardworking assets in their community . I’ve known a few. I voted for Trump 3 times & most folks locally did too, but they have a heart for people who’ve grown up here & attended school & church with their own children.
One of my daughter’s best friends in parochial school was brought here that way as a young child. She and her brother both were awarded scholarships to private Catholic high schools. Instead of playing on the computer or hanging out with friends she cleaned houses after school & weekends with her mother. Last I heard they found someone to sponsor the family & were in some kind of process to normalize their immigration status.
“We have young people who were brought here through no fault of their own”
If you have children and engage in criminal behavior, the sad reality is those children are going to face massive disruption to their lives. Should children be separated from their parents simply because their parents were “afraid to come out of the shadows” as “undocumented taxpayers”? What if they are “undocumented pharmacists or distillers” or “nontraditional procurement specialists”,
I’ve noted this sort of appeal plays will with the weak-minded. It might be some sort of projected maternal instinct or in some cases the inability subordinate emotion to reason. You’ll have to tells us why you feel (notice I said feed and not think) this way.
This is how the left operates. They always pursue the general proposition by citing exceptions. Abortion: But what about in cases of rape and incest? They always invent the exception to complicate laws they don’t like and then with a foot in the door, call in the battering rams to break it down.
Michael. I agree that undocumented immigrants should be returned to their home country. However, two issues remain. ICE wants to use brute force, lacking a reasonable, humane process, and they fled in fear for their lives back home.
Seems we no longer will offer “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses seeking to be breathe free …”
First of all illegal invaders are not “undocumented immigrants”. Immigrants enter lawfully. “Undocumented” is a piece of deceptive verbal engineering designed to minimize intentional law breaking as some sort of paperwork deficiency.
Second, law enforcement/the constabulary generally uses “brute force” when evasion, obstruction or resistance occurs. The sine qua non of enforcement is the possession and commission to use force including lethal force.
If I drive in excess of the posted speed limit and don’t promptly pull over, provide my operators license and proof of insurance or escalate the situation by obstruction, threatening or engaging violence to the officer, I’m going to be met with “brute force”.
Additionally, let’s assume that I (6-1 245 pound gym rat) do any of these things with some five foot five inch 130 pound female officer. She would have no choice other than to skip the physical suppression phase of the “continuum of force” and if not equipped with a debilitating device (less lethal, but can still kill in some circumstances upon deployment) taser, is going to resort using her sidearm and attempting to drop a 9MM slug in my “center of mass”.
“Undocumented immigrants” My guess is that if you were in Guyana, you would have drunk the Kool-aid.
More disturbing is citing Emma Lazarus, an unmarried pseudo-intellectual 19th century professional activist as if her words were some sort of law or commission we are bound to follow.
I more prefer the injunction of economist Milton Friedman-who, while I’ve discovered as I’ve gotten older wasn’t quite as deft a sage of public policy as I once thought- starkly stated the mutually exclusive choices of a welfare state and unlimited immigration, but not both.
He likely doesn’t live there but likely has drunk so much K-A he became one with it.
Mr. morgan, Law enforcement officers only resort to force when someone is non compliant. That’s the same rule whether the detained/arrested suspect is a citizen or not.
My late brother served as a law enforcement officer & I don’t think we give them a fraction of the credit & appreciation they deserve for putting their lives on the line for us daily. When I meet someone in law enforcement I thank them for their service.
MorganD: well put.
MorganD: The same old leftist tripe.
Br. Jaques: Appeals to sentiment should displace not bearing false witness, even within characterizations?
Yes, but they were completely and throughly vetted; they didn’t get a free pass. To be honest, I don’t understand how tax or federal dollars can go towards illegal entries and then ignore citizens and their problems.
Michael B…your proposal is the logical one. It involves productive action to allow legal immigration. Unfortunately, neither of this nation’s primary political parties wants a solution. The elected officials stay in office by using immigrants to keep the electorate divided. As long as the majority of Americans blindly vote solely by political parties, there will be no solution.
If there is a wise voice in this society, it is Bishop Barron. He does say for a time only to focus on the severe criminals. There are more of them than we know.
I do believe this resistance is organized and more than just resistance. There are foreign powers organizing and funding the infiltration of the western world to destroy it, especially the United States. This organized “war” on the west has been working to infiltrate and change our US society for many years. See the new book being released today by Peter Schweizer’s forthcoming book ‘The Invisible Coup’ documents alleged coordinated influence efforts by China, Islam (especially Qatar), Mexico and coordinated communistic/socialistic groups and organizations.
The Schweizer book was released today, and is currently the #1 book on Amazon. I heard part of an interview with him yesterday, and some of his claims are truly terrifying for the future of the US
Our clergy should encourage all people including migrants to obey the law. There is a lawful way to enter the USA. We should not turn a blind eye to law breaking.
The hierarchy would NEVER countenance the evasion of Title 26 (Internal Revenue Code) or call tax evaders “undocumented taxpayers” or use some other deceptive language to diminish the illegality of tax evasion, offer aid and comfort to tax evaders or militate on their behalf for amnesty. Hell they won’t advocate for people like the young man who began trading online during COVID after he lost his job, and unaware of “wash sale” rules incurred $800,000 taxable income on a net gain of $60,000.
Yet all those things happen on behalf of those who violate Title 8. Either obeying civil law is a derivative requirement of the Fourth Commandment or it is not.
Pitchfork – you are correct. After spending most of my MLK day sorting paperwork to just prepare for doing my taxes I’m in a bit of a mood. I can spend untold hours doing my taxes only to get a letter from the IRS saying “You owe us another $500.” Do they explain why? Nope. Just a letter giving you 30 days to send a check. Apparently, in the US you can steal millions of taxpayer money and nobody cares, but make a mistake (or not) on your return, and they are on you like white on rice.
Thank you.
Although I am not in public practice, I am a CPA do have to keep up with taxes as part of maintaining my license. I did some returns for some family members until I had a health issue and told them I’d rather not screw something up.
One year my Aunt then in her mid 70’s & now in her late ’80’s called in a complete panic because she got an “audit by mail” letter from the IRS about a return from two or three years prior.
The issue was two documents the IRS said weren’t supplied. One was supplied to the IRS and they apparently lost it. (still filing paper returns then) The other was for a new account she opened and forget to tell me about and the 1099 arrived after we filed. Fortunately, the one they lost had no additional liability.
The whole thing, taxes, interest and penalties was less than $20, but until I could put a number on it, she was absolutely terrified. She is a military widow and lost my uncle when he was 64 due lung cancer. An enlistee in the late 50’s or very early 60’s he served honorably for 20 years and the cheap cigarettes that the Px had to keep the troops wired up no doubt contributed to his early death. Lovely how they treat military widows, isn’t it?
You’ll never hear a priest or bishop complain about the IRS, no matter how complicated, exhausting and unfair the tax code is to citizens who can’t avoid it. It’s galling.
The tax CPA in the office I was working in was not taking additional clients, and sent them to H & R. I’ve heard this is the case being much more selective as there’s not enough help to handle all the requests on what now is mostly electronic filing.
The government will assist military widows with what I believe is called “Aid and Attendance,” for surviving spouses who never remarried and need assistance with their daily living needs. It helped with our mother because of our father’s WW II service.
It is good to see Bishop Barron acting like a statesman, considering multiple perspectives and charting an honorable course. Now that he has his own diocese, and is no longer an auxiliary to anyone else, Bishop Barron is coming into his own, speaking his own mind. I’m really grateful for his voice.
JRM: He should give up his job as bishop and make application for work in the State Department.
Your finely honed nail is sharp and true, hitting its target well too.
I agree, Ms Morse. It seems that Bishop Barron always has the measured response, the response that will drive unification not discord, at hand, and heart.
While the goal of deporting DANGEROUS immigrants is good, the means being used is wrong. Racial profiling IS being done. Latinos are being indiscriminately rounded up and taken away by force without being allowed to present their case. Agents are dressed in a way meant to terrorize and are allowed to detain people without proper papers or due cause. Laws are being overlooked and abuse and great psychological damage is being done. Many legal and innocent people are being harmed and intimidated and this is wrong. Minor children are witnessing parents and loved ones being brutally assaulted and hauled off leaving them alone. This is evil and wrong. These abuses need to be protested against. As Christians our protest must be peaceful and we must speak out and distance ourselves from all violence. While we shouldn’t try to stop ICE agents we should be free to document their actions and publish them. They are not above the law and must be made accountable. It is not OK to restrain non violent people or to enter private property without allowing person to read a written warrant. It is wrong to indiscriminately enter places of employment and forcefully detain people on the basis of their skin color or other physical attributes. I thought that in this county you are presumed to be innocent UNTIL proven guilty. It seems that laws and procedures are being bent and abused and no one is doing anything about it. Freedoms and liberties are being compromised and lost. Groups of people are being labeled and marginalized. We are headed toward a one party system where no opposition or differing opinion is tolerated. Is this what we really want?
We must allow our citizens to protest things that they oppose. We have the duty to insure that it is done peacefully, but peacefull assembly must be allowed. We must be allowed to freely disagree with our government without being treated as a traitor.
More DNC, MSNBC, and NPR talking points, par for the course. None of what you are proposing is actually happening. You watch too much Rachel Maddow.
It’s almost hilarious how poorly informed and bereft of reasoning skills James Conner is.
He claims Latinos are being indiscriminately rounded up and no doubt uses that word as a substitute or conflates it with the word predominately.
In 2021, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that there were 11.2M illegal invaders in the United States and estimated the number by country of origin.
The results were astonishingly concentrated.
Mexico 5.2M
Guatemala 780K
El Salvador 751K
Honduras 564K
Venezuela 251K
Columbia 201K
Brazil 195K
That’s 7.942M or about 5 in 7 of all illegals come from those seven countries.
Latinos are being interdicted because it they are the majority of illegals who entered or remained illegally.
You appear to have missed the oft stated point that the vast majority of those who are being arrested have ALREADY had their day in court and were CONVICTED and ordered to leave the country. Some of them multiple times, and should have left the country as ordered. (unless they are in a blue sanctuary state in which case they are released on the street to kill someone else.) They have HAD their day in court, and the decision was made by a judge.
Arrest is NOT the same as “brutal assault” and any physical altercation will come about because the illegal being arrested is refusing to cooperate in their arrest. Having this happen in front of their kids became a calculated possibility OF THEIR CHOOSING once they broke our laws in whatever fashion they did. MANY of the most violent of these criminals do in fact have kids. So what? That is not a “get out of jail free” card. It isnt for any domestic criminal, many of whom I am sure have been arrested in front of their kids. Or does their foreign status entitle them to special treatment as you suggest?
Finally as for racial profiling, the vast majority of illegals who flowed into the country during the negligent Biden era, were primarily from Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as China. So if Latinos are the majority of illegals and lawbreakers, that is who the cops are coming for. Race has NOTHING to do with this. Crime does. Failed to notice, did you, that those 20 million illegals were not from Ireland???
Leftists care not one iota about immigrants. Theirs is just an opportunity to use the issue to pursue their goal of instigating anarchy. It’s just that there are too many compassionate dolts around to see it for what it is.
Thank you Dr Morse. I agree.
Recommended reading – ‘Rules for Radicals’ by Saul Alinsky.
It is always wise to know the ways of one’s adversary.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?
–Nothing stops us as individuals to show how nice we are; just let any poor person on the street, or any poor woman with children on the street to come into our houses and let us let them settle there, in the living room, or basement, or second bedroom; and feed them eetc. Instead, some of us want to force the rest of us to pay for public housing, feeding, etc. to comply with the “give me your poor etc.” Sounds like what the Vatican people do: punish any illegal immigrant that trespasses into the Vatican, but keep telling others to accept them. This sounds very Pharisaic. See how the Pope’s state treats illegals:
Vatican Promises Stiff Penalties for Illegal Aliens Crossing its Border
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/16/vatican-promises-stiff-penalties-for-illegal-aliens-crossing-its-border/
–See what has happened to Englaind; the native population is being rapidly replaced by uncontrolled immigration, both illegal and legal
https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/london-how-you-can-conquer-a-country-with-demography
–The USA does not need more workers as is repeatedly said in the forum and elsewhere; AI is rapidly replacing workers and soon even trade jobs will be replaced by robots.
If anyone thinks the Left in this country care a hoot about illegal immigrants then I’d say you’re certifiably insane. The Left uses illegal immigrants as yet another opportunity to wield their anarchistic sword. As I see it, the Left are nothing more than agents of Satan. Prove me wrong. The problem in the USA is that we’ve raised a few generations of gullible dolts.
You’re wrong on the food side and the construction – and I’m against wholesale, unabated immigration. Americans either will not or cannot do many of these jobs.
Employment is like any other good; subject to the laws of supply and demand.
Typically the inadequacy of American labor is posited by commercial interests or their stenographers at some think tanks is incomplete.
It would be more accurate to say Americans won’t do job X with this addendum: [At the price we want to pay]. I have no sympathy for people that build businesses or industries that are built on needing a steady stream of recent arrivals who have limited education or language skills that serve as an impediment to occupational mobility.
They will not or cannot do certain jobs; they’ve been trained since the 50s to be a doctor, lawyer or other professional. Now the kids want to play video games even as adults, including my own. (they do have jobs though)
We had a farmer here in MI, I’d say over 10 years ago, that could not get his asparagus harvested due to a lack of migrant workers/some foul up at the federal level on the permits; the locals would come out for a few hours but most could not take it, even at 14 an hr, which would probably be 20 now with inflation. It has to be picked very frequently and you sit in a cart that is pulled etcc.. He said he disced under a million dollars worth of crop that spring due to a lack of labor.
About 15 or 20 yrs ago CBS news interviewed a strawberry farmer about the lack of Americans willing to do his type of work and he said their family has experienced that since the 50s. He pointed to a Mexican picking the strawberries and asked the reporter, “How much do you think he makes an hour, and he gets partially paid for production?” the answer was $30 an hr, but he added they couldn’t get hardly any Americans that want to do that type of work.
You may have seen that TV show with the guy reporting on the dirty work in America? and what about all these young men that don’t want to work and live with their parents? The America I grew up in at least a high percentage of the young people had to go out and try and find work.
I don’t want to sound like I’m being mean but the obesity crisis in this country is getting worse, not better.
On the farm we’ve just gone to mechanization as much as we can and more to offset the unaffordable wages but certain things like picking apples have to be done by hand. One of the farmers from our church added robots about 10 years ago because the workers would not show up for the milking on too many occasions and they couldn’t take care of their youngsters and have to go out and milk cows at 5 am without notice. The robots work pretty well but it was a big dollar outlay.
$30/hr for a seasonal, outdoor job no possibility of advancement and no benes?
Not nearly as generous as you imagine.
Our local farmers pay $15.an hour to migrant workers which is double the state minimum wage. Mexican workers are more dependable per the farmers.
How disappointing but not unexpected to see the Bishop stand on the side of the illegals. The church that once taught that a good citizen obeyed the laws now comes down on the side of the law breakers, no matter who gets hurt in the process. Forgotten are the VICTIMS of the illegals. Only arrest the bad guys?? Define that. The ones that rape your daughters? The ones who kill people as truckers who cant speak English or read the road signs? The ones convicted of DWI? The ones feeding off of tax dollars which rightfully should go to our own citizens (like the blue state Somalis), to support our schools or fix our roads? Newsflash. They are ALL bad guys who ignored our laws and strain our resources. We owe them NOTHING.
If the Bishop believes we are shouting at “each other”, he has not watched the news. The hysterical shouting, throwing of objects with intent to injure, trying to run over officers with cars is ALL coming from the LEFT. I have yet to see a counter demonstration from the right or seen any overt violence directed at the criminal illegals. Even press people have been attacked by these leftists , and worse.
A church was invaded in the middle of worship a few days ago. Grown left wing adults shouted at children and the adult church goers were verbally attacked for having the nerve to be white. Freedom of religion is a thing in the US. I hope that ALL of those church rioters are arrested and jailed, hopefully for a long time.
Barron even lacked the gumption to call out Frey and Waltz by name it would appear for their highly inflammatory rhetoric urging citizens to further take sides, take photos, anything to stop law enforcement. Saying “everyone” has to cool down is effective denial of the truth. The violence is and always has, come from the LEFT.
Really Bishop, you can do better than this.
And I object to this author saying in a manner devoid of context that Renee Good was “shot and killed” by an ICE officer. Good had been blocking the road, refused an officer’s directive to exit the car, then aimed the car at an officer who WAS HIT, according to the hospital which reported he had internal bleeding. He fired in self defense. Words without context have the ability to sway the uninformed. Which thankfully is not all of us.
We read, “The bishops urged the government to respect the dignity of migrants as well.”
I submit that the bishops urge the “migrants” to respect the dignity of our immigration law.
Perfect.
Ink pen challenge…
Can anyone fathom that we have a convicted criminal sitting at the Resolute Desk while SCOTUS issues absolute immunity? SCOTUS priorities reveal they are focused on transgender basketball!
Bishop Barron implies ICE and protesters are out of control. He should have included the blatantly sad optics.
Many ICE agents are shown breaking down the door of a home, forcing the owner, who is clad only in his underwear, into sub-zero weather. He was hauled off to a waiting detention vehicle.
Several masked ICE agents clad in US Army garb and brandishing high-powered rifles forcefully removed a woman from her car.
Collateral damage: Thirty-two people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in 2025 – making it the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades, as the Trump administration moved to detain a record number of people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
Pam Bondage has said the killing of Renee Good “WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED.” She was so furious with six federal prosecutors who announced they would resign rather than prosecute the widow of a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent that she fired them before they had a chance to give their notice.
Kristi Noem bloviates, “ICE is simply following the law.”
Sinfully, ICE has scared school children and their parents by surrounding school buildings, causing parents to be afraid of sending their kids to school.
Politicians have exacerbated the problem. Trump has said he will remove federal funding for BLUE “sanctuary” states. Amazingly, he ignores the fact that there are red babies in blue states. The Emperor of Greenland has no clothes.
Out of ink. Watch this space.
Your TDS is clearly out of control…and getting worse by the day.
Bishop Barron implies ICE and protesters are out of control. He should have included the blatantly sad optics.
Many ICE agents breaking down the door of a home, forcing the owner, who is clad only in his underwear, into sub-zero weather. He was hauled off to a waiting detention vehicle.
Several masked ICE agents clad in US Army garb and brandishing high-powered rifles forcefully removed a woman from her car.
Collateral damage: Thirty-two people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in 2025 – making it the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades, as the Trump administration moved to detain a record number of people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
Pam Bondage has said the killing of Renee Good “will not be investigated.” She was so furious with six federal prosecutors who announced they would resign rather than prosecute the widow of a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent that she fired them before they had a chance to give their notice.
Kristi Noem bloviates, “ICE is simply following the law.”
Sinfully, ICE has scared school children and their parents by surrounding school buildings, causing parents to be in fear of sending their kids to school.
Politicians have exacerbated the problem. Trump has said he will remove federal funding for BLUE “sanctuary” states. Amazingly, he ignores the fact that BLUE states have RED babies. The Emperor of Greenland has no clothes.
Watch this space.
Much, much, much more. Out of ink.
Pam “Bondage”?
Do you moonlight for the Babylon Bee Mr. morgan?
🙂
You really should apologize to MorganD for assuming a cisgender identity in the absence of stated pronouns. Don’t you know how cruel that assumption is?
Me, I’d assume Morgan was a reference to the horse breed, but the braying commentary so frequently offered [PRONOUN UNKNOWN AND UNASSUMED} is so much more asinine than equine, so.
Then again, the use of the word “bondage” by that poster might be a Freudian slip regarding personal proclivities or projection from a private ideological prison. I’m guessing the latter.
Thank you Mr Pitchfork. I forgot to add my usual response, “spell out where I did not have the facts. Might be worth it!!
“Many ICE agents breaking down the door of a home, forcing the owner, who is clad only in his underwear, into sub-zero weather. He was hauled off to a waiting detention vehicle.”
I don’t seem to recall you expressing any indignity about the FBI executing a search warrant against the former President using automatic weapons and, while we’re on the subject of underwear rooting through Melania’s underwear drawer.
A clearly contrived and selective indignity.
NEVER addressed by people who take the anti-law enforcement stand is exactly HOW you are supposed to arrest a person who refuses to be arrested, and is actively fighting you in many cases? Do NOTHING, and let them go to commit more violent crime? Sweet talk them into the cop car?? Have you ever watched any of the TV programs which broadcast police officers live body cam footage of REAL criminals evading arrest? I would recommend it to the uninformed. You will be shocked. The criminals shoot, drag police away who are holding onto the cars, run them over if they can, race their cars away from police on public roads at over 100MPH, and often engage in other physical attacks on police. They refuse direct police orders to show their hands, which often does hold a weapon. How do you think so many cops get SHOT AND KILLED every year? Because these criminals are the GOOD GUYS???
I suppose because of your obvious TDS, you didnt see the pictures of the CONVICTED criminals that Trump showed during his speech yesterday.The ones being arrested in place which are safe havens like Minneapolis. Murderers, pedo types. Yeah, sterling citizens all. Thats who you are defending every time you attack ICE or the police for doing their job. When you are racing to arrest hundreds of thousands of violent offenders who the democrats purposely released into the country and continue to REFUSE to turn over to ICE directly as they should, you are going to get the occasional person arrested in a case of mistaken identity. THAT issue is on the uncooperative democrats who CAUSE this problem, not on ICE.
Lost someone I loved in the 9/11 attacks. Take notice that MOST of those muslim murderers had OVERSTAYED their VISA. Yet nobody from our govt came looking for them thought that allowing people to stay here illegally was any bog problem. How different would our lives be now if someone HAD come looking for them? Now we are up to our butt in criminal illegals. Ask yourself if you continue to support the leftist stand on this issue, WHO in your family you are willing to sacrifice in the next 9/11??? Because that is what will happen eventually if these people are not removed with dispatch. These are not good guys picking grapes. They are violent people who are killing and injuring our citizens, family, friends. Make your choice. Who is expendable to you in this cause? The clock is ticking.
Perhaps Mr morgan hasn’t watched an episode of “Cops” recently. Suspects can get hauled out of vehicles or arrested in their underwear on a regular basis.
And they’re US citizens.
It doesn’t take too much work to “demonize” armed, masked ICE agents leaping out of vans in front of schools and grocery stores.
I thank all of my responders. However, forgive me, Trump’s syncophants and enablers display an urgency to defend the undefendable and trash the rule of law and accountability. Oh, I forgot, we all saw the most sinful and visible display of anti-Catholicism.
Still have more ink.
Godspeed.
To all responders, I really appreciate the dialogue. However, wild disparaging innuendos are not a fair response. You are much better than that.
Fini…
As I may have mentioned, we must agree that we rely on our political leaders with their oaths for protection under the law. Yes, remove the illegal migrant criminals roaming our streets. But it’s the methods and optics displayed by ICE that are the primary cause of civil uprisings across the nation. No question, here, that illegal methods are frequently being used.
Our democracy has rarely been threatened by internal turmoil and political polarization, especially at this level. We are charged with providing a path to sanity. Our innocent children deserve a secure future.
Godbless.
“Our democracy has rarely been threatened by internal turmoil and political polarization, especially at this level.”
Have you ever hard of this thing called the 1960’s?
Or the 1860’s?
This isn’t a democracy. In theory, it’s a democratic republic.
However, in reality, it’s an democratically despotic, administrative superstate. It’s laughable for people to call this a “democracy”. Did you vote for the head of the IRS or FBI? The Chairman of the Federal Reserve (a private consortium masquerading as a public guardian of a stable currency).
Every election is rigged because a entire groups of people who never paid for the cost of government and often are conspicuously and significant upon it, vote solely with their direct material benefit in mind-making Henry Louis Mencken’s assertion that “every election is an auction in advance of stolen goods” prophecy rather than cynicism. Yes, they get an equal as to those that who pull, rather than ride the cart.
And of course those that elect the “premium plan”, that is making enormous “donations” to politicians get even more favors.
This is why we are an acknowledged $40 trillion dollars in debt at the federal level alone.
Errata:
Every election is rigged because a entire groups of people who never paid for the cost of government and often are conspicuously and significantly dependent upon it, vote solely with their direct material benefit in mind-making Henry Louis Mencken’s assertion that “every election is an auction in advance of stolen goods” prophecy rather than cynicism. Yes, they get an equal say as to those that who pull, rather than ride the cart.
of entire groups
True