By Wayne Allyn Root

No one on earth can question my loyalties. I’m a “ride or die” guy. I’m 110% behind President Trump for life. He is the greatest President of my lifetime.

I’m also 110% behind ICE and mass deportation. We either win this battle, or we lose America.

Open borders and mass illegal immigration are the Democrats’ official plan to destroy America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and the GOP. This plan is a combination of “Cloward-Piven” and “The Great Replacement.”

Along the way, this lawless, open borders, foreign invasion of America has bankrupted and ruined our healthcare system and our public school system.

It has added unimaginable levels of spending, deficit, and debt. It’s eating up the budget, it’s eating up welfare, food stamps and Medicaid.

It has led to a massive crime wave in every big city run by Democrats and filled with illegal aliens.

It has led to the murder, rape and robbery of thousands of precious, innocent, Americans each year- your daughters, sons, moms and dads.

It has filled our nation with lethal drugs- leading to the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of our citizens annually.

We have no choice. This battle is “ride or die.” We either win it, and make America great again…or lose it, and lose America forever.

That’s why PR, optics, and perception is everything. President Trump will never lose the 40% or so of Americans who identify as conservative MAGA patriots. He will never win over the 30% of Americans who identify as liberal.

That leaves the 30% in the middle.

At this moment, like it, or not, we have to admit we are losing the PR battle for those 30% in the middle.

It doesn’t matter whether we are right. It doesn’t matter if the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti was legally justified.

It doesn’t matter if the real parties to blame for his death are liberal politicians who are pushing riots and violence against ICE- Minnesota Governor Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey, and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison.

It doesn’t matter if this wasn’t a protest- but rather an organized, coordinated, communist color revolution riot, funded by enemies of America, built around hounding, harassing, intimidating, blocking and attacking ICE.

Still, the perception…the optics…and the PR are terrible.

ICE cannot be seen on video beating, shooting and killing American citizens. Or the American people will turn against ICE…and President Trump…and mass deportation. And that is what is happening right now.

I propose a SOLUTION…

This isn’t protest we are seeing. It’s anarchy, mixed with full scale insurrection. ICE should not be put in this untenable, unwinnable position.

Law enforcement cannot do their job while surrounded by screaming, cursing, whistle-blowing agitators. They can’t do their job while cars block them, surround them, or worse, threaten to run them over. They can’t do their job while violent rioters get in their face in the middle of an arrest.

And more of these protestors- whether they are misguided, or not- are going to get beaten, clubbed, shot and killed. That’s the kind of PR, optics and perception that will damage the Trump presidency, and the GOP midterms, and the mass deportation plan.

So, I propose we treat every ICE operation in Minneapolis (and in every other city moving forward) just like we treat the GOP and Democrat Conventions.

We allow free speech at presidential conventions, but we don’t allow it anywhere near the conventions. Protestors are allowed all the protest and free speech they want- but blocks away in designated “protest zones.”

Result? No death, no injuries, no beatings, no confrontations, no terrorism threat, no intimidation, no anarchy in the streets, no riots, no PR problems. And everyone is safe.

ICE has got to be able to conduct legal law enforcement operations unimpeded by protesters or violent rioters.

For the safety of ICE agents just doing their jobs…and yes, even for the safety of crazed, violent, mentally-deranged, liberal protesters…and for the safety of innocent bystanders…

We need designated “PROTEST ZONES”- just like the GOP and Democrat Conventions.

Everyone can protest all they want- they get their free speech. That’s what makes America great. But far away from dangerous ICE operations.

This is so simple. This is how we keep agitators away from ICE, and active ICE operations. And this is how we keep protestors and agitators safe and alive- which is what the American people want.

But here’s the caveat- to achieve this, ICE requires cooperation from local law enforcement. If they can’t, or won’t do it, in deep blue cities and states, then ICE must be accompanied by National Guard troops to both enforce these “Protest Zones,” and to encircle and protect ICE officers.

We can never again conduct ICE operations in any city while citizens are allowed to interfere, blockade with cars, get in the middle of arrests, surround, or intimidate ICE officers.

If not an official “PROTEST ZONE,” then simply have local police or National Guard encircle a few blocks in all directions around any ICE operation, so no protesters can ever again get close, and put lives in danger.

Now, if anyone dares to break that safe zone, all bets are off. And everyone will now understand these are bad guys, these are troublemakers, these are criminals.

They were warned. They were given options. Now we are free to arrest anyone who chooses to leave a safe zone. These are not protesters, but are clearly rioters, professional troublemakers, insurrectionists, or domestic terrorists.

I don’t care if there’s an official “protest zone.” I don’t care if it’s a mile away, or a few blocks away. Or just a sealed-off four block radius around any ICE operation, enforced by police or National Guard.

My point is- no angry or violent civilian protester or agitator ever again gets close to ICE officers, or active ICE operations.

And anyone who does, gets arrested. PERIOD.

Problem solved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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Spain’s entrenched leftist political class is once again moving to normalize illegality, this time through an extraordinary mass regularization that could grant legal status to more than 500,000 illegal immigrants.

The deal, announced Monday by far-left Podemos and the Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, represents one of the most sweeping amnesties in modern Spanish history, La Gaceta reports.

According to party sources and reports from Cadena SER, the measure will be approved by royal decree at Tuesday’s Council of Ministers. It bypasses ordinary parliamentary scrutiny and fast-tracks a policy that will undoubtedly have catastrophic, long-term demographic, economic, and security consequences.

Under the plan, illegal immigrants who can demonstrate as little as five months of residence in Spain will be eligible for legal status. The regularization applies regardless of how they entered the country or whether they previously violated immigration or labor laws.

The cutoff date for eligibility is December 31, 2025, meaning anyone already residing illegally in Spain before that date may qualify. Government estimates suggest more than half a million people could benefit, making this not an isolated humanitarian measure but a structural transformation of Spain’s migration policy.

Once an application is filed, existing expulsion orders for administrative violations or unauthorized work will be automatically suspended. When the application is accepted for processing, the applicant will receive a provisional residence permit allowing legal employment and access to public services, including healthcare.

In effect, the state is converting illegal presence into lawful residency with minimal requirements. Critics argue that this erases the distinction between legal and illegal migration and rewards those who ignored Spain’s immigration laws.

The regularization aligns with a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) supported by every parliamentary party except national-conservative VOX. Even the Popular Party (PP), which campaigns rhetorically on “orderly migration,” voted in favor of the initiative, leaving VOX as the sole institutional voice opposing the measure.

VOX has long warned that mass amnesties act as a powerful pull factor, encouraging further illegal immigration by signaling that enforcement will eventually be abandoned. From its perspective, the Sánchez government is institutionalizing the very “call effect” that has strained Spain’s borders, welfare system, and public security.

Party leaders argue that the policy shifts costs onto working Spaniards while absolving the state of its responsibility to enforce the law. Legal residents and citizens, they contend, will bear the burden through housing shortages, pressure on healthcare, and wage competition in already fragile labor markets.

VOX leader Santiago Abascal sharply condemned the Sánchez government’s decision to approve a large-scale regularization of illegal immigrants on Tuesday.

In a statement, Abascal said: “After 46 deaths, immediately after 46 fatalities from the corruption of this Government, Sánchez announces the regularization process of half a million illegal immigrants. Corruption kills, we have been able to verify it. Sánchez’s mafia is directly involved in the horror and chaos of the railway network. And the invasion also kills. This half a million regularizations will call for another millions that will further aggravate the collapse of healthcare, housing and security.”

“We Spaniards have to react. At VOX we have already started contacts with our European allies to launch all possible initiatives against this new crime by Sánchez that frontally attacks sovereignty and coexistence. And we will also activate all legal avenues to try to prevent this new attack on the Spanish. But it’s difficult. The mafia acts without scruples, without respect for the law or the interests of Spaniards. Without respect for the lives of the Spanish. We have verified it. That is why we also support all the planned strikes and mobilizations coming soon, from those called in healthcare to those called by machinists. Sectors that are now also directly suffering the outrages of Pedro Sánchez,” he added.

“We would like to have more strength and thus be more effective. But we only have the strength that you give us. Of course, you can be completely sure that we are going to use it in its entirety to denounce that corruption kills and that invasion also kills. And to put this guilty mafia in prison.”

The use of a royal decree has further inflamed criticism. Rather than engaging in a national debate on immigration, the government is pushing through a decision of historic magnitude via executive fiat, insulating itself from public accountability.

VOX has positioned itself as the only party willing to challenge this consensus head-on. Its rejection of the ILP and the government’s decree reflects a broader demand for border enforcement, deportations of illegal entrants, and an end to policies that incentivize lawbreaking.

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Alex Pretti, the armed anti-ICE agitator who was fatally shot by a DHS agent over the weekend, was known to federal law enforcement.

According to CNN, Pretti broke a rib after getting tackled by agents as he attempted to impede an immigration operation just one week before his death.

37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti of South Minneapolis appeared to resist arrest and attack federal law enforcement agents before he was fatally shot over the weekend.

But this wasn’t his first brush with federal immigration officers.

Just one week before his death, Pretti impeded an ICE operation and got tackled by federal agents.

CNN’s report comes after it was revealed that Pretti’s parents reportedly told him not to do anything stupid before he impeded officers last weekend.

Excerpt from CNN:

Federal immigration officers have been collecting personal information about protesters and agitators in Minneapolis, sources told CNN – and had documented details about Alex Pretti before he was shot to death on Saturday.

It is unclear how Pretti first came to the attention of federal authorities, but sources told CNN that about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

Pretti was later given medication consistent with treating a broken rib, according to records reviewed by CNN.

More on this story from CNN’s Dana Bash:

BOMBSHELL: Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis protester had a prior run-in with ICE just a WEEK earlier. He obstructed an immigration op, got tackled by agents (broke his rib), but they released him on scene.

Fast forward: Confronts agents again, allegedly pulls a gun, gets… pic.twitter.com/kp491fMu1S

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) January 27, 2026

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One of the more disturbing things to come out of the radical left’s anti-ICE behavior is the realization of how many people who are tasked with protecting people during their most vulnerable and critical moments, healthcare workers, fantasize about harming those they disagree with politically.

The Gateway Pundit reported on two nurses, one from Ohio and a labor and delivery nurse from Florida, who publicly wished that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, pregnant with her second child, would suffer a traumatic birth injury.

On Sunday, another nurse posted on social media that he would let MAGA supporters suffer and refuse to perform any anesthesia on MAGA clients.

National Nurses United, a union of nursing professionals that claims over 225,000 members, announced a campaign to abolish ICE in tribute to Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse shot to death by CBP agents in Minneapolis on Saturday while interfering with an operation attempting the arrest of a criminal illegal alien.

Yet another healthcare worker has been exposed for vile threats against ICE as Libs of TikTok curates examples of the disturbing trend.

Melinda/Malinda, a healthcare worker in Virginia, shared a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with a temporary paralysis drug and spray poison on them.  She also encouraged women to seek out ICE agents for dates and then drug their food.

In one video, she states, “I thought of something good. I think it’s something weird. Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end. Have them full of saline or succinylcholine. You know, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.”

In another, she shared, “Okay, for today’s resistance tip, I vote…anybody got me Poison Ivy, Poison Oak in their yard? Get some of that up with gloves, obviously. Get it in some water, like a gallon of water. Get the Poison Ivy Oak water, and I’m going to put it into a water gun. Aim for faces, hands.”

Another suggested harm from non-medical personnel.

“Alright,  the single ladies where these ICE guys are going have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause for sure. Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. They’re an ICE agent? Bring some Ex-lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick. Nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them, get them off the street for the next day.”

“Highly easily deniable. You could get sick, too. ‘Won’t eat there again.’ I’m just saying, let’s get them where they eat. Somebody’s not going to be supporting these guys. Where’s the hotel where they eat? Who makes that breakfast? Let’s find them. You know? Let’s make their lives fu**ing miserable. I know we’re already trying to keep them awake all night. That’s good. Um. That’s good. Anything you can do to make the living conditions bad. Talk to the people who work at the places where they are. We’ll get some ideas. Dead fish somewhere in the room hidden. Just stay toxic.”

Watch:

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

At least one of her employers, VCU Health, responded to the controversy, announcing that she has been placed on leave while an investigation is ongoing.

VCU Health said in a statement, “We prioritize the health and safety of anyone who comes to us for care. We are aware of a series of videos that appear to have been posted by an individual confirmed to be an employee of our health system. The content of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not reflect the integrity or values of our health system. VCU Police are assisting with this investigation.”

“Per policy, while the investigation is underway, the individual is on administrative leave and will not be in our facilities or interacting with patients.”

We prioritize the health and safety of anyone who comes to us for care. https://t.co/jJE9jONCWT pic.twitter.com/G57wkdrsqo

— VCU Health (@VCUHealth) January 27, 2026

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