Last Tuesday, September 30th, ICE agents conducted an overnight raid at a Chicago apartment complex, and arrested 37 illegal aliens from several countries. The complex was targeted because it was frequented by members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Two gang members were among those captured along with others with criminal records. But MSNBC's Ali Velshi says that raid, and Donald Trump's speech to U.S. Generals, later that day, will make September 30th be remembered as one of the darkest days in U.S. history.
Velshi just could not get over that illegals, many with criminal records, could be successfully rounded up in the middle of the night. He opened his Saturday edition of MSNBC's Velshi by saying, "Quote, 'we are under siege. We're being invaded by our own military.' End quote. Now you'd be forgiven for thinking those were words describing Syria or North Korea, but they came from a witness describing a scene unfolding in Chicago this week." He was quoting someone named Darrell Ballard, who spoke to the ABC affiliate in Chicago about the ICE raid. Velshi went on to repeat witness claims that residents were separated into groups and led into vans. He informed his audience that, "This came with a military style name. The Trump administration called it Operation Midway Blitz ." Oh my!
Velshi went on to quote other "witnesses" to the ICE raid, and after admitting that, "this show of force resulted in 37 arrests", he went on to describe the scene after the arrests were made. "But meanwhile the debris and the wreckage left behind, resembled the aftermath of a military invasion. Personal belongings destroyed, electronics missing birth certificates and other belongings scattered throughout the hallways like the ruins of a battle." Again, gang members and criminals were captured during Velshi's "battle." Calling the illegal immigration an "invasion" is racist, but not when you're describing ICE. Then he really lost control of his metaphors:
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in modern American history. Right up there, alongside the worst civil rights era atrocities where we were raised to believe belong to the past. All of this unfolded just hours before Donald Trump told a room full of America's top generals and admirals that American cities should be used as training grounds for them. Generals and admirals flown in from every corner of the globe, only to be told their new mission is not adversaries like China or Russia, or even terrorism. Their new mission is us. Us, the American people, the so-called enemy within.
The Left loves to pretend that illegal immigrants are American citizens, and citizens are illegal immigrants. So any deportation is a war on "us." They constantly refer to illegal migrants as "our neighbors."
But "modern American history" contains mass murders, from 9/11 to the Oklahoma City bombing. How many people were killed in this Chicago apartment raid? None. Velshi continued the drama:
In the 249 years of our republic this week, this speech was our democracy's Rubicon moment. The expression crossing the Rubicon coined to describe Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon river on January the 10th in the year 49 BC, in violation of Roman law, may one day fall into disuse, replaced by Operation Midway Blitz -- September 30th, 2025, to describe a day when a country's military turns inward.
So deportation is the opposite of democracy.
Although presented in a relatively calm manner belying the hysteria of the verbiage, MSNBC sounds remarkably out of touch with the actual democratic verdict of 2024. It's intended to reinforce the conspiratorial beliefs and claims of the typical MSNBC viewer, anti-Trump, anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigrant. Scary stuff.
It's the opposite of 2020 Ali Velshi, the "news anchor" who stood in front or raging fires during the George Floyd riots insisting "it is not, generally speaking, unruly."