Every Jewish child, even if he knows nothing else, knows one question: מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת. That question comes from the Passover service, when a child asks those at the table, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” The answer, of course, is that Passover is the night on which we commemorate how God liberated the Jews from Egyptian slavery, a moment that led to the seminal Ten Commandments and the Jews’ return to their land.

It is, in other words, an important question: Why is this one thing different from all other things? (For the non-Jewish among us, you can go to Sesame Street for a similar question.)

That same question applies with equal, although entirely non-religious weight, to events in Minneapolis: Why is this city different from all other cities?

Why, in almost all cities across America, are ICE operations conducted peacefully?

Why, in almost all cities across America, are there no reports of ICE agents injuring or killing people?

Why, in almost all cities across America, are there no reports of ICE agents being rammed by cars, beaten, doused with freezing water, verbally harassed, or having their fingers bitten off?

When framed that way, it’s easy to see that the unique factor isn’t ICE, which operates smoothly and peacefully just about everywhere. Instead, the problem is a handful of radicalized Democrat-run cities (e.g., Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland). They are the common denominator, not for ICE operations, but for violence.

Please note that I cannot confirm Bass’s numbers. However, we know that ICE has removed over 622,000 illegal aliens from across America, yet the only reports of violence against ICE or by ICE come from a few specific locations. The common denominator in violence isn’t ICE; it’s those cities.  

If you understand that the problem isn’t ICE but is, instead, Minneapolis and the Democrat party, you can begin to appreciate how false everything else the Democrats say really is. For example, the newest line from Illinois Gov. “Fat Tony” Pritzker is that “we ought to abolish Trump’s ICE and replace it with something else.” ICE, he adds, “needs to be revamped.”

Replaced with what? Revamped with what?

ICE exists to carry out very explicit congressional mandates: Remove and repatriate those people who have no right to be in America. Those people have been identified either as straight-out illegal without a defense or, if they claimed asylum or the benefit of some other process, as having had their claim rejected by an administrative judge. That’s it, that’s their due process. Now, they get evicted, just as any squatter would.

The only way to “replace” or “revamp” ICE is to abandon the law, since ICE’s raison d’etre is to enforce the law—and, again, it does so with stunning success and no violence in all places but for hard-left enclaves. The problem is the enclaves, not ICE.

I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, that Donald Trump needs to bring the hammer down on Minneapolis, just as Eisenhower did on Little Rock, Kennedy did on Mississippi and Alabama, and Johnson did on Selma and Los Angeles. Alternatively, he needs to cordon Minneapolis (and maybe Portland) off from the rest of America (no one goes in and no one comes out), remove all federal forces and funds, install pay-per-view cameras, and help bring down the federal debt by charging people to watch as the city implodes.

Andrea Widburg, American Thinker