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Houston-area ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers recently carried out a nighttime enforcement action that resulted in the takedown of two unlawfully present individuals, both allegedly intoxicated and reportedly resisting arrest. The short video clip circulating online shows agents doing the hard, necessary work most politicians won’t do, confronting danger in the dark so ordinary citizens don’t have to.
This kind of targeted night operation is exactly the kind of public-safety work conservatives have been demanding: focused, decisive, and unapologetic about enforcing the law. When suspects are found to be intoxicated and fighting officers, it’s proof positive that lax border policies are not some abstract policy debate but a real threat to neighborhoods and highways. ICE’s emphasis on going after DWI offenders and other egregious violators is a commonsense response to a predictable problem.
Make no mistake: this isn’t isolated or unusual for the Houston field office, which has run multiple concentrated operations that have taken hundreds of criminal aliens off the streets in recent months. Large-scale sweeps and weeklong operations in the region have netted hundreds of arrests as part of a renewed commitment to public safety, showing that enforcement at scale produces measurable results for communities. Citizens deserve safety, and vigorous enforcement sends the right message that crossing our border illegally and committing crimes will not be tolerated.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects in city halls and state capitals—sanctuary politicians and open-borders ideologues—turn a blind eye while hardworking taxpayers pay the price for their virtue signaling. Voters must remember which elected officials cheer for soft-on-crime policies and which stand with law enforcement protecting families and commerce. There is a direct line from permissive border policy to drunk driving on our roads and resistance to police when officers do their duty.
If Washington truly cared about Americans, Congress would increase resources for ICE and our federal law-enforcement partners instead of gutting them for the sake of political theater. We should fund targeted operations, expand detention capacity for dangerous repeat offenders, and give officers the tools they need to remove criminal aliens swiftly and safely. Supporting men and women who risk their lives to keep streets safe is not controversial — it is patriotic.
The footage of suspects resisting arrest while allegedly intoxicated is a blunt reminder of the danger our officers face every night on the job. Driving drunk and then fighting law enforcement compounds the risk to the public and to the agents trying to do what elected officials refuse to do: enforce federal law and protect communities. Every prevented DWI could mean a life saved, every removed repeat offender keeps families out of hospital waiting rooms and court dockets.
Americans who love law, order, and liberty should applaud these operations and demand more of their leaders. Politicians who side with open-borders activists and against enforcement must be held accountable at the ballot box for the consequences of their choices. We will not cede our streets, our safety, or our sovereignty to ideology — enforcement is the only honest policy that protects citizens first.
In researching this story I could not locate an original long-form Breitbart article tied to the short clip, but I did find the video repostings and multiple ICE Houston releases showing that the field office has been actively conducting nighttime and public-safety-focused operations that target DWI offenders and other criminal aliens. The available official ICE reporting confirms the broader pattern of operations in Houston even if a discrete ICE press release about this exact two-person nighttime arrest was not found in public notices.
