The United States experienced a mass incursion of illegal border crossers in the years 2021 to 2025. Estimates vary, but in that period at least 9 million people entered the U.S. illegally. Rather than turn them back, former President Joe Biden allowed most to stay, with little or no vetting. Administration officials denied that there was a problem, periodically declaring the border "closed" when in fact 200,000 to 300,000 were crossing illegally each month. When officials conceded that there was a problem, Democrats argued that only sweeping immigration legislation would solve it.

Of course, all that changed with the election of President Donald Trump. Without any new legislation, the new administration cut border incursions to nearly zero. But the question remained: What about the 9 million or more who had recently entered the U.S. illegally? Would the Trump administration allow them to remain in the country?

That is the question at the heart of the current rebellion against federal authority in Minneapolis. Yes, some Trump administration officials have explained that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents are simply going after "the worst of the worst." Indeed, they have arrested a lot of people who entered the U.S. illegally and then committed crimes, some of them horrendous crimes. They have also discovered people who entered illegally after having committed crimes in their home countries. Perhaps some progressive activists would disagree, but a large majority of Americans support the deportation of those illegal border crossers.

But what about the illegal border crossers who have not committed any additional crimes........

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