Justice never sleeps, and apparently neither does the federal government agency everyone loves to hate until they actually do their job. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was out working on Christmas Day, while most of the loudest critics were busy posting hot takes from the couch. That alone tells you something about priorities.
The men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are doing a job that is unpopular in polite circles and downright dangerous in real life. They walk into situations most politicians would not touch with a ten foot pole, and they do it knowing the media is itching to paint them as villains no matter what happens. That is not hero worship, that is basic reality.
This week, ICE conducted an enforcement operation in what locals often call “Little Somalia” in St. Paul, and suddenly the usual suspects started panicking. Funny how that works. When everything is on the up and up, nobody worries about audits, subpoenas, or agents knocking on doors. When bank accounts and paper trails start getting attention, the outrage machine fires up immediately.
According to reports circulating online, this operation focused on fraud networks and financial scams that have been operating in plain sight for years. These are not traffic tickets or paperwork errors. These are organized schemes that drain public resources, abuse the system, and make legal immigrants look bad by association. That last part rarely gets mentioned by activists who pretend borders and laws are optional.
One of the more interesting details is how these scams actually function. They rely on layers of shell accounts, fake identities, and the assumption that nobody will ever bother to follow the money. That assumption collapses quickly when federal investigators get involved. Bank records do not have feelings, and spreadsheets do not care about protest signs. Numbers either add up or they do not.
This is why the reaction has been so frantic. There is a reason people are “panicking,” to borrow the exact word being used. Paper trails do not magically disappear, and digital footprints are stubborn things. Once investigators start pulling threads, entire networks can unravel fast.
Say what you want about enforcement, but a country that refuses to enforce its own laws is not compassionate, it is negligent. President Trump understood that borders matter, laws matter, and sovereignty is not optional. ICE is simply executing the mandate given by elected officials, even when it is uncomfortable.
“GREAT WORK!” and “KEEP IT UP!” are not radical statements. They are basic expressions of support for people doing a necessary, thankless job. As for the closing line making the rounds, “Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming!”, that sounds dramatic, but accountability always feels dramatic to people who thought it would never arrive.
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