We Need A J6-Level Manhunt For Everyone Who Obstructs Immigration Law EnforcementBy: Joshua Monnington
January 09, 2026
The Trump administration must bring anti-ICE obstructionists to justice with the same tenacity and dedication Biden poured into the politically weaponized J6 prosecutions.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a female who drove her vehicle into him on Wednesday, anti-ICE sentiment has risen to a fever pitch, fueled by the legacy media and Democrat politicians. They have argued, essentially, that the shooting means America can no longer enforce its immigration laws. What the incident actually highlights is the need for a just and decisive crackdown on anti-ICE obstruction, a crackdown that parallels the Jan. 6 manhunt, not in its corrupt politicization, but in its scale and effectiveness.
The incident in Minneapolis marks nearly one year of the deportations Trump promised during his campaign. Despite a relentless legacy media air war on the removals, they maintain broad U.S. support, with 31 percent saying all illegal immigrants should be deported and 51 percent stating some should be deported. But even as the Trump administration ramped up deportation efforts, so did the sheer number of bad actors assaulting, impeding, harassing, and blocking ICE agents. The more serious attacks garnered the headlines: Antifa members allegedly launched an attack on an ICE facility; in Dallas an anti-ICE gunman opened fire on a law enforcement vehicle, killing two and injuring a third; the Department of Homeland Security reported roughly 100 vehicular attacks on agents in 2025.
But it’s arguable that the smaller acts of obstruction have had the greater negative effect, cultivating a growing perception that it was possible to obstruct or interfere with the enforcement of immigration law without facing consequences. Young men cavalierly chucked rocks at law enforcement vehicles; protesters with freshly ordered (and unironed) Mexican flags blockaded highways. Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn gleefully announced on Facebook that she and her “girl squad” were “bullying the ICE vehicles.” A government bureaucrat in D.C. heaved a hoagie at agents and walked free. Examples have been myriad and consequences, apparently, have been few.
Media outlets like the Los Angeles Times questioned DHS’s claims of increased attacks on ICE and smugly shrugged off incidents in which the obstruction was less aggressively violent or agents were not seriously injured, downplaying cases in which “officers sustained minor injuries such as bruising following a punch, kick or bite.” Unchecked aggressions inevitably lead, however, to greater numbers of aggressions and to aggressions that are more severe. Anyone with a basic understanding of human nature could have predicted that these unchecked anti-ICE aggressions would lead to escalated action on both sides. It was simply a matter of time.
This last point leads back to Minneapolis and the death of Renee Nicole Good. Some have presented Good as the victim of happenstance who, having dropped off her young child at school, was swept up in an active ICE operation. More details are sure to emerge, but this narrative contradicts testimony and video evidence. A nearby resident described Good as driving “the main car leading the protest,” adding that she “was very successful in blocking traffic.” The resident later appeared on CNN, opining that the shooting had not been in self-defense, while also noting that Good “was blocking traffic, so they couldn’t progress. And, she was totally peaceful.”
Video footage also shows a woman claiming to be Good’s spouse outside of Good’s vehicle filming the incident, an odd position for someone who is just traveling home from dropping a child off at school. Further, she reportedly stated, “I made her come down here; it’s my fault.”
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/09/we-need-a-j6-level-manhunt-for-everyone-who-obstructs-immigration-law-enforcement/
