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Mark Caserta: Political Bickering, False Narratives, and the Cost to Minnesota

30 Jan

Whose interest is being served in Minneapolis?

Political bantering today is replete with false narratives and froward assumptions. When truth is absent from an argument, the only way to sustain it is to begin with a completely false supposition.

Such is increasingly the case with progressive leadership in Minnesota.

I frequently hear talking points—and see protest signs—declaring, “I support the people of Minnesota.” While this sounds noble, it collapses under even minimal scrutiny.

Does allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the city—while straining healthcare systems, overwhelming schools, and compromising public safety—truly improve the lives of Minnesotans?

Based on reporting from numerous sources, many of the protestors are neither residents of the city nor the state. Others appear to be paid antagonists, deployed to inflame tensions, disrupt civic order, and manufacture chaos. Meanwhile, local businesses suffer, schools are disrupted, and respect for the rule of law erodes. One must ask: how does any of this benefit Minneapolis?

Ironically, these same protestors decry the presence of law enforcement, while leadership’s refusal to cooperate with federal agencies—such as ICE and Customs and Border Protection—forces law enforcement into unnecessarily complex and dangerous operations. Instead of a single coordinated arrest, officers must deploy multiple layers of personnel: one team to locate and apprehend the individual, another to secure the scene, and still others to manage potential unrest.

This escalation is not only inefficient—it is avoidable.

If local leadership cooperated with federal authorities, individuals already in custody could be transferred cleanly and quietly. Fewer officers. Less disruption. Lower risk to the community. Fundamental common sense is missing from this approach.

Worse still, some leaders appear to welcome the chaos, perhaps as a convenient distraction from the billions of dollars lost through massive fraud at the city and state level. While attention is diverted, the lives and futures of Minnesotans are diminished by the very officials elected to protect them.

Three Steps Forward

In my humble opinion, three immediate actions are necessary:

  • Identify and shut down the financial sources funding faux protest movements. Once the money dries up, many of these “activists” will promptly head back to their basements.
  • Direct local law enforcement to cooperate fully with federal authorities. This would allow Border Czar Tom Homan to reduce the federal presence and ease tensions across affected communities.
  • Hold all lawbreakers accountable—without exception. This includes officials at every level of authority, up to and including the Governor, Attorney General, and Mayor.
  • Restore order, complete the mission, and exit swiftly.

Final Thought

It is everyone’s hope that lessons are learned, criminals are held to account, and other cities take note of the damage that results when leaders ignore the law and encourage protests that exceed constitutional boundaries.

Where there is no law, nothing good follows.

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Mark Caserta: Federal Law Enforcement working only to resolve Democrat open border policy.

27 Jan

I’ve written commentary for 25 years, long enough to realize I can’t change many minds over any emotional issue.

But let’s be clear in analyzing the situation.

The only reason ice agents and border patrol agents’ presence in our cities is heightened at this time is because liberal Democrat politicians have opened our borders to millions of illegal, unvetted individuals – period.

These illegals take refuge, largely, in sanctuary cities where their needs are provided at the expense of the taxpayer.

Some of these individuals entered the United States because they are criminals and have, sadly, continued their criminal activity in the cities.

Notably, many of these individuals did not come into this country to commit crimes, but committed a crime by coming into our country illegally.

When sanctuary city leadership does not comply with federal law-enforcement, it is very difficult to identify the hardened criminals from the ones who simply did not follow our immigration laws.

This situation forces ice agents to have to scour communities looking for and vetting criminals, which can be unsettling.

Our law-enforcement agents are not here to foment violence, quite the opposite. They are here to protect our citizens and enforce our laws.

Sadly, sanctuary city leaders are emboldening, and often paying protesters to insight violence and obstruct this process.

Even sadder, is the fact that some of these individuals want to incite a shooting so it can be captured on a cell phone and used to build an illegitimate argument against law-enforcement.

We are a nation of laws made by our elected officials. These officers cannot pick and choose which laws to enforce. They are here to serve and protect.

And they deserve protection in the process.

Let’s bring the heat and the rhetoric down. Let’s dispense with the conspiracy theories and allow our law enforcement agents to do their jobs.

These very law-enforcement people whom some would denigrate, are the first people they would call in case of an emergency.

Finally, this is not a move by the federal government to create a police state and move toward a monarchy.

This is simply an effort to remove people who are here illegally, with the primary focus on the criminal component.

Working with law enforcement will bring down the emotion and enable the process to be looked at through a much clearer lense.

Working against law enforcement who are simply enforcing the law, set in place by the people we elected, will only prolong the current state.

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