Sacrificial Lamb

Yesterday in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old mother, Renee Nicole Goode, was shot and killed when she drove her car into an ICE agent as he and his fellow agents were trying to detain her for blocking traffic and obstructing federal law enforcement. Obviously, whenever someone is killed, it is a tragedy. It is something that should not have happened. Not to say that the ICE agent was wrong. He was struck by her moving vehicle and fired shots to protect his life and the lives of his fellow agents. But it was a situation that could have and should have been avoided. But it wasn’t. In fact, it was purposely created by the Democrats.

She is not a hero; she is not a martyr; she is a sacrificial lamb on the altar of Democrat corruption. The Democrats needed an incident like this in order to paint ICE’s activity in Minneapolis and in other sanctuary cities as unlawful, tyrannical, and deadly. And a dead 37-year-old mother fits the bill. To be clear, an incident like this has been building for quite some time. The Democrats and their complicit friends in the mainstream media, have been vilifying ICE agents continually for the past year. They have been stirring up hatred toward them with the sole purpose of creating the conditions for a shooting like this to happen.

This was a 37-year-old single mother of a 6-year-old child. What was she doing leading a protest that could potentially turn violent? What was she doing picking a fight with federal agents? She, like many people on the left, was brain dead. They stopped thinking for themselves years ago. Covid was proof of that. These braindead leftists repeated back the mantras of masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and vaccine mandates like lemmings during 2020. They never think for themselves. They do and say whatever the Democrat politicians and leftwing media tells them to do and say without a thought, without a question. And the reason why the Democrats and the leftwing media continually vilify ICE agents, because they know a person, like this woman, would become so enraged from their rhetoric that she would eventually confront or even attack an ICE agent, causing him to use deadly force, and then they could call for ICE to leave. These are the tactics that the Democrats use. They knew that every time they called Donald Trump a “fascist” or a “Nazi” or “Hitler”, hearing that could inspire one person to take it upon themselves to try to kill President Trump – and two were inspired enough to try.

The death of this woman can be laid at the feet of Joe Biden and the Democrats. They are the ones who decided to open the borders and allow millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to enter this country, recklessly creating a more dangerous and violent society. The list of people who have been killed by illegal immigrants since Joe Biden took office is a mile long. People like, Laken Riley (22), Rachel Morin (37), Jocelyn Nungaray (12), Lizbeth Medina (16), Kayla Hamilton (20), Police Officer David Lee (44), Melissa Powell (47) and her son, Riordan Powell (16), Ivory Smith (7) and Alex Wise Jr. (10), Taliyah Crochet (18), Rylan Oncale (18), Santiago Lopez Morales (48), and Larisha Sharell Thompson, to name a few, are no longer with us because of Biden’s open border policy that President Trump reversed and that the ICE agents are forced to deal with the consequences of. If the left did not shed a tear for anyone of these American citizens who were killed by illegal aliens, they have no right to demand sympathy for the death of a woman who tried to run over a federal agent who was trying to remove violent criminal aliens from our country. ICE would not be in Minneapolis if Biden did not open the border.

After the shooting, right on script, the powerful political players in Minnesota exploited this tragedy as a way to kicking ICE out of their state. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey publicly told ICE, “to get the f**k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.” Minnesota Democrat Senator Tina Smith wrote on X that “ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz stated that his state "doesn't need any further help from the federal government". In response, Republican Congressman Tim Emmer slammed Walz and Frey on social media, stating that “Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are cowards who are inciting violence to distract from their own failures." The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association released a statement: “Irresponsible, reckless rhetoric from political leaders attacking law enforcement has real & dangerous consequences for officers on the street.”

These Democrats need ICE out of their city because ICE has been arresting and deporting many of the illegal immigrants who Democrat politicians need in order to entrench their political power. Democrats could not get elected without a major influx of illegals into their states and cities, but with it, they would never lose another election. That’s why Biden opened the border. In 2023, Governor Walz signed a bill into law that allowed residents to get a driver's license no matter their immigration status. So, illegal immigrants can get driver’s license in Minnesota. But that bill was not passed simply to allow illegals to drive automobiles; it was more than that. In the great state of Minnesota, people are allowed to register to vote on election day – all they need is a valid driver’s license. They do not need to prove that they are citizens of the United States to vote in state or federal elections in Minnesota. It is estimated that there are at least 130,000 illegal immigrants in the state of Minnesota who are all potentially eligible to vote, and Kamala Harris won the state by 137,000 votes. Removing the illegals, reduces her margin of victory to less than one percent.

Illegals voting in Minnesota is the reason why Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed this past June. 48 hours prior to her murder, she cast the deciding vote outlawing state funded healthcare for illegal immigrants. And that vote cost her, her life because that vote could potentially cost people like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey their next elections if many of the illegal immigrants who came to Minnesota for the free government handouts decided to self-deport because those handouts were taken away from them. Wasn’t it strange that the political assassination of a Democrat politician was barely a blip on the media screen? It was talked about for roughly forty-eight hours and forgotten. Maybe because the assassin, Vince Boelter, was appointed by Walz's in 2019 to serve on Governor’s Workforce Development Board, and the motivation for the killing was to make a clear statement to other politicians that voting against illegal aliens receiving free government benefits has deadly consequences.

This is what corrupt Democrats do to hold onto power. They use taxpayer money to bribe people for votes. That is the heart of the $9 billion Somali daycare, healthcare, and welfare fraud scheme that was recently exposed in Minnesota. 81% of the Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare, and many of them benefitted from the widespread fraud in that state. The Democrats need to pay these people to stay in their state and vote for them. If first generation immigrants were not allowed to receive welfare benefits, the Democrats would lose a major voting bloc because the majority of the Somali population in America would go back to Somalia. They would not be able to survive here. They are not smart enough or skilled enough or hard-working enough to survive in America without government handouts. If they were, they would have stayed in Somalia and made it a functioning and prosperous country. In contrast, only 10-15 percent of first-generation Asian immigrants into the United States are on welfare benefits. They are smart enough to thrive and succeed in a first world economy.

This woman’s death will be exploited by the Democrats and the left for as long as it is useful, but there will not be a moment when any of these people who are exploiting her death, have an ounce of compassion or concern for her or her family. They are happy that she died. Her death is useful to them. They have their martyr. This is no different than the tactics that Hamas uses in Gaza. Hamas wants as many Palestinian civilians killed as possible, so they can paint the Jewish people as being evil and win the media narrative because they know that there are millions of braindead leftists who will fall in line and support them, as we saw with the mass pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas protests that cropped up all over our country since October 6. That is why they use civilians as human shields and set up their military operations underneath hospitals and schools. They want as many civilian deaths as possible. Democrats use extreme language to radicalize their followers to protest and riot in the hopes that one of them attacks a police officer or ICE agent and gets shot and killed, so they can use their deaths as a human shield against investigations into their vast fraud schemes. And sadly, there are too many people on the left who fall for this gambit every time.

Every single person who has been killed, whether it is Renee Nicole Goode, or the many victims of violent illegal aliens, or even some of the illegal aliens themselves, are the sacrificial lambs of Democrat corruption. Their corrupt policies that fraudulently seize and hold onto power through mass illegal immigration and widespread government fraud has deadly consequences for anyone who intentionally or unintentionally crosses paths with them. And they will continue to offer people like this up as long as the complicit media continues to run cover for them.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.