For months, Democratic officials have sought to block cooperation with ICE

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The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota, did not arise by accident. It’s the product of a combustible mix of deliberate obstruction by Democratic officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Together, these forces have produced exactly the chaos critics warned about and have now forced the administration into a public course correction. 

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On Jan. 27, the administration announced that Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief overseeing operations in Minnesota, had been removed from his post and is expected to return to El Centro, California. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly under intense scrutiny as well, following her department’s handling of two fatal encounters in which American citizens were shot by federal agents under disputed circumstances. Those failures have placed the administration on the defensive and handed political momentum to its opponents. 

But the story does not begin with those shootings. It begins with the systematic obstruction of federal law by Democratic leaders in blue states and cities. 

For months, Democratic officials have sought to block........

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