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by DYLAN NOLAN
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As cable news and political pundits ceaselessly covered the fatal shooting of Minnesota nurse Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was reportedly telling president Donald Trump to tone back his immigration enforcement push.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Graham phoned Trump last Saturday to express his concerns over the public perception of the federal deportation operations the administration is conducting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Federal agents have been pursuing suspects in Minneapolis for weeks, rounding up criminally charged illegal aliens willingly released by local officials. These local agencies have steadfastly refused to comply with federal requests that their municipalities keep illegal aliens charged with crimes in their custody to facilitate their orderly detainment by federal officials.
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The release of these criminally charged illegal aliens back onto the streets by so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions has resulted in federal officials resorting to apprehending these individuals in their homes and on the streets – a practice that has left them exposed to counter-protesters who have been granted free reign to riot and violently interfere in deportation operations.
Local and state officials in Minnesota have not only fanned the flames of these protests, they have instructed police not to intervene in the lawlessness.
While these protests seem organic to casual observers, recently released Signal group chats revealed highly organized efforts to track, identify and harass ICE officers and members of the public who dare show support for deportation operations.
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As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters,…
— Eric Schwalm (@Schwalm5132) January 25, 2026
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In a recent tweet, U.S. vice president JD Vance called the protests “engineered chaos,” noting they would not be possible without “far left agitators working with local authorities.”
The situation harkens back to the summer of 2020, when George Floyd protesters were mysteriously delivered palettes of bricks at protest locations across the country. Those familiar the price of bricks know one does not simply forget pallets of bricks in an urban area during a riot.
Trump’s response to the ICE protests mirrors his response to the Floyd protests, where he declined to use his authority to order the federal government to quell riots that eventually burned down blocks of cities nationwide and resulted in multiple deaths.
Trump appears to be taking the same tact in Minnesota after multiple activists have committed “suicide by ICE.”
While the deaths of Pretti and Renee Nicole Good (another Minnesotan was shot by ICE agents after attempting to run them over with her car) are tragic – they were also predictable and not a valid reason not to enforce the law.
News flash: if you attempt to run a cop over with your car, there’s a good chance you’re going to get shot – the same goes for instigating a confrontation with officers attempting to enforce the law while carrying a loaded hand gun. This isn’t specific to ICE, either, as cops from any jurisdiction anywhere will end your life if they have good reason to believe you intend to end theirs.
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BREAKING: Newly obtained BBC footage shows a man who looks like Alex Petti, armed, spitting at federal agents, and kicking out a taillight one week before the CBP incident that resulted in his death.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 28, 2026
pic.twitter.com/CYO0u7RoQH
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Still, any person with a heart grieves when they see film of Good or Pretti’s last moments, which is exactly why self-immolatory stunts like these are performed in the first place.
According to the WSJ report, Graham told Trump “the White House needed to find a way to pivot the narrative away from the shootings.”
As typically happens in Washington D.C., so called “Republicans” are just as active in advancing these “narratives” as are Democrats, with former South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy taking aim at Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kristi Noem‘s response to the shootings during his FOX News television program.
The dirty little secret is that the business behemoths who bankroll the GOP are economically addicted to the quasi-indentured servitude that illegal aliens render, and are desperate to erode the broad public support for deportations that drove Trump’s electoral victories.
While Republican corporate-shill legislators (and commentators) risk reputational harm if they directly disown a voter base fed up with the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, insurance and housing driven by the tens of millions of illegal aliens previously permitted to flow into the country – they are more than happy to leverage narratives to demand Trump back off of deportation operations not amenable to K Street lobbyists.
And some, like Graham, are so insulated from political consequence they don’t even have to be circuitous about it.
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Graham famously voted to extend the 2018 government shutdown in protest of Trump’s call to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program – which seeks to legalize adults who were brought into the country as children illegally.
Fast forward to 2026 and Graham is enthusiastically backing a bill to ban sanctuary cities, a measure unlikely to succeed in a Congress that has largely failed to codify much of Trump’s agenda.
Still, Graham noted in a tweet he has “done things with Democrats on numerous occasions that were not popular with my base but were good for the country,” Graham asked Democrats to “do the same.”
While Graham is correct in saying he has spit in the eye of his supporters on countless occasions, it is laughable to expect Democrats to compromise on this issue as they attempt to defund ICE. Similarly, it is laughable to expect congressional Republicans to lift a finger to do a thing about illegal immigration.
That issue has required executive action.
In a campaign video addressing the Minnesota riots, U.S. Senate candidate Mark Lynch said the quiet part out loud.
“At this point it’s obvious our Congress doesn’t want these people deported,” Lynch recalled, noting that Trump voters were “promised mass deportations.”
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Lynch accused Graham of “leading the way with appeasement” through his various pushes to legalize non-citizens.
“We know what comes after appeasement,” Lynch said. “Our enemies will double down and come back stronger.”
It appears the GOP failed to learn this lesson after Ronald Reagan‘s illegal immigrant amnesty encouraged millions more to illegally come to the U.S. in hopes of receiving similar treatment… or perhaps the GOP is being paid to forget this lesson.
While it can be understood why Lynch would target Graham’s history of squishiness on the issue of immigration – he is trying to oust him from office after all – perhaps the greatest disappointment is the man Lynch didn’t criticize (Trump).
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Nobody made the Trump-controlled RNC print and distribute “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” placards at the 2024 Republican National Convention – he chose to run on an agenda that it is becoming increasingly clear he has no desire to execute it.
Trump doesn’t need a dollar more from Congress or a single additional ICE agent, if his administration were to take the advice of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and demand banks stop facilitating the financial lives of illegal immigrants, the deportation would take care of itself.
Until such actions are taken, it’s safe to assume there’s actually very little daylight between Graham and Trump on the issue that Trump used to distinguish himself from D.C. swamp scum like Graham.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
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Dylan Nolan is the director of special projects at FITSNews. He graduated from the Darla Moore school of business in 2021 with an accounting degree. Got a tip or story idea for Dylan? Email him here. You can also engage him socially @DNolan2000.
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16 comments
Really Dylan Nolan?
“While Republican corporate-shill legislators (and commentators) risk reputational harm if they directly disown a voter base fed up with the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, insurance and housing driven by the tens of millions of illegal aliens previously permitted to flow into the country – they are more than happy to leverage narratives to demand Trump back off of deportation operations not amenable to K Street lobbyists.”?
” insurance and housing driven by the tens of millions of illegal aliens”?
When did YOU ever hammer a nail into a beam in a construction site?
When did YOU ever go into a field and collect produce and harvest food?
When did YOU ever empty an elderly relative’s bedpan?
Heck! Did you ever even SEE or HEAR OF any of those political candidate do any of these things?
All they say is “I hate immigrants. Elect me!” Only to be answered by the opponent, “I hate immigrants more. Elect ME!”
Whom does that remind you of?
It reminds ME of Strom Thurmond who preached “segregation now and forever” while raping a black teenager and fathering a biracial daughter whom he did not publicly acknowledge in his lifetime even when it was politically safe for him to do so.
Perhaps Congress does not want these people deported. But that is ONLY because Congress knows no one else is willing to do the work that keeps natural-born Americans alive.
The idea of de-banking hard-workers means one thing: they want them to work but not get paid AT ALL.
Their purpose is new slavery. Remember that black candidate for North Carolina governor as recently as 2024?
He reportedly called himself a new Hitler and visited “Nude Africa” porn sites.
Those hypocrites may call themselves real Republicans. But I hope they do not commit the blasphemy of calling themselves Christian.
I think Will Folks should fire Dylan Nolan.
Your screen name is accurate and fitting.
Mr Nolan hit the nail on the head.
These invaders are doing jobs Americans won’t do because they have undercut our wages so severely that no American will do them for the low pay scale they have created in all markets. They are a burden on our medical/hospitals/ER’s. They clig up ER’s and rarely pay for services, driving up medical and insurance costs for citizens.
And who is paying those artificially low wages according to you? It is not American employers?
Real patriotic Americans should be WANTING to do these jobs FOR FREE to keep their fellow Americans housed, fed, and bed-pan-emptied.
And do not get me wrong, I am not singling out any race or nationality. Since the dawn of history, people were willing to die in battles to enslave others to do work rather than live in peace and do the work themselves.
True Christianity aimed and still aims to change all that.
Remember what Jesus Christ said in Matthew 20:26 and Mark 10:43?
For those too lazy to look it up for themselves, I, the most lawful immigrant in America, quote it: “whoever wants to be great must become a servant TO ALL.”
So, for America to become “great” again, it must become the nation of servants it never was.
It was always a nation importing servants. True greatness is self-sufficiency.
And who is paying those artificially low wages according to you? It is not American employers?
Real patriotic Americans should be WANTING to do these jobs FOR FREE to keep their fellow Americans housed, fed, and bed-pan-emptied.
And do not get me wrong, I am not singling out any race or nationality. Since the dawn of history, people were willing to die in battles to enslave others to do work rather than live in peace and do the work themselves.
True Christianity aimed and still aims to change all that.
Remember what Jesus Christ said in Matthew 20:26 and Mark 10:43?
For those too lazy to look it up for themselves, I, the most lawful immigrant in America, quote it: “whoever wants to be great must become a servant TO ALL.”
So, for America to become “great” again, it must become the nation of servants it never was.
It was always a nation importing servants. True greatness is self-sufficiency.
Dylan Nolan, another excellent article! In his first term, I noted Trump’s hesitancy to do anything about the illegals. His first budget in 2017, he signed with zero provisions for a wall. You know, that thing that was a cornerstone of his campaign and that he promised would be a priority? When asked about it, Trump called it “an oversight” and said it would not happen again. A year later, our hero was about to sign his second budget, again with zero provisions for a wall. Pundit Ann Coulter called Trump on it, seriously pissing him off in the process. This was folliwed by the (then) longest GovCo shutdown in history, over funding for a wall. Just when the Democrats and RINOs were about to deal with Trump on this issue, he folded like a piece of cheap lawn furniture and declared that the shutdown was hurting toi many people, as he signed the budget, with no provision for a wall. By the time he got through spasmodically seeking funding and construction actually started on a wall, Trump’s term was halfway over. Of course, Biden got to decide on whether this fraction of a supposedly intended wall were completed or not and we know how that ended. He was weak on border enforcement, ordering unarmed National Guard to the border, not to stop invaders, but to “observe” them, and later assist with medical evaluation, transportation, and billeting of invaders.
In the current fiasco in Minnesota, has anyone else noticed how you never see footage of ICE with illegals in tow? Seriously, all I ever see is ICE mixing it up in the streets with dumbasses who want these parasites to remain here. Where are the illegals they are catching? Are they indeed catching any illegals, or is this just another theatrical production courtesy of GovCo and Old Ketchup Ear, made to keep the masses believing that Old Ketchup Ear (OKE) is actually doing what he was (s)elected to do, supposedly?
Lindseypoo is following his heart. He has always wanted the illegals to stay, probably for the cheap labor. It must be a dilemma for him, trying to act like a “conservative” on the home stretch to his election year, yet cautioning OKE to back off from his deportation facade. Years ago, Lindseypoo reportedly said that “voters have short memories”, something that unfortunately is true.
Reportedly, Lindseypoo went on that he could do as he pleased during the first four year of his six year term, so long as he behaved (pretended to be a Republican) during the last two years leading up to his next election.
I hope Mr Lynch finally unseats this charlatan and war monger who has ben an embarassment to South Carolina for too long. Lynch, sadly, is wise not to criticize Trump as there are still so many Trumptards who actually believe that OKE is trying to Make America Great Again.
Check your frivolous allegations. Wall construction took place during Trump’s first term.
Some DJT haters are motivated to speak mistruths. It’s a condition sometimes referred to as “mythomania.”
Lol…yeah he did. Like 80 miles of new border wall was built during Trump’s first term. Anything else was reinforcement or maintenance to the wall that was already there.
I never said that no wall construction took place in his first term. Admittedly, my post had a few typos due to distractions as I was writing, but please re-read. I correctly noted that due to Trump’s bumbling and stumbling (I believe, intentionally), construction did not begin until his term was halfway over. He accomplished a fraction of the supposed intended amount of wall before Biden took over. Of course, Biden did not want a wall, but he was open about it. No, I am not a Biden fan, just giving the devil his due. Just think how much wall would have been built if he had treated it as the priority item he claimed he was going to if elected, but didn’t.
How you people continue to overlook his many betrayals (2A for instance), backtracks, lies, and failures; making endless excuses for them, is beyond me. It should be obvious to any thinking person with eyes to see, ears to hear, and a brain, that Trump is a Deep State, NWO/JWO Trojan horse.
Graham has always defended lawless invaders in many ways.
Back in the 2000s at a townhall meeting over 100 of his constituents, they demanded even then for illegal aliens to be deported. Graham basically told them he was opposed to their demands. That caused one hell of a backlash upon him at that meeting. He literally raised his voice and actually SCREAMED at attendees that they were wrong and that he was right!
Those that follow him and are keen to psychopaths in sheep clothing know Graham has never been trustworthy in the least.
Why he has survived this long is questionable. Rigged elections?
Graham is a back-stabbing………
FITS is back at not posting my replies; and it is not as if he were solicitous of “Observer’s” feelings. Proof: he let at least one Cola Man reply to “Observer.”
What FITS is doing is grooming his spoilt child Dylan Nolan to be a believable liar as FITS did with Malicious Mandy Matney, who did not delay in turning on Will Folks ferociously.
While waiting for an inevitably similar outcome between Dylan Nolan and Will Folks, I re-post my reply to “Observer” while keeping my invitation open to Will Folks to run it or go coercive-control himself:
And who is paying those artificially low wages according to you? It is not American employers?
Real patriotic Americans should be WANTING to do these jobs FOR FREE to keep their fellow Americans housed, fed, and bed-pan-emptied.
And do not get me wrong, I am not singling out any race or nationality. Since the dawn of history, people were willing to die in battles to enslave others to do work rather than live in peace and do the work themselves.
True Christianity aimed and still aims to change all that.
Remember what Jesus Christ said in Matthew 20:26 and Mark 10:43?
For those too lazy to look it up for themselves, I, the most lawful immigrant in America, quote it: “whoever wants to be great must become a servant TO ALL.”
So, for America to become “great” again, it must become the nation of servants it never was.
It was always a nation importing servants. True greatness is self-sufficiency.
Not too far from the subject of safety and not to be a kill-joy but to be myself, an MD, MPH committed to prevention: If you have the slightest diagnosis, history, family history, and/or risk factor, of coronary heart disease, DO NOT play in the snow, DO NOT shovel snow, DO NOT EVEN go out in the snow, and most definitely DO NOT CHASE A PET in the snow. A less prevalent type of angina pectoris is known as Prinzmetal angina or variant angina is triggered by cold specially with physical exertion. And even the more prevalent “obstructive” angina due to coronary artery plaque is more symptomatic in the cold, to say nothing of the risk of falling in the snow and all the possible sequalae of that. Stay inside and, if you must have some memories, watch through clean and insulating glass, as properly-dressed children chaperoned by young and healthy adult(s) play.
Not too far from the subject of safety and not to be a kill-joy but to be myself, an MD, MPH committed to prevention: If you have the slightest diagnosis, history, family history, and/or risk factor, of coronary heart disease, DO NOT play in the snow, DO NOT shovel snow, DO NOT EVEN go out in the snow, and most definitely DO NOT CHASE A PET in the snow. A less prevalent type of angina pectoris is known as Prinzmetal angina or variant angina is triggered by cold specially with physical exertion. And even the more prevalent “obstructive” angina due to coronary artery plaque is more symptomatic in the cold, to say nothing of the risk of falling in the snow and all the possible sequalae of that. Stay inside and, if you must have some memories, watch through clean and insulating glass, as properly-dressed children chaperoned by young and healthy adult(s) play.
naturally like your web site however you need to take a look at the spelling on several of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very bothersome to tell the truth on the other hand I will surely come again again.
All things being related to some degree or another, I just re-posted this on the excellent Lawyer Lee’s (out of Georgia, not South Carolina) channel these comments which I had made on Annie Emmerson’s Criminally Obsessed interview with South Carolina Attorney and autobiography author Eric Bland.
For time constraints, I need to paste them everywhere else possible:
“Ever Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) is the incarnation of hypocrisy. Let me count SOME of the ways:
1. EBEB now says Buster should sue because he was defamed as gay and as a batterer of Stephen Smith to hide the affair. But it was none other than EBEB who picked up the representation of Stephen Smith’s mother, Sanctimonious Sandy Smith (“SSS”), after her previous attorney had dropped SSS because she would not accept the CLEAR evidence that Buster was NOT involved in any way in Stephen Smith’s end-of-life story,
2 – 100. Shall, God willing and Annie Emerson permitting, be posted if this initial comment goes through.
“@CriminallyObsessed, you are UNABASHEDLY helping Ever Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) violate the rules of professional ethics for lawyers: “RULE 4.5: THREATENING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION A lawyer shall not present, participate in presenting, or threaten to present criminal or professional disciplinary charges solely to obtain an advantage in a civil matter. Comment This Rule is not included in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The language of this Rule is based upon DR 7 105 of the Code of Professional Responsibility.”
Can’t get away from Murdaugh. So, here is a comment on his case:
I am also tired of hearing about the supposedly-poor “Satterfield boys.”
First, at least one of them is a grown fully-employed man.
Second, Gloria Satterfield died IN HOSPITAL of A HEART ATTACK 24 days after having fallen at Moselle because of her CHRONIC DIABETES and TERMINAL RENAL FAILURE.
Third, they got TEN MILLION DOLLARS and wanted more.
What lawyer in South Carolina goes around giving money to fully-employed grown men whose mother died of diabetes?
The Satterfields are as much thieves as Alex Murdaugh, They were in on the insurance fraud scheme because they knew there were no dogs which caused Gloria’s fall at Moselle.
The Satterfields’ only issue is that Alex Murdaugh kept all the loot to himself.
I would also not be surprised if they turned out to be the real killers of Paul and Maggie in revenge for Alex keeping the loot to himself.
Look what happened after Alex was convicted! The Satterfields got TEN MILLION dollars from Alex’s law firm and his bank of which they would NOT HAVE GOTTEN A PENNY if Paul and Maggie were alive and able to testify that there were no dogs causing Gloria’s fall.
If you so easily believe that a man would kill his wife and son to distract from having “stolen” $3M from an insurance company, why can’t you believe that two men would kill two strangers to get TEN MILLION DOLLARS?