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Libertarians who join the anti-ICE crowd are being duped by the anti-American left

“Don’t tread on me” used to be a slogan conservatives and libertarians alike could rally around.

But since the Trump administration started cracking down on illegal immigration, many libertarians have become confused.

A spate of articles with titles like “Where Have the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Republicans Gone?” and “Where Are All the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Americans?” has cropped up in publications ranging from libertarian mainstay Reason magazine to DC insider site The Hill.

Have conservatives turned their backs on the Gadsden Flag — the Revolutionary War symbol that shows a rattlesnake against a yellow background with the words “Don’t tread on me” below — by supporting what Reason calls “police-state immigration tactics”?

Just the opposite: It’s libertarians who’ve wound up as dupes of the anti-American left.

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Minneapolis proves the point: In their efforts to thwart America’s immigration laws, what did anti-ICE activists do? They set up “borders” of their own, with barricades blocking streets and “protesters” demanding ID from anyone trying to get past.

And what comes next may be what was........

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