The Left’s obsession with illegal immigration is getting worse, and weirder, as it strains to resist any and all attempts to enforce immigration law.

The immigration raids in and around Los Angeles have resulted in more violent actions from “protesters” and more ridiculous defenses from Democratic politicians. On the latter front, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called President Donald Trump “scum” for a raid that resulted in “Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.”

Weirdly, Newsom did not think to find out why nearly a dozen children were out in fields in the hot Camarillo sun in the first place. Unless the marijuana facility that runs the farm was having a Take Your Child to Work Day, there does not seem to be an innocent explanation available. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott claims that all 10 children at the facility were illegal immigrants, that eight of them were unaccompanied, meaning their mothers were not being taken from the fields as Newsom claimed, and that the facility is now being investigated for child labor violations.

Either Newsom plans on making illegal immigrant child labor for every marijuana farm part of his 2028 campaign, or he recklessly dove into a story he didn’t know anything about because he is trying to defend illegal immigration. To say neither option is a good look would be an understatement.

Meanwhile, new video shows a “protester” firing some sort of gun at federal agents while activists showed their support for alleged illegal immigrant child labor at marijuana farms. The best-case scenario is that this was not a real gun, and that the offender in question was merely assaulting federal agents while risking the possibility that agents would open fire on him, putting the lives of other protesters in danger. Obviously, the worst-case scenario is that it was a real gun, and this man was trying to kill federal agents, adding him to a growing list of violent left-wing thugs trying to kill law enforcement officers.

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On the political front, Democrats continue fighting to unmask federal agents. The stated goal of this is to hold ICE officers accountable, which is ridiculous. Unlike masked left-wing rioters, ICE is an agency. Democrats can hold ICE “accountable” whenever they wish. The actual, unstated goal of this is to allow left-wing mobs to harass individual federal agents and scare them off the job. There has yet to be a good argument against allowing ICE officers, who are arresting cartel members and criminals, to wear masks.

Things are only going to get crazier. Democrats are doing everything in their power to defend illegal immigration at any and all costs. The violence will escalate because Democrats refuse to prosecute their violent activist base. Democrats are going to continue to whitewash the offenses committed by illegal immigrants and the people employing them, because they refuse to acknowledge that violent criminal illegal immigrants and employers undermining employment laws are bad things. They can’t admit any of this because they are obsessed with defending the practice of illegal immigration itself.