The Enemy of my Enemy

Last Friday, MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee jail by Obama appointed Judge Barbara Holmes. On Monday, ICE announce that it had arrested Mr. Garcia and are processing him for deportation to Uganda. I cannot believe we are still talking about this guy. We have spent more time, more money, more resources, on a person who deserves none of it. He is an MS-13 gang member, a human trafficker, a domestic abuser, and an illegal alien who should have been deported 10 years ago. But we’ve been talking about him and fighting over him for the last six months. Make no mistake. This guy is not a good hard-working person from Central or South America, who loves the United States and wanted to come here to improve his life and improve our country in the process as the Democrats want you to believe. This guy has spent his life exploiting, abusing, and harming everyone and everything that he has come in contact with. And the Democrats and liberal judges cannot admit that this guy should be removed from our country immediately, forever. Instead, they are fighting to keep this violent criminal walking our streets.

If he were a good, hard-working man who wants to improve his lot in life, we wouldn’t be talking about him; he wouldn’t have been deported. How this guy became the poster child for the Democrats stance against Donald Trump’s border policy is mind-boggling. But it actually isn’t that out of the ordinary. If the Democrats actually had a case where the Trump administration was deporting good hard-working, Central or South American people who are merely in this country illegally, they wouldn’t be championing this gangbanger. Those other people would become their poster children. But they cannot find anyone like that because the good, hard-working, illegal immigrants who came here because they love America are not being deported.

So, when the Democrats cannot find someone who is a victim of Republican racism, they do what they always do – create one. This is what we learned from the Jussie Smollett race hoax from a few years ago. If America was truly as racist as the Democrats claimed it to be, they wouldn’t have to manufacture racist hoaxes to prove that point. There would be real racist crimes occurring on a regular basis that they could easily point to. But since there are so few, and since the United States of America is the least racist country on the planet, the Democrats have to make up racist hoaxes to convince their voters that America is racist. This is exactly what they did with George Floyd – a convicted felon who once pressed a loaded gun into the belly of a pregnant woman as he was robbing her, who died in police custody of a fentanyl overdose –became a hero and a martyr to the left in this country because they cannot find a true present-day racial hero and martyr.

The Democrats have to portray America as racist because they know that the best way for them to get elected is to continually play the race card. They need to win over 90% of the black vote and well over 60% of the Hispanic vote in order to have a chance of winning in elections because their message does not resonate with the rest of America. That is why the heart of every one of their positions is centered on race or promoting DEI or fighting white privilege. Most of the Democrat voters are not voting for them and their policies, they’re voting against the “racist” they are running against. And that is why they have labeled Donald Trump and his border policies as racist. Trump has taken the exact same stance on border security that Bill Clinton took in 1995, and Barack Obama took in 2008, and both of those presidents were considered champions of antiracism. So, the Democrats have to rally around a member of one of the most vicious gangs in the world to portray Donald Trump as racist, and that more than anything is the evidence that Donald Trump is not racist.

When your politics becomes solely about winning elections through division and blind opposition to your opponents, and you continually slander them as racists, sexists, homophobic, and fascists, you will eventually be forced to advocate for some very dangerous and destructive positions. The Democrat platform has become – anything that Donald Trump is for, they are against. So, Trump wants to deport an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, and domestic abuser, the Democrats are forced to take his side. They send congressmen down to an El Salvador prison to have a lunch date with this truly vile excuse for a human being. He, like George Floyd, becomes one of the faces of their party.

This is happening with every issue, even issues that both sides of the aisle should agree on. The Trump administration wants to make America healthy by banning toxins and cancer-causing agents in the food we eat and give to our children, but since the Democrats have to always oppose everything Trump, they have been attacking Trump’s HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr who’s leading this initiative. They cannot say that Donald Trump has gotten anything right, even when he is doing something that is objectively right like taking poison out of our food supply.

Trump wants to rid our major cities of violent crime, so the Democrats are forced to side with the criminals and murderers who are destroying our cities and vilify the police and federal law enforcement who are working to make our cities safe. Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, have all spoken out against Trump anti-crime policies in our cities. Far left activist, Insha Rahman – speaking about Trump’s tough on crime policies at the Democrat National Committee this week – told attendees, “don’t take the bait in talking about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don’t matter to that many Americans.” So, they have to turn a blind eye to the murders and rapes that are tearing our cities to shreds and falsely claim that Americans do not care that two dozen people are shot in Chicago every weekend. Their blind opposition to Trump makes them pro-crime and pro-violence, and anti-law-abiding citizen.

When your politics are shallow and empty, and solely about accumulating power without a thought of improving the country or the lives of American citizens like the Democrats have become, you end up exactly where they are. Their sole platform agenda is anti-Trump which makes them anti-America and anti-American citizen, which is where, deep down, they have been for the last 20 to 30 years.

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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.