The Government Dropped the Ball

Let me start here, because this keeps getting lost.

What happened to those young people is a tragedy. Any loss of life is. Period. And before anything else, investigations should be allowed to play out without instant conclusions, political framing, or media narratives racing ahead of facts. We also need to cool the rhetoric in this country—on all sides—because if we don’t, we’re heading toward something far worse than disagreement. We’re heading toward two countries living inside one.

And here’s the part people don’t want to hear: our adversaries are watching this chaos and exploiting every inch of it. They don’t need to divide us—we’re doing it ourselves.

Politics is not the problem. Avoiding the truth is.

What the public keeps getting dragged into is the politics of immigration. That’s all the news reports—the empathetic angle, the outrage angle, the culture-war angle. What’s missing is the structural truth. You can argue about tone forever and get nowhere, because the real issue isn’t ICE, or protests, or who said what on cable news. The real issue is this: our government created this situation deliberately, and then walked away from responsibility.

Both parties.

You don’t get to say “Biden let in X million people” and stop there. That’s convenient, but it’s dishonest. You can go back decades. No administration ever fully dealt with this—Republican or Democrat. They all kicked the can.

ICE is now trying to clean up a mess it didn’t make. The agency is doing what it was created to do: remove criminal elements from society—people with records, repeat offenders, and in some cases individuals responsible for horrific crimes. Could the rollout have been handled better? Maybe. That’s a fair discussion. Optics matter. Process matters. No one likes seeing people pulled out of homes or cars, and yes, there have been mistakes, even citizens caught up at times. That requires oversight.

But here’s the line that should never have been crossed: disagreeing with how enforcement is carried out is one thing; actively sabotaging enforcement is another. We now have elected officials instructing local law enforcement not to cooperate with a federal agency operating legally within the same country they all live under. That’s not protest—it’s obstruction. It’s ethically wrong, morally wrong, and it makes society less safe. Law enforcement exists to protect the public, so explain how it makes sense to block cooperation when the priority is removing criminals from the streets. The media almost never addresses that part.

Sanctuary cities are where logic collapses entirely. I’m not in favor of them, and neither are most Americans. Why would we protect people who are here illegally? The word matters. We’re handing out driver’s licenses, housing, medical care, food assistance, and in some cases cash, all while veterans are neglected, citizens are homeless, working people can’t afford rent, and communities are stretched thin. That’s not compassion—it’s dysfunction. You cannot run a country where breaking the law is rewarded and following it gets you pushed aside.

Then there’s the truth no one wants to say out loud: cheap labor. This immigration crisis didn’t just “happen.” It was allowed because the economy depends on it. Construction, agriculture, hospitality, food service, landscaping, warehousing, meatpacking—entire industries rely on undocumented workers. Everybody knows it. Corporations want it because it keeps wages low and profits high. Politicians allow it because those corporations fund campaigns. The government looks the other way because it still collects payroll taxes. And the media barely touches it.

Undocumented workers pay billions into Social Security, Medicare, and income taxes—money they will almost never collect—while billions more are sent out of the country as remittances. The labor is produced here. The taxes are collected here. The money leaves. Corporations benefit. Government revenue benefits. Political donors benefit. American workers, legal immigrants, community stability, and public trust lose. This wasn’t accidental. It was profitable.

The negligence becomes even more obvious when you look at assimilation. We allow mass immigration—legal and illegal—from third-world countries, from radically different cultures, religions, and ideologies, and put nothing in place to help people assimilate. No serious national assimilation programs. No enforcement of cultural expectations. No requirements beyond “show up.” That’s not diversity; that’s neglect. Societies don’t survive on autopilot, and pretending all belief systems are compatible with a free, pluralistic society is naïve at best and reckless at worst. Meanwhile, foreign money flows into institutions and infrastructure, and politicians approve it without explaining how or why. That didn’t just happen either.

A Breakdown in Respect

There’s something else going on that nobody in the media wants to say out loud: basic respect for law enforcement has fallen off a cliff, especially over the last decade. Watch the videos. It’s right there. People screaming, cursing, getting in officers’ faces, refusing simple commands, daring things to escalate.

Somehow, we got to a place where authority deserves zero respect, compliance is seen as weakness, and pushing the line is treated like a right. That’s not courage — it’s reckless. And here’s the part people never seem to think through. Strip away the politics and the slogans—what happens if there’s no law and order? What replaces it? What’s left when rules don’t matter, commands don’t matter, and authority doesn’t matter? At some point, you break down any rational sense of morality or stability. And when something happens to someone they love—when things go bad fast—who do they call?

This isn’t about worshipping police or pretending mistakes don’t happen. It’s about reality. Law-enforcement encounters aren’t debates or social-media performances. They’re tense, fast, and dangerous. The way you act matters. Mouth off, refuse orders, insert yourself into a bad situation, and things go sideways fast.

Rights don’t cancel common sense. Tragedy doesn’t erase bad decisions. Ignoring lawful commands in a volatile situation isn’t protest — it’s rolling the dice with your life.

Here’s the bottom line: the public is being pitted against itself—left versus right, neighbor versus neighbor—while the people who caused this mess avoid accountability. The government allowed cheap labor without legal pathways, ignored assimilation entirely, protected corporate donors, avoided enforcement for decades, and then panicked when the consequences showed up. Instead of honesty, we got slogans. Instead of solutions, we got division. And now the media keeps people fighting emotionally while refusing to explain why this all happened in the first place.

That’s the same reason Donald Trump got elected. People were sick of a political system that refused to tell the truth.

Most Americans aren’t extremists. They want rule of law, order without cruelty, immigration done the right way, assimilation instead of fragmentation, and accountability at the top. They support legal immigration—people who work, assimilate, pay taxes, appreciate the country, and contribute to society. Everyone else is where law enforcement has to come in.

And the responsibility for fixing this doesn’t belong to the public yelling at each other. It belongs to the government that dropped the ball—again—and now wants the people to fight over the consequences instead of holding leadership accountable.

This crisis wasn’t created by protesters, police, or immigrants themselves. It was created by leadership that chose profit, politics, and avoidance over accountability. Until that changes, no amount of outrage on either side will fix what the government allowed to break.