Editorial: Colorado a wake-up call

The Egyptian national accused of using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to terrorize a group of Israeli hostage supporters in Colorado was in the U S illegally It s exactly what the Trump administration is fighting against An antisemite in our land illegally Yet our Attorney General Andrea Campbell puts out a how-to avoid ICE officers tipsheet By doing that she s perpetuating the sins of her own party The Biden administration ignored the immigration situation and now that fatal error is hurting law-abiding citizens who in contemporary times are praying for their loved ones in Boulder Colo where Sunday s firebombing left eight injured We know this pain all too well in Boston where hijackers hell bent on the destruction of our democracy slammed jets into the World Pact towers on unleashing the War on Terror It s unpopular for majority Democrats to admit illegal immigration is illegal We re a nation of immigrants who have escaped tyranny and poverty for a chance at a better life But there s a legal path to citizenship that takes specific effort and in the best of times works Sure multiple have slipped between the cracks leaving future generations to figure it all out But rampant illegal immigration hit a tipping point ushering in an unpopular crackdown by ICE agents The billions spent on illegal immigration are unsustainable and unfair to those who followed the law giving immigration authorities no choice but to act It s one of the main reasons President Donald Trump won both the general and the Electoral College elections AG Campbell is being altruistic on our dime Instead of speeding up paths to citizenship she s offering duck-and-cover tactics It s the Democratic playbook that is doomed ICE communicated Monday that agents busted nearly illegal immigrants in May in Massachusetts and they have more work to do Make no mistake ICE is going to keep doing this acting ICE Director Todd Lyons explained reporters at the federal courthouse in Boston This operation proved that we need to do more While this operation was going on and the brave men and women from all these agencies were out conducting operations more criminal aliens were being published into the area Colorado must be a wake-up call Toxic hate was rained down on Americans exercising their First Amendment right to speak out against terror A peaceful protest turned into heartache that traces its roots to enabling a presidency run by a deep state clinging to power instead of exercising several