A self-described left-wing mother has sparked outrage after declaring she would rather end her own life and that of her children than risk an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to WND, the woman, identified on TikTok as Tavi Quinn, claimed that death would be an easier out than facing ICE officers, whom she smeared as pedophiles. Her comments come amid a wave of escalating anti-ICE rhetoric following the death of Renee Good, who was shot by an ICE agent after she allegedly struck him with her vehicle in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 7.
If it comes down to me taking out myself and my kids versus us being taken and harmed by ICE, like, God help me, I did not want to do it, Quinn said, adding, This is not the life I wanted, but that is a very dark thought that Ive had. Death would be an easier out than for my children to be taken and harmed by these pedophiles.
Unrest has gripped Minnesota as mass protests have intensified, prompting President Donald Trumps administration to deploy nearly 1,000 additional ICE agents to Minneapolis so immigration authorities can carry out their duties safely. Tensions escalated further after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti on Jan. 24. Video taken by witnesses showed Pretti spitting at agents and kicking the tail light of their vehicle just 11 days before his death.
Democratic leaders have added fuel to the fire by likening federal immigration officers to Nazis, rhetoric that many critics say is both historically ignorant and dangerously inflammatory. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed that ICE is the modern-day Gestapo during a commencement address in May, and he recently invoked Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid from Nazi persecution for two years, while discussing events in his own state.
Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to get the f*** out of his city after Goods death, language that effectively demonizes federal law enforcement rather than lawbreakers. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner accused ICE of being wannabe Nazis, while Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler said Tuesday that people feel justified in shooting ICE agents because they are masked hoodlums.
The same political and media figures have also attacked ICE over its handling of a 5-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, who was left behind by his illegal-alien father as agents moved in to arrest him. The Department of Homeland Security stated on Jan. 22 that the child was taken to a Texas detention facility to stay with his father, and both were later released by order of a judge, underscoring that despite the incendiary accusations, immigration authorities continued to operate within legal and humanitarian bounds.
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