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Thursday’s New Orleans City Council meeting erupted into chaos as anti-ICE demonstrators stormed the chamber, shouted down officials, and forced council members to suspend the meeting amid tense confrontations with police. Videos and eyewitness accounts show dozens of activists refusing to leave, prompting officers to physically remove several participants as protesters screamed and chanted slogans inside City Hall.
The disturbance followed the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement of Operation Catahoula Crunch, a two-month effort deploying roughly 250 Border Patrol agents to southeast Louisiana aimed at rounding up violent criminal illegal aliens. Federal officials say the operation targets serious offenders released under sanctuary policies, a necessary step to protect communities that have too often been forced to tolerate lawlessness.
Outrage from the left and open-border activists is predictable, but their tantrum inside a democratic governing body is contemptible. Protesters chanted anti-American slogans, tried to seize the podium, and even screamed at officers who were simply doing their jobs to keep order; this is not civic engagement, it is mob theater that rewards lawlessness.
Americans who care about safety should be grateful federal agents are finally enforcing immigration laws that local sanctuary policies have ignored for years. DHS leadership has been clear: the mission is to remove violent offenders — the very people who prey on neighborhoods and erode trust in public safety — and restoring order is not a partisan luxury but a basic responsibility of government.
Local politicians who cozy up to sanctuary theater while pleading helplessness when crime rises are part of the problem, not the solution. With the state’s cooperation and a new administration about to take the reins in the city, there’s now a real clash between those who prioritize public safety and those who put ideology ahead of citizens’ well-being.
Make no mistake: the left’s playbook is to intimidate officials, disrupt public institutions, and weaponize sympathy to shield criminals and exploit tragedies. Working-class New Orleanians pay the price when elected leaders bow to pressure instead of backing law enforcement and common-sense immigration enforcement that keeps neighborhoods safe and businesses open.
Patriots who love this country should demand that city leaders stop staging virtue-signaling shows and start defending the rule of law. It’s time for elected officials to stand with police and federal partners, reject lawless mobs, and put the safety of American families ahead of political theater.
