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Radical left network MSNBC is facing pushback after one of its contributors suggested that illegal aliens might think ICE agents are "kidnappers" and, as a result, carry out what she called "justified violence" against them.
The contributor in question is Joyce Vance, who has an extensive legal career and joined host Ali Velshi, who suggested that illegal aliens are just being racially profiled and added, "Someone might exercise their lawful right of self-defense to protect themselves, thinking they’re being kidnapped."
Curtis Houck, managing editor of MRC NewsBusters, pointed out how concerning this is, in part because Vance is now a law professor. He said, "She is a law professor at the University of Alabama, so she is now teaching people in the legal world that this is okay."
Houck went on to point to this as yet another example of the radical left's push to mainstream violence, saying, "They can talk all they want about lowering the temperature, but when you talk about 'justified violence,' there's no way to wiggle your way out of that one. You're calling for violence."
He also expressed his concern with the fact that Vance was at one time a U.S. federal prosecutor, saying, "Someone with charging powers had this idiotic, harebrained view of the law."
This rhetoric from the left has already had a measurable effect on the rates of violence against law enforcement, which, according to data from the Trump administration, has risen over 800% since the president's mass deportation of illegal aliens began.