The American Left has always had a gift for performance. It isn’t the truth leftists are after; it’s theater.
This week, they set the stage, dimmed the lights, and cast Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as the villains.
Again.
This time, it’s a high school graduation. An empty chair. A detained student. Cue the swelling music.
The leftist media wants you to believe that America has become a land where men in black masks kidnap teenagers, ICE agents sweep through towns like stormtroopers, and poor landscapers are plucked off the streets. At the same time, rich white liberals faint on their fainting couches.
But the reality is far less cinematic. It's just the law. Ugly sometimes, yes. But necessary. The necessity of a root canal. You don’t cheer for it.
But you don’t call the dentist a fascist, either.
The Chair Heard ’Round the Media World
Maloney High School, Meriden, Conn. Graduation day. Proud parents. Teary eyes. Then, a twist: one seat was left empty for a student named Kevin, who was detained by ICE shortly before the ceremony.
The Hartford Courant tells it like a tragedy. The community rallies. Stickers are worn. A name is read aloud. We’re meant to feel outraged.
And sure, it stings. Nobody’s rooting for that kind of disruption on a kid’s big day. But this story is being weaponized. A single image, an empty chair, is used to condemn the entire concept of border enforcement.
Let’s be honest. ICE didn’t bust down the school doors with AR-15s. They followed the procedure. Kevin and his father were known to the system. Their case had gone through channels. No one was snatched in the dark.
But none of that fits the script.
The media needs you to see shadows where there are none. They want you to believe this was a Gestapo operation when it was closer to a probation officer knocking on a door.
When Enforcement Looks Like Terror
Elsewhere in Great Barrington, Mass., a different kind of image made the rounds.
A Hispanic landscaper was arrested by ICE agents wearing face coverings and driving unmarked cars. The Washington Post didn’t report it; they dramatized it.
They called it “secret police behavior.” The implication? That federal agents are acting like death squads. No context. No explanation of the warrant. No background on the subject. Just masked men and fear.
Let’s try honesty for a change.
You wear a mask to keep your face off cartel hit lists. You drive unmarked vehicles, so you don’t tip off targets. You don’t broadcast operations in advance because doing so gets people killed. This isn’t the Ivy League. It's federal law enforcement.
Yet every time ICE does its job, it’s treated like thugs.
Funny how that works. Nobody complains when the FBI shows up in unmarked vans for a wire fraud case. No tears for a white-collar crook being cuffed in his driveway.
But ICE?
Arresting someone with an expired status or a deportation order? Suddenly, it’s tyranny.
It’s not about the tactics. It’s about the target.
Katy Perry’s History-Free Sermon
Then came Katy Perry, armed with an Instagram post and a PhD in coastal guilt.
She declared that illegal immigrants are being “hunted like criminals in their own ancestral home.” Apparently, California belongs to anyone who can trace a bloodline back a few hundred years. Sovereignty be damned.
It’s the same song, over and over. Borders are cruel. Citizenship is arbitrary. Everyone’s a native if you zoom out far enough.
But I have a question for Perry. If ancestry overrides legality, does that apply to her multi-million-dollar estate in Beverly Hills? Should she hand it back to the Tongva tribe? Or does that only apply to poor people crossing the Rio Grande?
You see, it’s easy to talk about open borders when you live behind gates. It’s easy to condemn enforcement when you’re protected by private security. But for working-class folks, the ones living in strained neighborhoods with overburdened hospitals, crowded classrooms, and under-resourced police, the cost is real.
And rising.
When Feelings Try to Overrule Law
All three of these stories, the empty chair, the masked arrest, and the pop star’s lament, serve one purpose: to stir emotion. To bypass reason. To replace the process with panic.
This isn’t journalism. It’s agitation.
The Left doesn’t want immigration reform. It wants the abolition of enforcement. And because it knows that most Americans still believe in borders, it resorts to character assassination. ICE agents are painted as monsters. Not bureaucrats. Not dads or moms.
Monsters.
And once they make you believe that, the rest is easy. Every operation becomes an atrocity. Every policy becomes fascism. Every defense of sovereignty becomes a war crime.
But here’s the dirty secret: this narrative only works because Americans are decent. They don’t want to see people suffer. So the media exploits that decency, not to improve the system but to blow it up.
Real Terror Has No Badge
You want terror? I’ll show you terror.
Terror is the grandmother in Laredo who can’t walk to her mailbox because cartel scouts roam her street.
Terror is fentanyl pouring across the border in cooler bags and killing teenagers in Tennessee.
Terror is a 13-year-old girl raped in a stash house outside Phoenix, trafficked by coyotes who brag about the ease of the journey.
And while the media fixates on sticker-covered graduation robes, ICE agents are pulling double shifts trying to stem that tide.
They’re not tyrants. They’re janitors after a riot. Cleaning up what decades of political cowardice left behind.
What We Lose When the Law Becomes the Enemy
This isn’t just about immigration anymore. It’s about trust. When you turn law enforcement into the enemy, you erode something deeper than politics; you erode stability.
Because if the law can’t be enforced without being labeled “cruel,” then eventually, the law means nothing. And if the media gets to decide who wears the white hat and who wears the black, regardless of the facts, then truth becomes nothing more than a matter of opinion.
And moods change fast.
If you’re terrified of ICE, the media did their job.
But if you’re angry that your country’s being gaslit into surrendering its right to self-determination, then welcome to the club.
We’ve been waiting for you.
Borders Aren’t Cruel. They’re Civilization.
A borderless world is a fantasy. And a cruel one at that.
Ask the families shattered by fentanyl.
Ask the ranchers who bury migrants who never made it across.
Ask the kids stuck in classrooms where English isn’t spoken, and discipline’s a joke.
We don’t need fewer ICE agents. We need more truth-tellers willing to say what this is:
This is a campaign. A well-funded, media-backed, emotionally manipulated campaign to make the idea of law itself repulsive. To shame us into silence. To turn decency into surrender.
But if the Left wants to keep staging morality plays with empty chairs, they should be careful.
They’re not just spotlighting injustice. They’re revealing exactly what happens when you confuse kindness with chaos. And the audience? They're starting to notice.
Final Word:
We can’t afford to be the generation that apologized for having a border. Or for having the courage to defend it.
ICE isn’t the villain.
They’re the last ones standing between order and open season.
