Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, warned that sanctuary cities are no longer engaging in passive resistance to federal immigration policy but have crossed into what he described as an “unprecedented defiant rebellion” against the rule of law.
On Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pulliam argued that Democratic governors, mayors, judges, and law enforcement leaders in major blue cities are actively obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration statutes passed by Congress and upheld under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
Pulliam specifically pointed to the confrontation in Minneapolis, explaining how it represents the culmination of a pattern he has tracked throughout the last year, in which local officials increasingly escalated opposition to ICE through sanctuary policies, hostile rhetoric, judicial intervention, and reduced police cooperation.
“What we’ve seen is these groups – NGOs, dark money-funded groups – recruiting, training and equipping these crazed anti-ICE agitators to try to obstruct and interfere with ICE’s operations in Minneapolis, which they’re simply enforcing federal law. These are federal statutes passed by Congress,” Pulliam explained.
“They act like President Trump invented this and is sending his shock troops in Minneapolis. They’re calling it an invasion. All he is doing is enforcing federal law. That’s what the rule of law calls for. If Congress passes laws, they get enforced,” he added.
Pointing to last week’s fatal shooting involving an ICE officer and a 37-year old activist interfering with immigration enforcement operations with her vehicle, Pulliam criticized Democratic officials and media outlets for condemning the officer while portraying the activist as a martyr, calling this a familiar pattern in high-profile self-defense cases involving law enforcement.
“As a result of this amazing amount of disruption, an ICE officer…shot and killed a deranged 37-year-old anti-ICE activist,” he said. “They’re making [the ICE agent] out as a murderer and that [the activist] was an innocent victim. They’re trying to canonize her.”
Pulliam argued that this aggressive resistance to immigration enforcement is driven by political self-preservation, explaining how mass deportations threaten entrenched political machines in blue states by exposing widespread welfare fraud and related abuses.
According to Pulliam, revelations about alleged large-scale fraud in Minnesota’s child nutrition programs heightened political pressure and helped trigger intensified anti-ICE activity.
“This is an attempt to derail President Trump’s election last year. The number one reason why American voters reelected him…was because the border was out of control under Joe Biden and President Trump said, if you elect me, I will fix this. So, they elected him and he fixed it, and [Democrats] can’t stand it because this is the center of their welfare fraud scheme,” he said.
Pulliam further claimed that welfare fraud and election fraud operate in tandem, claiming that tolerance of the former enables the latter and helps sustain Democratic dominance in urban areas.
“This is the new patronage that fuels their political machine, and if we expose the welfare fraud, we will expose the voter fraud that’s right behind it. And the political machine that many of these Democrats depend upon in blue cities and blue states would begin to unravel. This is a struggle for control. The Democrats will do anything to preserve their control,” Pulliam said.
He concluded by urging Americans to support the enforcement of immigration laws, saying the conflict represents the most serious threat to the rule of law he has witnessed in his lifetime.
“This is an insurrection…Americans have to unite behind the rule of law, behind President Trump, and not flinch in the face of this, because this is an unprecedented defiant rebellion…It’s the greatest threat to the rule of law in my adult lifetime,” Pulliam stressed.
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The democrats and their useful idiots are like a cornered rabid skunk. The current administration is stripping them of all their tools to disrupt America and line their pockets. NGOs, bye bye, voter fraud in it’s many forms; out the door. Flooding America with third worlders was a major part of their scheme. Most of the street people causing unrest are either being paid to protest or they are just clueless foot solders for the democrats. And don’t forget all the washed up old grey hairs. They are afflicted with SITS; Stuck in the Sixties.