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Meanwhile, In NYC and Virginia

By J Robert Smith

  • March 7, 2026
  • 3-min read

In New York City, Will Serious Crime Rise Soon?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a man of his word. Among other pledges, he’s going soft on crime in part by reducing personnel at the New York Police Department (NYPD).

In January and February, NYC saw a drop in serious crime, yet, crimes on the city’s subway system rose by 18.5%. According to Fox News, March 7: “[T]ransit crime jumped 18.5% in February, largely driven by felony assaults and grand larcenies.” Felony assault isn’t petty crime. Don’t attribute the city’s two-month crime drop to Mamdani. He only started his term on January 1.

A spike in subway crime may indicate bigger problems brewing. “Broken Windows” – policing stopping lesser crime has proven to deter criminals from committing bigger crimes. It worked for Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg for many years. Broken Windows policing isn’t Mamdani’s way.

More from the Fox News’ article:

[T]he preliminary FY 2027 budget notes the importance of “significantly reducing current vacancies,” which could include reductions in funding for the NYPD based on unfilled positions. Mamdani’s budget proposes a $22 million decrease in the NYPD’s $6.4 billion budget next year.

Mamdani’s predecessor, Eric Adams, proposed at the end of his term that the city hire 5,000 more police officers. However, upon entering office, Mamdani moved to cancel all orders signed by Adams following his Sept. 26, 2024, indictment on bribery and campaign finance offenses. This included the proposed NYPD personnel increase.

Police on the streets discourages crime. That’s a fact and common sense. New Yorkers should enjoy safer streets while they can.

Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats are Setting Up a Confrontation with Uncle Sam

Last year, Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger ran for Virginia governor as a moderate. She won – thanks mostly to votes out of DC’s northern Virginia suburbs. Right. She’s moderate – perhaps according to leftist standards. No sooner were she and legislative Democrats sworn in, legislation to raise multiple taxes and soft on crime measures popped up in the legislature. And Spanberger made sure that the commonwealth would be a sanctuary state, signing an executive order ending cooperation with ICE.

Now, Spanberger is refusing to turn over to ICE an illegal alien who not only committed murder but has a long rap sheet.

Oh, and did I mention that Old Dominion Democrats want to arrest ICE agents doing their jobs?

A set of legislative proposals has gotten Mike Davis’ attention. Davis is a Trump stalwart and runs the Article III Project.

Writes Davis for Fox News, March 7:

The latest example is Virginia, which is passing a series of unconstitutional laws that would dangerously and illegally obstruct ICE. These proposals include criminal penalties, meaning that state law enforcement would attempt to arrest and jail ICE agents for simply doing their jobs. This effort is seditious, insurrectionist, extremely dangerous and blatantly unconstitutional. For the sake of the Republic, the Justice Department must immediately and aggressively quell this Virginia seditious conspiracy.

If these proposals pass, it’ll take the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in again.

Warns Davis:

But civil enforcement is not enough. Virginia Democrat officials plotting to arrest ICE agents for doing their jobs (seditious conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 2384) — and especially those who cause the arrests (insurrection under 18 U.S.C. § 2383, assault, kidnapping, harboring, conspiracy, and more) — must go to federal prison for their serious federal felonies. If anyone gets killed in a deadly standoff between these new Virginia confederates and ICE, these Virginia Democrat officials must face felony-murder charges.

Setting state law enforcement against federal law enforcement amounts to an act of sedition. State authority doesn’t exceed federal authority in matters of immigration enforcement. A serious effort by Virginia Democrats to do so resulting in injury or death to federal and/or state law enforcement officers should be regarded as felonies. It should be regarded as steps toward rebellion. Isn’t that where these Democrats are heading?

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We Do Not Get to Choose
What Laws We Obey

By Rob Meyne

  • February 4, 2026
  • 3-min read

All of 49 states and their big city mayors are currently not encouraging demonstrators to interfere with police officers. They are the same states without deaths attributable to ICE encounters with protestors.

Texas and Florida, to name two, have had many more arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records than Minnesota. In those states, there have been zero related violent encounters.

How can this be so? Simple: Texas and Florida are enforcing the law, working hand in hand with federal authorities, while Minnesota is not. Minnesota has anointed itself as a sanctuary state, and Minneapolis a sanctuary city. They have unilaterally decided they, and their citizens, don’t have to follow the law. Being a “sanctuary” from federal law is most notable because it is a thing that does not exist.

States and cities do not have the Constitutional authority to determine which laws they will follow. They might as well announce they are two-headed manatees as sanctuaries. It is just as true and just as legally binding.

“Sanctuary” is a made-up term, in the legal sense, and doesn’t exist in the U. S. You do not get to decide which laws you will obey. It doesn’t work that way.

Our federal laws are not the Golden Corral of politics; you don’t get to pick and choose. Calling a city a “sanctuary” tells us a lot about their priorities, but it doesn’t mean a thing in regard to the law.

Any time a person seeks out confrontation with law enforcement, harasses them, spits on them, damages their vehicles, swears at them, or otherwise interferes, bad things can happen. It is not a smart or legal thing to do.

There is no reasonable person, adult, parent, etc., who would advise a child in their care to interfere with police. Ever. Why is it reasonable for a governor or mayor to do?

Walz and Frey have openly encouraged people to interfere with law enforcement. And hundreds of thousands of dollars from far-left groups has been spent to equip and encourage the protestors. The resultant blood is on their hands. Not exclusively, but inarguably.

No reasonable person defends the killing of Pretti and Good. Their deaths were tragic and avoidable. That doesn’t make ICE agents hateful or the victims blameless.

None of us can put ourselves in the position of the officers on the front line. They take daily, consistent abuse and threats from citizens and politicians who call them the Gestapo and Nazis.

The issue in Minnesota is not free speech. No one is challenging the free speech rights of Minnesotans. They have a right to appear, to march, to chant, carry signs, and protest. I actually kind of like it when people protest. That is what freedom looks like. However, they do not have the right to physically confront police. Any rational person understands that.

People have said Pretti died because he was exercising his free speech. That is a lie, and the people who say that know they are lying.

This much is reasonable and ought to be ground on which we can unite:

  • The deaths in Minnesota are tragedies. We should all tone down our rhetoric, and all sides should work to prevent more deaths.

Free speech is our most important right and we must protect it.

No one has the right to interfere with law enforcement.

Citizens and public officials all have a duty to obey, respect, and support the law.

Anyone who can’t agree with those sensible principles has lost their right to a place at the table of rational debate.

The shootings in Minnesota are being investigated, as they should be. Looking ahead, we need reason and accountability from the protestors, the police, public officials, and everyone else. As long as Minnesota’s leaders continue to pretend they are above the law this situation will remain dangerous.

It is notable that the Trump Administration, and federal law enforcement, support all the above positions. The state of Minnesota, city of Minneapolis, anti-ICE protestors and their wealthy enablers do not. Who is being more reasonable?

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In Minnesota, Are Democrats Flirting with Insurrection?

By J Robert Smith

  • Jan. 16, 2026
  • 3-min read

Minnesota governor Tim Walz made a speech the other night claiming that ICE was brutalizing Minnesotans and occupying Minneapolis. He said he wants both to end. Democrats are all about narratives. In other words, concocting self-serving versions of events for highly personal or partisan reasons.

Walz has plenty to worry about. Not only is the massive Somali fraud that’s resulted in billions of federal taxpayer money stolen costing him his reelection bid, but the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Walz and other Minnesota Democrat officials to determine if they’re culpable in any way.

Walz is trying to distract from his troubles. Moreover, immigrant populations – illegal or legal – have become the lifeblood of the Democrat Party. Though Minnesota is a Democrat state, it’s lighter blue. Republicans control the state house. A capable GOP candidate for statewide office can usually count on a vote tally in the high 40-percent range. That makes Republicans competitive. Democrats need the Somali voting bloc to help keep their grip on statewide offices. Walz is protecting an important bloc in his party’s voting base. He’s happy to overlook crime among Somalis.

Then there’s Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, who famously told ICE to get the f**k out of Minneapolis. Understand that ICE isn’t causing any problems in Frey’s city. They’re rooting out and arresting Somali criminals, among others.

In Florida, for example, ICE is working closely with state and local law enforcement to quietly and successfully roundup hardcore criminals among illegals – and, yes, arrest and deport those who are in the U.S. illegally. Florida governor Ron DeSantis is seeing to it.

Per a Grok (X platform) search and analysis:

ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, launched in late 2025 in Minneapolis, has resulted in over 2,000 arrests nationwide, with a focus on the Twin Cities area due to its sanctuary policies. Among those arrested are individuals from various countries, including Somalia, prioritized for criminal convictions or outstanding deportation orders. DHS and ICE have publicly highlighted the “worst of the worst” cases, emphasizing arrests of those convicted of serious crimes like homicide, sexual assault, child abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud. Of the 212 individuals classified as the most dangerous in Minnesota operations, 20 are from Somalia (about 10%), behind Mexico (91) and Honduras (22). Nationwide, 117 people with Somali citizenship were arrested in the initial phase, with 28 in Minnesota.

Walz, Frey, and Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison have been careful about not calling for outright resistance to federal law enforcement. That would be insurrection. Though they couch their words, their actions indicate attempts at public incitement. They’ve withheld not only state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, but have allowed rabble to run Minneapolis’ streets – as in individuals who are committing acts of violence toward federal law enforcement and property destruction. We’re not talking about peaceful, lawful protests, which are a 1st Amendment right.

President Trump is walking a tightrope. Lately, polling suggests that independent voters and moderates are backing off supporting his immigration enforcement efforts. Republicans aren’t, however. The midterm elections are critically important. Republicans holding Congress matters to the final two years of Trump’s term. If enough independents are motivated to vote against Republican House and Senate candidates this autumn, that makes Trump a 24-month lame duck.

Yet, upholding the law matters greatly. Somalis shouldn’t be given passes, having committed fraud on an historic scale. Drug dealers, gangbangers, rapists, child sex traffickers, fraudsters, and thieves, among others, need to be brought to justice. Those here illegally need to be deported.

Perhaps Trump’s solution is to pursue justice and work like hell to get Republicans to the polls this autumn? Perhaps, leadership, resolve, and fighting for a safer America and justice wins votes?

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Philly, ICE, and Out of Control Cop Hate

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 15, 2019
  • 2 min read

You can’t make this up. Six cops were wounded in a shootout with a bad dude in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood in Philly. Looks like Nicetown has some really mean streets. Locals turned against cops there, too. Cop hate is growing worse by the day. Beat cops in America’s gritty cities aren’t the only ones at risk, though.
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