Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed that Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts by federal officials are as if the United States were a Confederacy.
"There should be no question to what our country would look like had the Confederacy won," said Johnson. "We're seeing it on full display."
The mayor continued that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is performing acts of terrorism by arresting illegal immigrants, including many with extensive criminal records.
But terrorism, according to Merriam-Webster, is the “unlawful use or threat of violence especially against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion.”
President Trump and his federal officials have one goal: to remove illegal immigrants from the country to protect American citizens, not to create violence or terror. American citizens are the priority, and the government must uphold its citizens’ rights by protecting them from illegal aliens and criminals. It’s misleading for Mayor Brandon to accuse the feds of “assault[ing] elected officials or any Chicagoan” when ICE is keeping U.S. citizens safe from illegal immigrants.
Finally, Johnson's claim that ICE raids are like the Confederacy is extremely vague. What precisely about the Confederacy is he even referring to?
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Is he referring to the Fugitive Slave Act? That was about identifying escaped black slaves and returning them to their owners.
Is he referring to some tyrannical, centrist government where federal officials controlled the masses in fear? He would be wrong. One of the big things the Confederacy fought for was the preservation of state sovereignty. In other words, the central government’s powers were minimal. If we were in a Confederacy, the states wouldn’t allow federal officials to arrest illegal immigrants without their express permission.
Is Mayor Brandon referring to a racist Confederacy where federal officials target people of color, like blacks or browns? That would be wrong. According to Statista, the highest number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. who returned to their country of origin are from the Philippines, then India, Canada, China, and Russia. Many of the illegal immigrants are asian or just plain white, not Latino, or “brown.” The U.S. isn’t systemically targeting a specific race of people for deportation.
This is not at all how the Confederacy would have looked in Mayor Brandon’s eyes. One, he wouldn’t even be mayor because of the Confederacy’s blatant racism against blacks. Two, the Confederacy’s sovereign states wouldn’t allow the feds to enter their territory without explicit permission to round up illegals. Three, the fugitive slave act specifically discriminated against and hunted blacks, while ICE is removing illegal aliens, regardless of skin color.
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