Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, February 22, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, went ballistic in a temper tantrum triggered by President Donald Trump sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out on raids around the nation, declaring that those are “unconstitutional missions.”
As background, the president has been focusing on using DHS generally, and ICE and Border Patrol in particular, to crack down in a huge way on different sorts of areas all over America. In friendly jurisdictions, such as Texas and Florida, the agents are sweeping up huge numbers of illegal aliens while working with state authorities. In blue zones like Minneapolis, they have cracked down in major blitzes that have put the leftist authorities on their heels. Shapiro freaked out about all of it, particularly the Minneapolis crack down.
That began with host Martha Raddatz asking him, “Tom Homan — he took over in Minnesota, as you know, and he’s now saying it will be different than it was with Greg Bovino. They will do these targeted raids against people they know that are there, that they think are there illegally or have committed a crime.”
Responding, Shapiro went ballistic over the crackdown in Minneapolis, saying, “To me, it’s less important who’s in charge. What’s more important is that these individuals are being sent out on what I think are compromised and unconstitutional missions, as we saw in Minneapolis. The direction’s coming from the President of the United States.
Raddatz then asked him, “If there’s a surge of ICE agents into Pennsylvania, what do you do?” Responding, the woke governor vowed to resist ICE like a weather emergency, saying, “We are prepared. I will tell you, governors prepare for all kinds of emergencies — for a weather emergency or, God forbid, a terrorist incident or a shooting, awful things like that. We are now preparing, should the federal government, against our will, deploy federal officials into our communities.”
Not done, the far-left governor added, “It was interesting in the governor’s meeting, one of the governors asked the president, what did you learn from Minnesota and what happened there? And the president said, in the way he says things, I learned we’re only going to go to places where we’re wanted, where people say please and thank you. We do not want that kind of chaos in our communities in Pennsylvania, so don’t come. But if you come, we are prepared to address it.”
Raddatz then got to a critical question that many Democrats have shied away from answering, given their former “Defund the Police” disaster in messaging. In any case, she asked, “Our latest ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 70 percent of Democrats support abolishing ICE. Do you support abolishing ICE?”
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Shapiro then did the usual thing and refused to give a straight answer, saying, “I think what’s clear is that ICE is not working. What’s clear is that they’ve been engaged in unconstitutional practices, and that needs to be fixed. I think the first step is what the Congress of the United States is doing right now to try and put some controls on that, and I want to see those controls be put into effect. Again, I’m not —”
They then went back and forth as she seemingly tried to get him to commit to defunding ICE, which he refused to do, saying, “I think what is clear is that the manner in which they are being directed is a manner that directs them to go violate people’s constitutional rights, and that is not something I support.”
Watch him here:
Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro dodges when asked if he supports “abolishing ICE.” pic.twitter.com/Mx6ZdP8RV0
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