Our immigration quagmire

"In closing, here are the ingredients to this quagmire. Congress wrote our immigration laws. Homan and crew, as good LEOs, are following the law. Many of the latter-day hippies hate this law and want it ignored. Big blue city mayors and big blue state governors also want this law ignored."

What a mess. I will admit that as a citizen, I am not happy with our illegal immigration problem. And to be truthful, we have put our ICE LEOs in a real predicament. First and foremost, is ICE doing the right thing? Yes, they are following the law. But to find the illegals, with zero help from the local LEOs, blue mayors and blue governors - sometimes is a bridge too far. Right now, it is a quagmire, and every day it seems to get worse.

Some think the worst thing that Biden did to us was spending money like a drunken sailor, which led to our inflation and interest rate problems. I respectfully disagree. I think the worst thing he did was to open our borders for four long years. This allowed the cartels to stash people, drugs, gangs, trafficked youth and so forth, all over our country. And now to ask ICE, with zero help from the lefties to find, detain and deport - is hard beyond hard.

This, more than any other issue, is a problem in search of a solution. Why? It is ripping some neighborhoods apart. It is making our brave men and women of ICE and Border Patrol look like thugs instead of the honest LEOs they are. In a perfect world, we would get everybody together to agree this is a problem which needs fixing. However, when a large percentage of those on the other side of the aisle think that what Biden did was cool and just, then we are back to this standoff we find ourselves in. 

To top everything off, there are rumors flying around that Trump is not happy with the speed of the deportations. So much so, the rumors are that he might replace Noem with somebody closer in style to Tom Homan. Why? Homan is a cut and dry type of guy. If you came here legally - you stay. If you came here illegally - you go. Even if you are an Eagle Scout, if you came here the wrong way - you go.

Why is Homan so literal? He is a lifelong cop, and he follows the law. Kristi Noem also follows the law, but she does not have jet packs on her shoes like Homan does. In closing, here are the ingredients to this quagmire. Congress wrote our immigration laws. Homan and crew, as good LEOs, are following the law. Many of the latter-day hippies hate this law and want it ignored. Big blue city mayors and big blue state governors also want this law ignored. Oil and water. Night and day. This mess will be with us for years to come.