"We'll Be Back"

The Border Patrol is leaving for the winter, but will return in full force after operations on the west coast:

• Fifty-six days have passed since U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino announced on social media, “Well, Chicago, we’ve arrived!”

  Since then, it’s been eight weeks of chaos and fear. Of downtown patrols and boat tours. Of tear gas and pepperballs, even while children played and pastors prayed. Of defiance and violence and a hunt for “the worst of the worst” and several use-of-force incidents that a judge said “shocks the conscience.”

  Now Bovino and many of his agents are expected to leave Chicago, signaling a downshift in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” That is, at least, while winter descends on the city. But the federal presence could return four-fold in the spring.

It's also been eight weeks of the media revealing themselves to be insurrectionists and traitors, supporting violence and excusing law breaking with assorted propaganda. They're barely covering this:

• Customs and Border Protection officials said Latin Kings street gang leaders have issued a “shoot on sight” order targeting agents involved in immigration operations in Chicago, NewsNation has learned.

  “Officer/agents are reminded to maintain heightened situational awareness and exercise extreme caution when conducting enforcement activities,” the agency’s internal warning said.

  News of the alert comes after shots were reportedly fired at federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation in the city’s Little Village neighborhood on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security says a group of people also threw a paint can and bricks at a Border Patrol vehicle.

There's a name for this sort of behavior and The Contrarian calls it out:

• The shots that rang out last week resemble those fired on Fort Sumter which started the Civil War

  The shooting has started. 

  A federal law enforcement source has now confirmed that a Chicagoan opened fire on federal officers. Whether this is the first volley or merely the latest escalation, it follows an obvious trajectory: When city leaders wink at lawlessness and when newspapers sanctify defiance, blood is the next headline.

  Our local press corps has abandoned skepticism for sermonizing. They’ve become propagandists — much like the newspapers of the South in the years before the Civil War — stirring emotion, arousing grievance, and normalizing rebellion against our own federal government. They no longer cover the news; they choreograph it.

If this is the new "normal," well.....good luck.