Efforts by the radical left to render law enforcement\nincapable of doing its job always seem to begin with nullifying immigration\nlaws. But, as we have seen in recent months, they don\u2019t end there. Attacks on\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are usually a precursor to wider\ncampaigns to emasculate law enforcement in general, under the guise of\npromoting \u201csocial justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest offensive against ICE entails pressuring U.S. tech companies to stop selling their products to agencies that enforce immigration laws. This week, the #NoTechForICE campaign<\/a>, led by a group known as Mijente, enlisted a powerful ally: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). High on Mijente\u2019s and ACLU\u2019s target list are Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier which produce the legal research tools Westlaw<\/a> and LexisNexis<\/a>. Others are sure to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In announcing the ACLU\u2019s decision to join the #NoTechForICE campaign, the group\u2019s Northern California director Vasudha Talla explained<\/a>, \u201cThomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier embody the burgeoning contradictions of technology companies that, in the same breath, claim to be in the business of public service, while they are enabling government agencies to engage in wildly unconstitutional tactics to arrest and incarcerate people in deadly conditions.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Never mind that neither of these companies are \u201cin the business of public service\u201d \u2013 like all other companies, they\u2019re in business to make profits for themselves and their shareholders \u2013 or that ICE\u2019s mission is not only constitutional, but protects public safety and saves lives. The effort is built on a successful model that the author Douglas Murray astutely describes in a podcast<\/a> as an effort to intimidate cowardly corporate executive into appeasing loud mobs by capitulating to their demands in the hopes that doing so will convince the mob to go harass someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mijente neatly fits the description of a boisterous mob bent on intimidation. The group would have the rest of us believe that it speaks for what they claim are 60 million \u201cLatinx\u201d residents of the United States. While most Hispanic-Americans, including those who are immigrants, see themselves as Americans who share the interests and values of most other Americans, Mijente sees immigration as a tool to gain power. \u201cWe\u2019re power. We\u2019re the future. And we\u2019re here,\u201d the group warns on its website<\/a>, while claiming that they are the ones \u201cunder attack\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rest of us, it seems, are the past and we\u2019d better move\naside. If very recent history is any guide, and the howling mob and its fellow\ntravelers like the ACLU succeed in browbeating tech companies into halting\nsales to ICE, it will not be long before that campaign is expanded to include\npolice departments and district attorneys\u2019 offices. Their goal is not just eradicating\nimmigration enforcement, or even hamstringing police in general. Rather, their\nobjective is imposing a radical ideology through intimidation. And, as usual,\nit begins with attacking immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Efforts by the radical left to render law enforcement incapable of doing its job always seem to begin with nullifying immigration laws. But, as we have seen in recent months, they don\u2019t end there. Attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are usually a precursor to wider campaigns to emasculate law enforcement in general, under<\/p>\n