oh the ironies

While “Border Czar” Tom Homan’s latest warning to Democrats who criticize ICE that “there’s still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted” is nonsensical, it does highlight many of the ironies of the debate around ICE. First is the total contradiction between Dem words and Dem actions. What these cynical politicians say in public to score political points is the opposite of how they vote. Consistently and hypocritically they fund, expand, militarize, normalize, and leave unaccountable this rightfully hated agency. Remember that only the reason this guy exists to torment us in the first place is that Barack Obama appointed him as head of ICE, and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his massive increase in deportations, and his brainstorm that the U.S. government should start separating immigrant families as a deliberate form of deterrent cruelty. The difference between the Dems and GOP on this issue is much…