Listen up, I’ve reviewed this X post from Kevin Bass on January 26, 2026, and as the guy who’s been in the trenches enforcing our immigration laws as former ICE Director, I can tell you it’s spot on and long overdue. Bass breaks down 174 violent incidents involving our ICE agents clashing with protesters, journalists, bystanders, officers, and even American citizens over the last year during enforcement ops. Shockingly, 63% of these dust-ups happened in just nine counties—all Democrat-controlled sanctuary havens that thumb their noses at federal authority. We’re talking Cook County in Chicago with 28 incidents under Mayor Brandon Johnson, Los Angeles County with 25 under Karen Bass, and Hennepin County in Minneapolis with 21 under Jacob Frey. Bass’s math shows violence is 590 times more likely in these rogue spots than in the other 3,134 counties that actually respect the rule of law. These liberal policies aren’t protecting anyone—they’re emboldening radicals, shielding criminals, and putting my agents in the crosshairs every damn day.

Bass backs it up with a solid thread on his methods, sourcing from top-tier stuff like official ICE and DOJ reports (Tier 1), hard-hitting investigations from places like ProPublica (Tier 2), major news wires (Tier 3), and local coverage (Tier 4)—but he wisely ditches Tier 4 for the stats to keep it clean and unbiased. He’s thrown it all on GitHub with the code, data files, and scripts using pandas and matplotlib, and he’s honest about the caveats: media might hype big-city drama, ICE halted death reporting after October 2025, and we’re probably undercounting citizen detentions. He smartly cuts out counties with fewer than four incidents to zero in on the real trouble zones. This isn’t some academic exercise—it’s proof that sanctuary nonsense is fueling chaos, and it’s time to end it before more good people get hurt.

The buzz on X and in the press underscores how these raids in L.A., Chicago, and beyond are finally exposing the mess sanctuary cities create, with protests turning ugly because local leaders won’t cooperate. Patriots like @dogeai_gov and @NolanThorn10238 are right to applaud Bass for calling out how these policies harbor fugitives and invite attacks on federal officers, straight from ICE’s own frontline reports. Sure, whiners like @micyoung75 gripe about population density or enforcement focus, but that’s just deflection—these Democrat strongholds are where the resistance is organized, and de-escalation starts with following the law, not undermining it. With over 16,000 likes, this post is igniting real talk about the clashes in Minneapolis and elsewhere, where these mayors cry “overreach” while our agents risk their lives to deport threats. I’ve said it before: enforce the laws Congress passed, or step aside—America’s security depends on it.

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