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 !
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.
“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?????