Democrats: ICE Is Just Like The Ayatollahs

The Democratic Party is insisting that basic law enforcement action against illegal immigrants, particularly criminal illegal immigrants, is some sort of violation of the American compact. They are, astonishingly, equating the American system with the Iranian ayatollahs in terms of tyranny. 

That is the case currently being made by Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee.

And it’s nuts.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

As President Trump cancels meetings with the Iranian regime, increases the economic pressure and promises imminent help for the protesters being slaughtered in the streets, the Democratic Party’s boss has chimed in. Consider what Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman, has to say:

“From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability,” Mr. Martin wrote Sunday on social media. “Solidarity across borders means opposing authoritarian power everywhere and defending the right to live free from fear and state violence.”

When told that the continuing massacres by Iran’s regime and the tragic, split-second Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good by a U.S. law-enforcement officer aren’t the same, Mr. Martin plunged deeper into moral equivalence.

“If comparing the U.S. to Iran makes you angry, ask why,” he wrote. “Killing protesters. Crushing dissent. Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.”

This is incredibly ironic, as the leader of the DNC — the party that has treated Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the various terror arms of Iran as some sort of half-political organizations, treated the Iranian government as a quasi-innocent in the region — now cites Iran as the repressive power to compare to President Trump, the president who actually struck Iran back in June of last year, blowing up their nuclear facility at Fordow.

It’s also amazing he compares the ayatollahs who are ordering the shooting of thousands of people in the streets to ICE agents enforcing criminal law while obstructed by benighted and misguided people.

“Killing protesters?” The Trump administration is not unleashing ICE to mass-shoot protesters. That’s insane. That’s psychotic.

And disgusting.

Ken Martin is out of his mind. “Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.”

That is absolutely insane. The fact that Ken Martin would say such things is demonstrative of how disconnected the Democratic Party is from reality at its top levels.

He’s not the only one who’s saying this, by the way. Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said on CNN, “We need to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom and independence. They’re protesting largely peacefully on the streets. And they’re being attacked and murdered. And I think, you know, there’s an irony, obviously, in what we see with ICE on America’s streets.”

Peter Baker of The New York Times was on MS NOW, where he declaimed, “People are watching the split screen situation of mass protests in Tehran and mass protests in Minneapolis. And of course, they’re looking to see how a president handles each of them. And while you really can’t compare the substance of these two very important issues happening for different parts of the planet, you can, I think, look at the rule of thumb that Donald Trump brings to it.”

“And I think the rule of thumb is pretty simple,” he continued. “If you’re protesting against a regime he disfavors, he opposes, then you’re heroes. If you’re protesting him or his policies, then you are illegitimate. You’re radicals. You’re radical Left lunatics.”

That’s ridiculous. If you are protesting the Ayatollah’s regime — the one where they murder you if you protest; the one where women are forced to wear hijabs; the one where they spread terrorism all over the region while impoverishing their people to the tune of no water or power in their capital — I don’t see how that is comparable to someone looting gun lockers in ICE vehicles in Minneapolis.

Why do Democrats and the Left embrace this equivalence? The truth is that they make excuses on a consistent basis for some of the worst people in the Middle East while ripping into governments that attempt to fight those people in the Middle East.

There’s been significantly more ire from the mainstream media at Israel for its action in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted action against a terrorist group hiding behind civilians, than there has been against the Iranian government thus far.

The enemy of good sense is the failure to speak basic truths.

There is a deeper agenda at work, of course. And that deeper agenda has to do with a Democratic party point of view that suggests that the importation of a large number of people from outside the United States inherently makes the United States culturally stronger.

That leads to this agenda: Don’t enforce immigration law.

The narrative that is being promoted by the Democrats and by the legacy media is that ICE is willy-nilly mass-arresting people for no reason at all based on the color of their skin.

That is a lie.

The vast majority of people that ICE is detaining and actually arresting after detention are criminals.

The Democrats are hoping that a little chaos and willfully misleading people will convince America to give up on immigration enforcement.

They are wrong.