DAVID MARCUS: How airport duty melted Democrats' absurd smearing of ICE agents

Sometimes successful life, the astir important happening is getting to cognize people. Over the past fewer weeks, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents started helping to shorten lines successful our nation’s airports, overmuch of the state has gotten to cognize them, overmuch to the lying Democrats’ chagrin.

Take podcaster Charlamagne tha God, who had been a blistering professional of ICE tactics nether the Trump administration. Here is what helium had to accidental of his encounters with the agents astatine a New York airport:

"They were great, to beryllium honorable with you. Like to beryllium honest, I'm conscionable like, they were, and for that peculiar terminal, I was flying retired of LaGuardia, I forgot what terminal it was, but yeah, they were being other bully similar Chick-fil-A workers."

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 26: Charlamagne tha God speaks during the "Adapting to Trends: The Future of Podcating" sheet during the 2025 Black Effect Podcast Festival astatine Pullman Yards connected April 26, 2025 successful Atlanta, Georgia.  (Derek White/Getty Images for iHeartMedia and The Black Effect Podcast Network)

This has wide been the acquisition of astir of the millions of aerial travelers of late, and it has begun to melt immoderate of the harsh rhetoric that saw ICE agents called fascists and adjacent Nazis.

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However, contempt the buffing up of ICE’s image, the Democrats are inactive holding the state hostage with their pointless shutdown of Department of Homeland Security funding, nether which thousands of behind-the-scenes ICE employees stay without pay.

The crushed Democrats are sticking with this fabulist communicative of out-of-control ICE agents stalking our federation is due to the fact that they deliberation they person yet recovered an effectual mode to smear instrumentality enforcement, aft a fewer botched tries.

We each retrieve the attempts to overgarment constabulary arsenic evil during the George Floyd riots. But the occupation determination for Democrats was that excessively galore radical cognize cops. They were excessively evident a portion of our lives to beryllium blatantly lied about.

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Then, during the Biden administration, it was borderline patrol agents who were painted arsenic evil, close down to borderline agents connected horseback being falsely accused of whipping migrants successful Texas, erstwhile adjacent the idiosyncratic who took the video instantly said determination was nary whipping, conscionable reins being handled.

It would person been comic if the administration, including past DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayaorkas, had not maintained the prevarication for astir a year, earlier sheepishly admitting its error.

An ICE cause patrols PHL successful Tinicum Township, Delaware County. (Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

ICE agents were a caller and juicy accidental for the near to onslaught instrumentality enforcement arsenic the 2nd Trump medication began, due to the fact that dissimilar cops, cipher truly knows ICE agents, and, dissimilar Border Patrol, they were operating not conscionable connected the border, but successful our communities.

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Democrats pounced connected the information that ICE agents deterioration masks to support themselves and their families against doxxing. They pretended that streamlined grooming programs meant racist yahoos were conscionable being handed guns and badges and told to circular up brownish people.

Then, finally, erstwhile a coordinated leftist run of harassment was launched against ICE successful Minneapolis, it predictably led to the tragic deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. With that, Democrats had each the excuse they needed to shutdown DHS and propulsion soil successful the gears of governance.

But today, aft the boy-scout regular to velocity up aerial travel, and aft Trump replaced the hyper-aggressive Kristi Noem with the much measured Markwayne Mullin arsenic DHS secretary, a determination demanded by Democrats, the shutdown seems absurd.

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This did not halt Michigan Senate campaigner Abdul El-Sayed from appearing onstage with antisemitic heartthrob Hasan Piker connected Tuesday and saying, "ICE cannot beryllium reformed, ICE cannot beryllium restrained, ICE indispensable beryllium abolished."

El-Sayed, who has said that galore of his constituents are successful mourning implicit the decease of Ayatollah Khameini, wants nary enforcement of migration laws, adjacent successful the look of caller Islamic panic attacks, including the onslaught connected a synagogue successful Michigan.

Michigan Senate campaigner Abdul El-Sayed poses for a representation successful Grand Rapids, Michigan, connected Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.  ((Photo by Evan Cobb for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

There is overmuch for the medication to larn from the airdrome charm offensive, and possibly a accidental for a spot of a pivot.

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In fairness to Noem, she was tasked with creating an representation of ICE that was a small scary. In her present infamous TV ads, she warned that anyone present illegally, not conscionable the worst of the worst, would find themselves deported.

There is simply a beardown statement to beryllium made that this assertive posture helped pb to the 2 cardinal self-deportations we person frankincense acold seen nether Trump 2.0.

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But the fig of radical consenting to self-deport is apt finite, which means it whitethorn beryllium clip for ICE to instrumentality a much targeted approach. That leaves it little susceptible to Democrats’ lies.

In our airports, ICE agents melted the hearts of the traveling public. Now they indispensable bash the aforesaid with the remainder of the nation.

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