It’s the kind of apocalypse that no one thought they’d see outside of a Hollywood blockbuster: airports clogged with passengers, all arriving four hours early as advised, in hopes of catching flights that might still depart on time. No, it’s not the end of the world, just your average day at Baltimore’s airport nowadays. While waiting with bated breath in lines that seem to stretch on forever, passengers might be greeted by the unexpected presence of ICE agents, swept in to support overworked TSA agents who are either underpaid or not paid at all. It’s almost as if someone rolled the dice on how chaotic an airport could get and hit the jackpot.

Amidst this fanfare of logistical acrobatics, Democrats are predictably wringing their hands in horror, worrying about ICE agents in airports. Are they trained enough, they ask? Could they be a harmful force? To which the usual defenders of order respond with a resounding eye-roll. Heaven forbid someone should try to lend a hand in the midst of all this madness. After all, as Tom Homan points out, without ICE’s assistance, the waiting lines could have been much worse, if one can imagine such a nightmare.

Now, let’s talk about why these ICE agents have suddenly become the arch-nemeses of peace-loving Democrats. Apparently, it boils down to their age-old agenda: prioritize illegal aliens over hard-working American citizens, and especially those citizens who happen to wear badges. However, irony kicks in when the very people who slam ICE for merely doing their duty are the ones responsible for the chaos ensued by open-border policies, leaving citizens and legal immigrants to fend for themselves amidst a historic surge of illegal immigration.

Meanwhile, real-world tragedies are unfolding thanks to the resistors of law and order who call themselves leaders. A young girl, just 18 years old, was shot by someone who shouldn’t have been within a thousand miles of her. Enter Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, doubling down on his commitment to keep ICE agents out of his city’s airports and streets, tragically unmoved by her senseless death. You’ve got to admire his consistency, even if it’s as helpful as an ashtray on a motorcycle. The parents of these victims are left languishing while politicians pay homage to their ideologies rather than the truth of their constituents’ safety.

Over in New York, the story isn’t any different. You would think a city as fine-tuned to chaos as the Big Apple would know better than to bite the hand that keeps its streets, subways, and citizens safe. When an Air Force veteran got thrown onto subway tracks by another jewel of the open border policy, Mayor Madami found it more pertinent to label ICE as a reckless agency. Guess the safety of a war hero just isn’t as headline-worthy as aligning with the anti-ICE brigade. Yet, the difference under Trump is simple: enforcing existing laws, however distasteful they might be to those who prefer chaos over order.

So there you have it, folks. As the airport queues grow longer and urban safety grows shorter, the key players continue their ritual dance around the truth. In a landscape where self-invoked ideology reigns supreme, ICE agents running the gauntlet at airports have become the unlikely champions of an otherwise draining game of political chess. If only the naysayers could pause their caricature of indignant righteousness and take a page from sanity’s book — one might just see airports efficiently functioning and cities safely prospering once again.