After weeks of tumultuous anti-ICE riots in Minneapolis, the violent confrontations were finally diffused when Minnesota officials started working with federal agencies to protect the public and ICE adjusted to less overt tactics to protect law enforcement officers. Democrat fervor against deporting illegal immigrant criminals remained, but they had no specific stage to scream their propaganda and try to shock the electorate with their antics. Missing the limelight, Democrats picked a new target and dispatched militant ANTIFA rioters to Newark to establish a beachhead and set up a new theater of the absurd.

Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey has been in operation long before President Trump’s first term. Recent ridiculous allegations of squalid conditions are demonstrably false; it has a record as a well-run facility with a full range of services available to illegal immigrants processed there. Despite Democrat crocodile tears, there is no concern about prison conditions; the goal is to create chaos, manufacture outrage, and hopefully incur casualties.

Protesting is an American tradition, but Americans reject gratuitous violence. The ANTIFA mob in Newark is not protesting, they are physically assaulting ICE officers. Delaney Hall is under siege. These hooligans are desperately trying to injure ICE officers and openly threatening their families which is unconscionable.

Relatively small in number, the ANTIFA foot soldiers are intensely hateful and vicious. They are unable to stop ICE operations, but they relentlessly taunt officers desperately trying to precipitate altercations. Protesting is about making your voice heard not bashing your opponents’ head in.

Why are ANTIFA hoodlums risking bodily harm? Other than they are extremists and many are mentally unstable, ANTIFA overlords want a martyr. In short, ANTIFA is simply cannon fodder for Democrats’ designs on power. They crave a casualty that they can canonize like George Floyd and use to besmirch law enforcement and rally low information voters against deportations and thereby damage Trump.

If they can force an error with some casualty, they will parade that person’s corpse for months to try and foster outrage. Contrast the Democrat Media Complex worship of George Floyd with the horrific murder of Henry Nowak in England. Nowak was stabbed by a Sikh man for an alleged racial slur. When police arrived, they cuffed Nowak not the assailant, rendered no medical aid, and stood idly by while he bled out on the pavement. The British media is trying hard to ignore this gross inhumane injustice.

The problem for Democrats is the public has grown weary of their over-the-top shenanigans and know it’s not organic – the rioters are hired guns, and most are from out of state as admitted by the new Jersey Governor. Thugs from as far away as Portland Oregon have descended on Newark.

The big question then is who is coordinating, organizing, and funding these attacks on our government? The outrage is fake; it’s orchestrated and quite likely sedition. The Department of Justice (DOJ) can root out criminal organizations by following the money, so why don’t they know who is paying to thwart our immigration laws?!

Americans still overwhelming demand illegal immigration be stopped and illegal immigrants be deported. This charade of fabricated outrage has become tedious, and Americans are tired of the violence. One ANTIFA rioter even bit an ICE officer! Enough is enough!

ANTIFA and their gang of misfits are not protesting; they are actively attacking ICE officers with intent to do bodily harm daily. It’s past time to arrest them as soon as they show up. Prosecute them vigorously and lock them up. Americans understand disagreement and will tolerate protests, but the mayhem must be stopped.

DOJ must expose the power brokers paying to attack ICE and indict them. Americans deserve to know who is undermining our country and our security. This is no longer about disagreements about policy; it’s about open rebellion. Americans want this insurrection put down.

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.