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Dems’ migrant stunts prove AGAIN they think they’re above the law

By
Post Editorial Board
Published May 12, 2025, 2:49 p.m. ET

Democrats across the country have major trouble following that “no one is above the law” precept they keep invoking — as witness multiple recent scuffles as the left goes to bat🧸 for illegal immi𝔉grants. 

First up, at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall Detention Center — which houses border-jumpers accused of crimes ranging from rape to murder —  Reps. Robert Menendez Jr. and LaMonica McIver got into an altercation with ICE agents as McIver tried to force her way int🍸o the facility.

Also protest♓ing was Newark Mayor꧋ Ras Baraka, who ended up in cuffs and custody for his part in the fracas. 

Mayor Ras Baraka confronting ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey on May 7, 2025.
Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark confronts ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention centre in Elizabeth, New Jersey May 7, 2025. AFP via Getty Images

Menendez went on TV this weekend, insanely, to blame the immigration enforcement officers he and his colleagues went after.

Because, you see, every criminal and thug who crossed our border i🅺llegally deserves to stay here f꧃orever and hoover up infinite tax dollars. 

And Democrats get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, with zero conse൩quences ever or else it’s fascism. 🔜;

That philosophy — i.e. laws only apply to my political enemies — was on full display when lefty Massachusetts state Rep. Etel Haxhiaj allegedly assaulted ICE officers and i🌼ncited a violent scene as she and other migrant-mongers tried to disrupt an operation to round up a violent illegal. 

Crowd of approximately 25 people in Massachusetts protesting an ICE arrest, with some individuals placing hands on an SUV with a detained woman inside, amidst a tense confrontation with uniformed ICE agents.
A tense video emerged of a Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by a crowd of about 25 people in what police are calling a “chaotic incident.” @iwontstealthemooniswear_ via Storyful

Local school board candid🅷ate Ashley Spring was there too and now faces several charges. 🌜;

Hmmm, after Jan. 6, we thought doing anything bad to cops was insurrection; guess that’s another “principle” that doesn’t apply to the left.

Then again, it seems like Democrats are embracing a role as the lawless party when it comes to immigration and the border — both in these small-scale acts of polit♎ical thuggery and in their backing for the wave-them-all-in, open-border Biden policies.

The great mystery is why they think Americans as a whole won’t notice.