This past week, leftists swarmed outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey and launched violent attacks against the ICE officers stationed there. Amid the violent riots, one left-wing activist shouted expletives at an officer, directly threatening to murder him and slaughter his entire family.
Tensions began when Democrats accused the facility of mistreating detainees, leading to protests outside the facility. The protests escalated into violent clashes against law enforcement, with reports of property damage, assault on officers, and even one individual biting police officers.
The most contemptible moment of the protests came when protester Nicholas Matthew Scelfo unleashed expletive-ridden death threats at an ICE Officer trying to control the crowd. He screamed: “I will kill your whole f***ing family. Your whole f***ing family is dead. Your children and wife all dead. I have your face mother****er! All Dead!”
Journalist Nick Sortor caught the exchange on camera, and the case caught national attention when Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed to find and arrest the man responsible for these horrendous threats. The FBI identified and arrested Scelfo, charging him with influencing, impeding, and retaliating against a federal officer by threat. He was released on $100,000 bond and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison plus fines if convicted.
Vile actions like this highlight just how murderous the Left is. ICE Agents don’t just have to worry about being killed by criminal illegal aliens or cartel members. Hordes of leftists are assaulting them in the streets, and now have escalated to target innocent families and children of ICE agents as well. This kind of behavior rises to the level of open sedition and domestic terrorism. No American should be subjected to the risk of some radical slaughtering their family, least of all law enforcement officers who already risk their lives to keep this country safe.
We cannot give in to the demands of unhinged lunatics like Scelfo and hand over our national sovereignty to foreign invaders.
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