Leland Vittert’s War Notes: “ICE-Free Zones” ⛔️

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"ICE-Free Zones" ⛔️

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Alert 🚨: The pro-Hamas types in Europe have given up the pretense of "Free Palestine"; now they just openly march calling for the killing of Jews.

Watch tonight📺: Pro-Israel activist Sheila Nazarian on how to stop the spread of anti-Jew violence to America — you could easily argue it's already here.

Coming Showdown‼️

⬇️Democrats want a showdown with President Trump over ICE raids in blue cities.

👀Let me predict a few things.
- 😡Democrats will lose.
- 🤕People will get hurt.

Chicago First ⚠️: Today, America's least popular mayor, Brandon Johnson, declared "ICE-free zones" in his city, Chicago.

‼️Forget for a second the preposterous nature of declaring areas of a city that federal law enforcement can't go…

Thought bubble 💭: If only Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson were as interested in locking up criminals as he is about keeping ICE out — we wouldn't need ICE!

🤔What is the biggest threat to law-abiding citizens of Chicago — ICE or the gang violence Mayor Johnson allows to continue unchecked because he thinks jails are racist?
Body count 🔢: Well, this weekend in Chicago, five were killed and 25 wounded — only one of those incidents included ICE.
- 🚘In fact, the biggest threat involving ICE was when an anti-ICE activist rammed an ICE convoy.
  - ‼️Then came ICE opening fire on the rammer.
  - 🗣️Then came an order for Chicago police to leave ICE alone to deal with a crowd gathering to attack them
Watch 📺: The Chicago police chief had to tell people not to ram federal law enforcement.
- 🎤"If you ram any vehicle, especially that one that contains law enforcement agents, and that's any law enforcement, local, state, federal, county and you do this intentionally this is considered deadly force. Deadly force is anything that can cause great bodily harm or death. When you plow into a vehicle that contains law enforcement agents, you are using deadly force. And they can use deadly force in response to stop you. We need to be clear about these laws," said Chicago Police Dept. Superintendent Larry Snelling.
  - 🤷🏼‍♂️Hard to imagine this needing to be said.

Showdown 🤷🏼‍♂️: How exactly do you keep out ICE?

👮🏼‍♂️Also, if you don't like immigration law, why not work to change the law rather than throw yourself in front of police cars?
- Likely answer 📝: There is very little energy in America to soften immigration law — this is coming mostly from the ultra-progressive elite parts of America.

Look back 👀: When state and local governments tried to stop the enforcement of federal law in the past, it didn't work out well for the states.

Watch tonight 📺: Democratic congressional candidate and anti-ICE protester Kat Abughazaleh.

Then, Bill O'Reilly on the nationwide fight against President Trump by blue states — and President Trump's repeated attempts to send in the National Guard.

Why Jay Jones Matters‼️

🤦🏼The Virginia attorney general race shows us how serious Democrats are about condemning political violence – answer, not very!

Evidence 🧾: Democratic candidate Jay Jones texted that he wanted "two bullets in the head" of the Virginia House speaker — and there is more — CLICK to read the texts.
Reaction 👎🏼: Democrats have roundly condemned the texts (how can't you) but refuse to call for him to drop out of the race.
- 🤔Then there is Mel Cartwright running for the House of Delegates.
  - 🎤She posted on X, "I stand with @jonesjay. Period. End of Statement."
Is he wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️: Vice President JD Vance tweeted out, "The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages. I'm sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race."
- ‼️How can you claim to be against violence and support someone who fantasized about it for attorney general?

Zoom out 👀: Voting already started in Virginia – if Jones drops out, that would effectively give the race to the Republicans.

🤷🏼‍♂️But will keeping him crush the other Democrats?
Watch 📺: Our buddy Chris Cillizza warns it might.

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