Local cops can end the Minnesota violence, lefties want no deportations and other commentary

To prevent “violence involving federal officers” in Minneapolis, local officials can simply order “police to cooperate” with ICE, explains The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn.Such cooperation would let federal law enforcement “be handled quietly and without incident.” ICE operations in Minnesota require “not only agents to arrest the wanted person but others to protect them.

Ideally that role is handled by local police.” Meanwhile, Gov.Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey “stoke the flames, perhaps because the unrest helps divert attention” from the $9 billion fraud scandal that occurred on their watch.

Certainly, former Minnesota Gov.Tim Pawlenty is right to note that the lack of local cooperation is what explains the “so much of the dysfunction” in Minnesota.Despite majority approval for “deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,” the Trump administration faces “the practical difficulty of deporting people,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.

It was relatively easy to “cut border incursions to nearly zero,” but already-here illegal immigrants with “teams of lawyers, advocates, and street activists on their side” are tough to dislodge.Places like Texas “deport 10 times the number of illegal aliens” as Minneapolis, without the street chaos because ICE has “the cooperation and support of local law enforcement.” But agitators in Minnesota aren’t demanding that ICE be kinder to deportees; “they want to stop the deportations” entirely.

So the real question is, “Can the forces resisting federal law enforcement in Minneapolis nationalize the struggle?”The Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin cheers The Bench, a new outfit “seeking to organize and support” Democratic “candidates who fit the bill for politically viable generational change.” It aims to ID “candidates who fit the bill for politically viable generational change” and help change “the negative public face of Democrats.” Th...