Minneapolis Liberals Invent Their Own Border Patrol

The following is an edited transcript excerpt of The Michael Knowles Show.

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Liberals in Minnesota have had it with ICE raids and Border Patrol, so they’ve decided to take matters into their own hands with a novel plan to keep the people they don’t want out of their communities.

They are, quite literally, creating a system to control who comes and goes.

In the middle of the road at 32nd and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, activists erected a makeshift roadblock, turning the intersection into a roundabout. Cars slowed as drivers noticed. Some honked, others asked questions. One man even brought food for the people standing watch.

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When asked how it felt to see a community checkpoint in his neighborhood, one local shrugged it off. It felt “fine,” he said. He didn’t have any trouble with people “helping out.”

Wade Haynes has been standing at that corner twice a day for one reason: to stand up against ICE activity and “keep his community safe.” He chose that corner. Others chose other intersections. He found it inspiring. “Wow,” he said. “We’ve got folks out there who are kind of taking care of us, looking out for us.”

Taking care of them? Looking out for them?

Some might say policing their communities.

And the way they’re doing it is by erecting structures in the street on the corners — stopping points. Some might even call them “borders,” staffed by people who check to make sure that only the right people get into the community, and that the people they don’t want stay out.

Many people, including some on the Right, have questioned President Trump’s tactics in Minneapolis. But you can’t argue with results — and the results of the Minneapolis raids are that Trump got anti-ICE liberals to invent Border Patrol.

That’s the beautiful part.

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Trump actually trolled the Minneapolis Left into reinventing everything they claim to oppose: border patrol, wall checkpoints, cops, enforcement. “We need our own ICE to deport these ICE agents,” they cry, without a trace of irony.

This is what always seems to happen when utopians on the Left — of all stripes — dream up their perfect society.

They start by declaring that society as it exists is no good:

We’ve got markets. We’ve got people making money. We’ve got private property. We’ve got exploitation — we don’t want any of that, man! 

So what are we going to do? We’re going to move to a commune. A farm in the middle of nowhere. It’s going to be beautiful — not like this city, not like this town. We’re going to live together in harmony. Some people are going to grow the food. Some people are going to bake the bread. Some people are going to watch the kids. It’s going to be amazing. We’re going to have a diversity of labor.

Oh, you mean we’re going to have a market economy?

Well, yeah, but this time it will be perfect. And we’re all going to take care of each other, man.

Oh, you mean like police?

Yeah, man.

And so, without realizing it, they invent society as it has always existed — just with the assumption that this time, they’ll do it right.

That’s the problem with our society, they say. We just didn’t do it right.

And now, in Minneapolis, they’ve reinvented Border Patrol.

It’s so beautiful.

So I say: take them at their word.

Yes, we do need people to keep our communities safe.
Yes, we do need checkpoints to keep the people we don’t want out.
Yes, we do need a group of people to take care of the community.

If that’s what they believe, then flood Minneapolis with even more ICE agents, Mr. President.