Immigration Enforcement Is Unavoidably Upsetting. But This Is Something Else.
January 27, 2026
In the past few days, as the shooting of Alex Pretti has induced a change of tone and of personnel in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, some of the White House’s supporters have written laments for what they see as a fatal loss of nerve. Their theme is that any concession to protesters will just encourage the same opposition tactics in every state and city, which will eventually make all internal immigration enforcement impossible, nullifying both federal law and Trump’s 2024 victory.
As for those Republicans who look at the street chaos, the growing political backlash and the two dead American citizens (so far) and think that there has to be a different way, the conservative podcaster Matt Walsh parodied their stance as follows:
