Meanwhile, fellow Progressivish Democrat Vyhovsky pushes anti-ICE bills in Vermont Senate
By Guy Page
Democrats in the Vermont Senate and the U.S. House this week are united in their fervent opposition to current federal enforcement of immigration law.
Rep. Becca Balint (D), Vermont’s sole Congressperson, gave an impassioned talk at a Tuesday press conference in the Cedar Creek Room of the Vermont State House.
One in-person observer described the scene for VDC: “ICE, ICE, ICE was the focus the whole time. Impeach Noem is on the table. Abolish ICE and do not fund them and people are scared and children including hers are fearful of the future.”
Balint said the Democrat caucus of the U.S. House was shaken to the core with the murder (her words) of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
In Washington, Progressivish Democrats likely Balint are the vocal minority. In Montpelier, Progressivish Democrats likely Tanya Vyhovsky are ramrodding anti-ICE legislation.
While no federal court is likely to allow Vermont law to restrict how ICE does its job, that hasn’t stopped Vyhovsky and like-minded senators from trying.
If they catch lightning in a bottle and actually influence the federal government, that’s great for them. But win or lose, leading the charge reaps a benefit in political organizing. The legislative process attracts, encourages, and organizes potential voters, campaign workers, and donors.
Balint won’t be a House member forever. Welch was a House member before he was elected senator. Balint could follow the same path. Balint was a state senator before she was elected to Congress. Vyhovsky is a senator from the most populous county in Vermont.
As reported by VDC last week, Vyhovsky has co-sponsored S.208 to unmask ICE agents is the lead sponsor on a bill to radically limit where and when they can detain suspected illegal immigrants (S.209). Judiciary Chair Nader Hashim (D-Windham) said Tuesday his committee will likely vote on the bills next week.
Friday, Vyhovsky showed she’s not done trying to tie ICE’s hands. She introduced S.302, which says a public agency shall not collect information regarding the immigration status of an individual, ‘unless the collection is for a specific and articulable purpose required by State or federal law.’
Would a friendly judge rule that immigration detention isn’t a ‘specific and articulate purpose’?
Clearly, Vyhovsky and others in the Senate would like the chance to find out.
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Murder is a specific legal term, and not something that should be used to render an opinion by an elected official. This carpetbagger Balint should be more careful about exposing her deficiency of intelligence…but I think many of us know better and are already convinced she is a fraud and a phony, and complicit with many of her fellow democrats in laying out the permission structure for the political violence of the left.
And the games she and
others play will be their downfall…
at this point they are spinning their wheels out of “fear”.
The million dollar puppet is doing the puppet masters bidding, right on que.
Becca Balint is just another example the of liberal, urban refugees who’s politics quite probably would not get them very far in their native states. Whether they come here purposely in search of the big fish in the small pond possibilities or not, that has been the outcome more often than not. We (IMO) need real Vermonters running for office in this state not the self righteous, carpet baggin’ ego driven d-bags we have “representing” us of late !
…wanting to be a big fish in a small pond, just like Brooklyn Bernie, and a significant percentage of our Vermont Legislators…
I know why she is only concerned with this one death, ICE was involved, and, like Scott, ignores the forty other people killed that day in the USA. I would say, “ what is she thinking”, but it would be an assumption on my part that she has something to think with.
I believe the proper P.C. term to describe our Congresswomen would be “of dimished mental capicity” .
I just took a break and looked up the Wikipedia definition of a brainless entity.
Let me guess Dan, there was a picture of SheMoe ? (B.B.)
Just threw away a Vanilla Ice CD called Ice Ice Baby. I didn’t want it taken away by force by SheMoe.
She’s a joy to the liberals that voted for her they and her need a COMPETENCY test, pass stay in, fail get out and sell pencils on a cold sidewalk. Most will fail, a lot lack the gray matter, very evident. Balint must make people in other states wonder about Vermont.
Where was Balint’s outrage over the murders committed by the unvetted illegal immigrants allowed into this country during the Biden years. Shame on her.
“fervent opposition to current federal enforcement of immigration law”. If it’s the law, and you don’t like it, change it. Until then, it should be enforced. Like the Democrats started ranting about Trump, no one is above the law. That certainly includes illegal aliens.
“children including hers are fearful of the future”, they should be afraid, of a Democrat future, where they’ll own nothing and most assuredly not be happy.
This is a quote from a Substack post my Gen. Michael Flynn: “The tactics being employed align closely with the organizing doctrine articulated by Saul Alinsky, which relies on pressure, ridicule, narrative inversion, and institutional coercion to extract concessions from power centers without ever engaging the stated issue itself. Alinsky was explicit that the issue is never the issue. The issue is power, and Minneapolis is being treated as terrain, not as a community to be stabilized.
The sequence is familiar. A triggering incident occurs. Facts are declared settled before investigations begin. Emotional framing replaces evidence. Institutions are pushed to violate their own rules in the name of compassion. When they comply, the violation becomes the precedent. When they resist, ridicule and escalation follow. The objective is leverage, and every concession extracted becomes proof of concept for the next demand. Each display of restraint by authorities is interpreted not as good faith but as weakness to be exploited. Compromise accelerates conflict rather than resolves it.” The entire article is excellent: https://genflynn.substack.com/p/minneapolis-exposed-the-weakness
Release the Epstein files and stop the bull… and then we will know the scrappy little dikes position on the pedophile Washington elite and is she covering up for them?????
1) Federal law preempts state law — that is basic jurisprudence, so it is embarrassing when state lawmakers ignore fundamentals. Clearly they are incompetent and wasting taxpayer money and valuable legislative time.
2) Do either of them have a plan to apprehend illegals convicted of violent crime, or do they remain hellbent on making Vermont a sanctuary state for pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and gang members who traffic in fentanyl and sex workers? Just look at the regular headlines.
3) Are they organizing for 2026 campaigns, or sticking their heads in a noose when Vermonters tire of this ideological charade that wastes money while creating more women and child victims?
There were 111 law enforcement officers killed in the United States in 2025.
https://nleomf.org/2025-year-end-officer-fatalities-report/
And Becca is concerned with one scum bag that on his third violence on his part encounter with law enforcement got himself killed and is trying like hell to turn him into the new George Floyd.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/28/video-shows-alex-pretti-confrontation-ice-agents-days-before-fatal-shooting/
These two stupid communist twits go against the agencies trying to rid us of about 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS that Joe Biden allowed to stream into the country, when they never say a word. Illegal aliens have committed 218 homicides since 2017.
From 2021 to 2024 in the Biden years, it spiked, 180 homicides.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics
The wolf has somehow convinced the sheep that the sheep dog is the dangerous one
and that he must be removed. I pray for the sheep when the sheep dog is gone that the sheep realize the wolf has them all to
Sorry, my bad, hit the send by mistake.
The wolf has somehow convinced the sheep that the sheep dog is the dangerous one
and that he must be removed. I pray for the sheep when the sheep dog is gone that the sheep realize the wolf has them all to himself. – Anonymous
is that the same alex pretti that is on that video spitting on officers and kicking out the taillight of the federal vehicle; who resisted arrest and came to the protest with a gun but not his id and no permit on his person as required by the permit; who did not tell officers he had a gun as required by minnesota concealed carry law; if it was that was not a very good example by a nurse
Neither of these ‘women’ said a word about the murder of Ashli Babbitt during a peaceful protest.
Born in Pennsylvania from parents that were born there, I was stopped by US Customs driving on Interstate 91 during the Obama Administration and asked if I was a US Citizen
Imagine, if you will, a group of protesters in the Cedar Creek room. When Rep. Balint starts speaking, the protesters take out their whistles and kazoos and make a racket loud enough so no one else can hear her speak. They are protesting what she is saying. Would these protesters be escorted out of the Capitol quickly by security? They were only exercising their God given right to protest under the U.S. Constitution.