There’s so much on my heart and mind to write about that it’s been difficult to focus on one topic as I prayed about this week’s Monday Morning Blog. As my daughter Kim said, “Mom, it seems like every day there’s something new they’re protesting about.” She’s right. Events are coming at us so quickly that we can barely process before another one happens.
The federal government’s actions focused on making America safer and greater, instantly result in antagonistic anti-American protests by groups of people brainwashed, trained, and paid to not just protest but to interfere with and impede anything President Donald Trump sanctions, even when it will make their own lives better and safer. TDS is a mental and spiritual illness that is literally getting people killed!
First amendment civil protesters allow themselves to be arrested in order to emphasize just how important their cause is to them. Generally, with minimal or no harm to police and bystanders. Today’s protests, particularly in so-called sanctuary states where local government and law enforcement won’t work with federal ICE agents, aren’t rational, logical, peaceful, or civil! They’re often violent and dangerous. That’s how you know they’re fueled by Satan the father of chaos, lies, and confusion. Yes, hypocritical insane dangerous protests like the following are criminal and satanic:
- Burning Tesla dealerships and keying Tesla cars that the Biden Administration and blue states like California were trying to force everyone to own. But when Tesla founder Elon Musk started finding graft and fraud in the swamp with DOGE, Democrats did an about-face and protested the very cars they had been promoting.
- Protests on college campuses against Israel and Jews while endorsing sadistic Hamas terrorists.
- Protesting the prevention of fentanyl coming into America that’s killing children and adults.
- Protesting the capture of a brutal dictator like Maduro who the Biden administration had put a bounty on for his arrest.
- Protesting making neighborhoods safer for themselves, their families, and neighbors. Impeding ICE from capturing criminals, monsters, violent gang members, terrorists, murderers, illegals, and child molesters who invaded our borders un-vetted under the Biden Administration and endanger every American.
The burning question: who is Satan using to finance these violent criminal protests with terrorist-like training and pay?
National Law Enforcement Appreciation
Did you know that Friday, January 9th was National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day? With all the news in Minnesota, tragically this day was severely neglected, and I didn’t see much appreciation. I barely saw anything about it on social media and heard nothing on the news. And yet, these men and women devote their very lives to saving and protecting our lives. National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day was established in 2015 by multiple organizations to publicly express gratitude for officers across the United States. One of the leading organizations behind the initiative is C.O.P.S – Concerns of Police Survivors. According to the group, it’s essential that officers know their demanding career path is recognized and valued by the people they serve.
Many of you know that my father, Officer Robert E. Reed, was a California Highway Patrolman killed with his own gun in the line of duty by someone he had pulled over for going the wrong way on the freeway. My father gave his life to save others, which is a possibility all law enforcement officers encounter every time they put on the uniform and go out the door to protect their fellow citizens.
In the case of ICE and Border Patrol Officers, they’re protecting you, me, our loved ones, and even the protesters and their families from people the Biden Administration indiscriminately let into our country knowing that many countries like Venezuela were opening their jails and prisons and letting out the worst of the worst to freely cross into our country. How does anyone think Tren de Aragua and MS13 gang members and other criminals with rap sheets in their own country got into our country? Most of them didn’t hop on a plane and pay their way to get here, they illegally were let into our country to terrorize and even kill our citizens.
The last administration refused to follow the border laws because they wanted to unjustly infiltrate in a voting base since they couldn’t get patriotic American citizens to vote for them and their ungodly policies. That’s why the Democrats and mainstream media are fighting so hard against the commonsense justice of deporting and/or arresting illegals many of whom have continued their crime and fraud sprees against innocent American families.
Well, we’re about to find out who is funding this domestic terrorism as Vice President JD Vance announced in a Press Conference last week, a new position in the Justice Department, an assistant attorney general. Hopefully, in addition to investigating fraud across the nation, they’ll also unveil bad actors training and paying American citizens in anti-ICE training centers to harass law enforcement officers by throwing rocks, bricks and ice, even Subway sandwiches at them. Using personal cars to block or ram into ICE vehicles and even ICE agents. Yell, spit, and hit officers, blow whistles, make noise when their trying to rest, dox and threaten their families.
Anti-ICE training centers remind me of Hamas and Islamists suicide bomb trainings. The indoctrination of Americans participating in this domestic terrorism brainwashing can be lethal, like the woman in Minnesota who instead of following law enforcement orders to get out of her car, was told by her lesbian partner to “drive baby drive” to get away aiming straight for the ICE agent in front of her. The partner was filming it all like she was making a documentary maybe to post on social media or send to the training center to prove they’d earned their pay! That’s my speculation, but even the partner was crying that it was her fault because she made Renee Good come to harass the ICE agents all morning, along with their dog in the car.
If you had asked them why they were protesting to protect criminals, while they were becoming criminals themselves, what would’ve been their answer? Maybe something like “This was what we were trained to do.” “I don’t know.” “I hate Trump!” Or as one protester told Laura Ingraham who asked why she wasn’t at work, “I’m getting paid here.”
What’s God’s Opinion About Lawlessness?
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but too bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” (Romans 13:1-4)
Traci Coston wrote on her Facebook page that lawlessness is the spirit of the antichrist and I agree. “Rules are not a terror to good conduct. When a government is acting in righteousness, and the people respect their authority, all will be well. I don’t panic when I pass a cop car if I’m going the speed limit. But we are seeing a generation of people whose hearts are far from God (the Minnesota woman was living a homosexual lifestyle), who are unable to tell right from wrong, rebel against authority because of their inability to perceive wickedness from righteousness. And this is just one, horribly sad, example of someone paying the price for that rebellion.” Traci Coston
The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing. Pr. 10:28
TRUTH CHECK: ICE Is Not “Attacking Communities.” They Are Enforcing the Law.
Janet Elaine Parks, who I encourage you to follow on Facebook because she presents factual researched commentary on current events that are good for us to know and share when hearing lies, propaganda, gaslighting, or misinformation. The following is from Parks’ Facebook post:
The media narrative around ICE has become emotionally charged and deliberately misleading…
You’ve heard the claims:
• “ICE is terrorizing communities”
• “ICE is targeting families”
• “ICE is acting like a rogue force”
“This administration is anti-immigration!”
You have even seen the most dramatic scenes of ICE attempting to do their job taking down individuals and of course, these scenes are shown and often published without the full context. But when you strip away the rhetoric and look at what ICE actually does, the picture is very different…
Let’s deal with facts…
WHAT ICE ACTUALLY IS …
ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is a federal law-enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security…
Its mission includes:
• enforcing immigration law
• targeting criminal networks
• removing individuals who violate federal immigration statutes
• combating human trafficking, drug trafficking, and transnational crime
ICE does not write immigration law.
ICE does not decide immigration policy.
ICE enforces laws passed by Congress.
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security – ICE Mission Statement (Established 2003; current mission reaffirmed in DHS public guidance, 2024–2026)
WHO ICE TARGETS (THIS MATTERS)
Contrary to media framing, ICE enforcement priorities historically focus on:
• individuals with final orders of removal
• repeat immigration violators
• individuals with criminal convictions
• gang members and transnational criminal affiliates
• those who ignore court hearings or violate release conditions
Even under administrations with broader enforcement, the majority of ICE removals involve people already flagged in the system.
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS) – Immigration Enforcement: ICE Removal Statistics Publications: 2019–2025
“ICE IS TERRORIZING COMMUNITIES”: WHAT THE DATA SHOWS
ICE arrests occur through:
• targeted operations
• warrants or administrative removal orders
• known addresses tied to individuals already in violation of law
ICE does not conduct random street sweeps.
ICE does not arrest people based on race.
ICE does not enforce state or local laws.
Claims of “indiscriminate raids” are not supported by arrest data.
Source: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) annual reports Publications: FY 2020–FY 2025
WHY COMMUNITIES FEEL “IMPACTED”
Here’s the uncomfortable truth the media avoids:
When immigration law is not enforced for years, enforcement later feels sudden …even when it’s lawful. The disruption isn’t caused by ICE. It’s caused by:
• years of non-enforcement
• mixed messaging from politicians
• false promises that laws wouldn’t be applied
• delayed court backlogs
Enforcing the law after ignoring it doesn’t create cruelty …it reveals policy failure.
Source: Department of Justice – Immigration Court Backlog Reports EOIR Statistics, 2022–2025
MEDIA FRAMING VS LEGAL REALITY
The media often uses emotional language like:
• “ICE stormed neighborhoods”
• “ICE ripped families apart”
• “ICE targeted communities”
But enforcement of federal law is not an “attack.”
It is the function of a sovereign nation.
Every country enforces borders.
Every country enforces residency laws.
Every country removes people who violate entry conditions.
The United States is not unique in this it is normal.
Source: OECD Migration Policy Reviews; DHS comparative border enforcement briefings. Publications: 2021–2024
COMPASSION AND LAW ARE NOT OPPOSITES
You can believe:
people deserve dignity
due process matters
families should be treated humanely
AND still believe:
laws must be enforced
court orders matter
borders are real
enforcement isn’t optional
Those positions are not contradictory …they are foundational to any lawful society.
FINAL TRUTH
ICE didn’t create the immigration crisis.
ICE didn’t write the law.
ICE didn’t make political promises it couldn’t keep.
ICE is enforcing statutes passed by Congress statutes that still exist whether the media likes them or not.
Calling law enforcement “evil” for doing its job isn’t justice. It’s deflection.
Faith. Family. Freedom.
I, Janet Thompson, would add that calling law enforcement “evil” for doing their job is deception and demonic! As Christians, we need to pray for all law enforcement officers and their families and praise God that there are men and women who are willing to sacrifice their comfort and even their life to uphold the laws of the land.
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A Word from Pastor Jack Hibbs
For Christmas, I asked for Jack Hibbs new devotional “Watching Waiting: A 40-Day End Times Devotional” because I do feel we’re in the end times. Here’s a quote from Day 8:
“In these days of deception, the need for discernment and steadfastness in the faith cannot be overstated. Believers must be vigilant against the subtle deceptions that permeate society guarding their hearts and minds with the truth of Scripture. By immersing themselves in the Word of God and deepening their relationship with Him, they can withstand the onslaught of falsehood and remain rooted in the unchanging truth of the Bible.
Know this: in these Last Days, you will see increased attacks on your thinking coming from deceiving spirits, invisible entities that will lie to you. Your only defense against spiritual deception is having Scripture embedded in your spirit. If you don’t know the Bible, you’re susceptible to deception. Remember, everything we read in Scripture has already been tested, tried, and attacked. Yet here we are reading statements made 2,000 years ago that fit perfectly with tomorrow’s news. This shows the timeless relevance of God’s Word.”
If you haven’t read last week’s Monday Morning Blog, now would be a good time. Here’s the link, Can I Have a Word with You in 2026!
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. 2 Tim. 3:1-5
I highly recommend reading this opinion article by David Marcus: Impeding Federal Law Enforcement is not protest, it’s just crime.
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