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"Why would anyone who is a known rapist, murderer, drug dealer, or sex trafficker be given a pass solely because they are an illegal immigrant?" – Gloria Romero
During the reign of "Autopen Joe," I watched in disbelief as waves of military-aged men crossed our southern border. Even mainstream media couldn't ignore it. Where were the women and children? When the intention is peaceful, families come. But when it's something else—militaristic, predatory—you see only men of fighting age. By June 2025, we found out why: street-level chaos. Riots, provocations, and rebellion masked as a protest. Perhaps the start of a drive to get rid of the existing order, the beginnings of a color Revolution?
The real fight, however, isn't just in the streets; the real battlefield is the census. Political power in the United States is based on headcount, not citizenship. Each person in a state, citizen or not, contributes to congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes. That's the game. When over 11 million illegal immigrants or more (the actual number will never be known) flood blue states like New York and California, it's not about compassion. It's about control. More bodies mean more seats in Congress, more votes, more funding, more power.
But now, that blue wave is threatened by mathematics. As blue states lose residents and mass deportations approach, their census advantage is dwindling. For every 740,000 undocumented individuals removed, one congressional seat is lost. If this trend continues, the Democratic stronghold will weaken, perhaps permanently. That's why we're witnessing state-level obstruction, media hysteria, and riot-level resistance to deportation. It was never about human rights. It's about political survival.
If President Trump had the power of a king, none of this would be happening. But he doesn't. Instead, every executive order he issues must face hostile congressional obstructionists, RINOs, and Democrats eager for impeachment. Additionally, he must gain negative consent from 677 federal district judges, many of whom are openly partisan and appointed not for fairness but for loyalty. Under the current system, a single judge with a political agenda can stop an entire policy by issuing a nationwide injunction. This isn't democracy; it's judicial sabotage, where a single judge undermines the constitutional powers of a single, strong, centralized executive authority.
Appointees under Biden and Obama were chosen based on ideology instead of impartiality. The result? A de facto veto over presidential powers and a weaponized judiciary that undermines the executive branch. The rule of law has turned into an instrument of lawfare—a tool for blocking reforms, shielding criminals, and protecting an illegal voting bloc.
Trump has exhibited remarkable restraint despite the extraordinary powers of the presidency. However, how long can that restraint endure in a system where justice is optional and consequences are overlooked? We live in a country where the rules of civilization have been upended: where good deeds are punished and criminality is rewarded. Corrupt officials remain unprosecuted, and the system drags its feet on blatant fraud while fixating on the apprehension of minor offenders, thus creating an untouchable class of illegal immigrants at the bottom, while at the top, powerful elected officials flaunt their above-the-law status.
In Los Angeles, ICE raids are demonized not for what they are—targeted operations against violent criminals—but as assaults on the city's "values." Gangs like Tren de Agua and MS-13 operate with impunity, selling illegal street drugs, extorting immigrants, and committing armed robberies, while NGOs receive substantial funding for distributing crack pipes. The local government—City Council, Mayor, and Governor "Hair-Gel"—provides them sanctuary, not justice.
The real fear isn't that peaceful migrants will be deported. It's that the criminals hiding among them might be, because in the ideological minds of California's leadership, law and order are viewed as symbols of white privilege and racism. The application of the law must be resisted; therefore, they refuse to prosecute, arrest, or respond, hoping that the system will collapse under the weight of self-inflicted paralysis. However, what they seek to replace the old system of capitalism, law and order, and fossil fuels with is unclear, except for harm reduction, defunding the police, and free passes for violent criminals.
Immigration has become a significant business for the political class. Since undocumented immigrants are included in the census, they help increase congressional representation. Congress will subsequently fund the non-governmental organizations that, in turn, finance campaigns and ease the burden for the donor class, while average citizens struggle under an overbearing bureaucracy and overwhelmed social services. Democrats fear they could lose up to 20 House seats. The incentive is clear: safeguard the population count at all costs; protect this gravy train, even if it leads to violence.
If you're rioting, looting, and hurling explosives at police while waving a foreign flag, you're not a protester. You're an invader. Anyone who values another country's flag more than our own should be first in line for deportation. Why do illegal immigrants receive free healthcare, food benefits, housing, and legal protections, while citizens are left with broken roads, hollowed-out cities, unaffordable housing, crappy expensive food, and debt?
To the ruling class in California, public order isn't a goal; it's the enemy. However, the burden of this chaos doesn't fall on celebrities, influencers, or politicians like Governor Hair-Gel in his $9 million mansion with security guards. It falls on working people, the elderly, law-abiding immigrants, and families striving to raise children in dysfunctional cities. We can't keep pretending that this dismantling of order is accidental or compassionate. It's calculated, strategic, and dangerous.
(Eliot Cohen has been on the Neighborhood Council, serves on the Van Nuys Airport Citizens Advisory Council, and is on the Board of Homeowners of Encino, and was the president of HOME for over seven years. Eliot retired after a 35-year career on Wall Street. Eliot is a critic of the stinking thinking of the bureaucrats and politicians that run the County, the State, and the City. Eliot and his wife divide their time between L.A. and Baja Norte, Mexico.)
