Should Progressive Organizers Lean More on the Church?
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The story treats the anti-ICE protests as a question of organizing infrastructure, as if the main challenge is finding sturdier institutions to keep dissent going. That framing skips past a more basic issue: what exactly is being defended when the target is immigration enforcement itself. Conservatives are not allergic to peaceful protest, but we are wary of movements that normalize obstruction and disorder while casting the border as a moral afterthought.
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The anti-ICE protests—concentrated in Minneapolis—echo the mass mobilizations of 2020, and raise questions about what institutions and alliances make political dissent sustainable.
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The story treats the anti-ICE protests as a question of organizing infrastructure, as if the main challenge is finding sturdier institutions to keep dissent going. That framing skips past a more basic issue: what exactly is being defended when the target is immigration enforcement itself.
Conservatives are not allergic to peaceful protest, but we are wary of movements that normalize obstruction and disorder while casting the border as a moral afterthought. Churches should not be recruited as political engines to launder radical demands. They should be places that speak hard truths about responsibility, community, and the dignity of lawful citizenship.
A durable politics has to rest on rule of law, public trust, and orderly immigration. If activists want legitimacy, they should start by respecting the institutions that keep a country coherent, not co-opting them to weaken national sovereignty.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.