Local cops can end the Minnesota violence, lefties want no deportations and other commentary

ICE war: Local Cops Can End the Violence

To prevent “violence involving federal officers” in Minneapolis, local officials can simply order “police to cooperate” with ICE, explains The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. Such cooperation would let federal law enforcement “be handled quietly and without incident.” ICE operations in Minnesota require “not only agents to arrest the wanted person but others to protect them. Ideally that role is handled by local police.” Meanwhile, Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey “stoke the flames, perhaps because the unrest helps divert attention” from the $9 billion fraud scandal that occurred on their watch. Certainly, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is right to note that the lack of local cooperation is what explains the “so much of the dysfunction” in Minnesota.

Conservative: Lefties Want No Deportations

Despite majority approval for “deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,” the Trump administration faces “the practical difficulty of deporting people,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. It was relatively easy to “cut border incursions to nearly zero,” but already-here illegal immigrants with “teams of lawyers, advocates, and street activists on their side” are tough to dislodge. Places like Texas “deport 10 times the number of illegal aliens” as Minneapolis, without the street chaos because ICE has “the cooperation and support of local law enforcement.” But agitators in Minnesota aren’t demanding that ICE be kinder to deportees; “they want to stop the deportations” entirely. So the real question is, “Can the forces resisting federal law enforcement in Minneapolis nationalize the struggle?”

Liberal: Here’s the Democratic Youth Movement

The Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin cheers The Bench, a new outfit “seeking to organize and support” Democratic “candidates who fit the bill for politically viable generational change.” It aims to ID “candidates who fit the bill for politically viable generational change” and help change “the negative public face of Democrats.” The first crop of Bench candidates are “all in their 30s to 50s, with no candidates older than 60.” And few are lawyers, a crew that have “overrun” the party, yet “flip their principles in an instant to avoid responsibility for failures and make themselves anew.” Hope to see these new “candidates who aren’t down-the-line democratic socialists standing up” to help Dems again be “the party of economic advancement for working- and middle-class Americans.”

Libertarian: The Times Whitewashes a Dictator

“The New York Times has depicted Nicolás Maduro’s successor — Venezuelan dictator Delcy Rodríguez — as a pragmatic technocrat, a market-friendly reformer, and a “cosmopolitan” who helped to stabilize the Venezuelan economy,” grumbles Reason’s César Báez. Venezuelan expats were most outraged by an article omitting “any mention of Rodríguez’s record of corruption and human rights abuses.” One critic fumes: “Rodríguez had oversight of SEBIN, Venezuela’s secret police force, which is accused of torture, extrajudicial killings, and other human rights abuses.” What the Times praises as “economic liberalization,” notes Báez, was just “the collapse of the regime’s ability to enforce “price controls.” “The Times has helped a brutal dictator” earn “international legitimacy, while the elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, remains exiled in Spain.”

Gaza beat: Same Terrorists, New Uniforms?

Under the cease-fire terms, Hamas is supposed to disarm and disband; instead, it’s “hoping the Trump administration will let it simply change uniforms,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel. The terror group is angling to incorporate its 40,000 civil servants and security personnel into the new government, including its 10,000-strong police force — even as it’s “cracking down on dissent and murdering civilians and rivals.” What “chutzpah.” In reality, “there is no element of Hamas that is outside its terrorism designation.” Why “allow 40,000 terrorists to run postwar Gaza”? “Trump has thus far held his ground on disarming Hamas. The terror group’s latest ploy should only reinforce the need to follow through on that.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board