Anti-ICE activists, who claim the moral high ground in opposing federal immigration enforcement, once again demonstrated that their outrage is louder than their grasp of basic facts.
According to RedState, a fresh incident in California underscored how this movements theatrics routinely collide with reality, this time in a Korean restaurant in Lynwood where three men quietly eating dinner suddenly found themselves the target of a full-blown protest.
The activists, apparently convinced they had cornered Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, descended on the establishment armed with whistles, blaring horns, and even a Mexican flag, determined to stage yet another public spectacle against federal immigration law enforcement.
There was just one problem: Except they weren't ICE. The men, as later confirmed by local media, were not immigration officers at all, but Transportation Security Administration employees, specifically federal air marshals, who had simply gone out for a meal.
LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents, drawing dozens of protesters to a Lynwood restaurant. We tried speaking with an apparent organizer but received little explanation, one report noted, capturing both the absurdity of the misidentification and the activists reluctance to account for their mistake. The episode fits a growing pattern in which anti-ICE agitators, while organized, repeatedly misidentify their targets, harassing ordinary citizens and even storming hotels where no ICE personnel are present.
Law enforcement was forced to divert resources to deal with the chaos rather than focus on genuine criminal activity. LA County Sheriff's deputies were called to help, and instead of addressing other public safety needs, they had to manage a crowd intent on punishing federal employees for a job they did not even hold.
At least in this case, deputies fulfilled their duty, kept the men safe, and settled the situation, a reminder of what local police are supposed to do, in stark contrast to the hands-off approach seen in some progressive jurisdictions such as parts of Minnesota. Look at all the police who had to come out. Crazy, one observer remarked, highlighting the disproportionate response triggered by a false accusation.
When Fox 11s Matthew Seedorff attempted to interview the demonstrators after it became clear they had targeted the wrong people, the activists clammed up. Either way, the anti-ICE crew struck out again, and when confronted with their error, they didn't want to talk with him because he was with Fox, and they knew they screwed up.
Beyond the comedy of errors lies a more troubling reality: This kind of harassment just isn't right, either for ICE agents or anyone else. Stripped of the lefts it's ICE justification, few would defend behavior that involves following people, blow whistles in their ears, scream curse words at them, and disrupt their basic right to peace and safety simply because of a political disagreement.
This isn't resisting anything except reality, as critics of these tactics have pointed out, and the delusion that such mob harassment is virtuous activism is wearing thin with the broader public. Americans are getting really tired of this crap, and each misfire like Lynwood only reinforces the perception that the anti-ICE movement is less about justice and more about performative rage directed at anyone who symbolizes lawful border enforcement under President Donald Trumps policies.
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