Are They Illegal? Because If Theyre Illegal, Thats Why Theyre Getting Arrested

Are They Illegal? Because If Theyre Illegal, Thats Why Theyre Getting Arrested

As many of our readers know, the month of December has brought on Operation Swamp Sweep, which is a joint effort by several federal agencies to clear as many illegal aliens, and in particular criminal illegal aliens (before you offer up all your semantic objections, we’re using “criminal illegal aliens” to refer to people who not only broke the law to get here but also committed crimes while here or had criminal records back home), out of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

It might not have been a bad idea, given the reaction of the professional Left and the local media, to call it Operation Clown Sweep. (RELATED: Meet the Criminals Anti-ICE Protesters Are Fighting to Shield)

And the specific operation in New Orleans is being called Operation Catahoula Crunch, which is pretty snappy in and of itself.

What’s happening in New Orleans is about as perfect an illustration of the activist-media complex that has destroyed local politics in every blue city in America as you’ll ever see. Here’s an example…

This made the rounds for several days as an example of the abusive practices that the Border Patrol and ICE are unleashing on the citizenry. (RELATED: Abusing Border Patrol Agents: Echoes of Vietnam)

Except as it always happens, there’s a bit more to the story.

It turns out that the screaming escapee is, in fact, an American citizen who happens to look a lot like a criminal alien that the officers were looking for. She was walking on the sidewalk, and the officers rolled up on her and asked to speak to her. Rather than show ID and sort the situation out, she ran.

When you run from the feds, it’s exceedingly common that they will chase you.

But you’ll notice in the video that they stopped at the sidewalk when she ran into the front yard of the house. And when her stepfather came out and engaged them, and they were satisfied she wasn’t who they were looking for, they left.

What he was angry about, and summoned the local media to turn this bad example of how to engage with law enforcement into a national story every leftist in America can be performatively outraged over, was that the officers didn’t apologize.

Which the TV stations and New Orleans’ pathetic excuse for a newspaper decided was significant enough to merit a full-on media blitz over.

And ever since, we’ve had a chance to witness the performative stupidity of the activist-media complex…

Imagine a couple of dozen people blowing whistles on a street corner being elevated to national news.

But the Associated Press wasn’t done there. They reviewed 38 case files of arrestees ICE brought in during the first few days of the operation and found that most of them didn’t have criminal records…

Interesting. So these guys didn’t carry their arrest records with them on the way from Venezuela and Nicaragua?

You’re supposed to take the AP at their word that they didn’t cherry-pick the case files and that those are a representative sample of what ICE has reeled in.

The media coverage of the operation makes it seem like a catastrophe for New Orleans. For example, here’s WDSU, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans, claiming an economic apocalypse for local businesses…

Seems like there’s an easy answer to be had here, though, right? Hire Americans! That way, the ice can come from the machine of your restaurant rather than through the front door.

There’s another aspect of this which somehow got lost. But a local building contractor provides that (if you’ll forgive a little not-safe-for-work language as he gets a bit torqued up during the presentation)…

But the professional protesters are everywhere attempting to gin up the perception that the whole New Orleans area is outraged over what ICE is doing, and there are scenes like this…

Which is even getting disseminated by social media influencers who generally lean right…

Greg Bovino, who’s in charge of the ICE operation, is at least fighting back against the complex. ICE is aggressively defending itself on social media with posts like this…

Perhaps the best reporting of what’s actually happening comes from Julio Rosas of TPUSA…

The most interesting part of this is that the local law enforcement agencies in the New Orleans area, not counting the New Orleans Police Department, are eagerly cooperating with ICE and the Border Patrol. Kenner, which is a suburb of New Orleans west of the city with the highest concentration of Hispanic residents, is the focus of most of the Catahoula Crunch activity. Its police chief, Keith Conley, has called the crackdown a godsend — because ICE and the Border Patrol are scrubbing his city clean of a criminal element he doesn’t have the resources or justification for getting rid of on his own. (RELATED: When Sanctuary Policies Hit the Highway)

The Louisiana State Police has been deployed to escort ICE and the Border Patrol when they need it, thanks to the state’s governor, Jeff Landry, taking a diametrically opposed point of view to that of, say, Illinois’ governor J.B. Pritzker.

But New Orleans’ mayor-elect Helena Moreno, who was born into privilege in Mexico and at one point was a news presenter on a local TV station in the Big Easy before going into politics, has treated Catahoula Crunch as an opportunity to engage in performance art by making demands of the feds…

That gave Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill occasion to come down like a ton of bricks on NOPD for its position that it has nothing to do with immigration enforcement — a position Murrill isn’t particularly impressed with…

Make no mistake about it, the vast majority of the people in the affected area — and I would go so far as to say even the vast majority of the Hispanic population of the New Orleans area — are fully in support of Swamp Sweep and Catahoula Crunch. They’re a very significant net benefit to public safety and quality of life in the area.

But you’d never know that based on the asinine coverage from local and national media and the funhouse-mirror presentation they’re offering.

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