During Wednesday’s meeting of the Legislative Courts, Corrections, and Justice Committee (CCJ), state Rep. John Block (R-Alamogordo), founder and editor of the Piñon Post, condemned Democrats’ increasingly radical rhetoric, warning it is fueling violence against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. His comments came the same day a gunman in Dallas opened fire at an ICE facility with bullets inscribed “anti-ICE,” killing two migrants.
Block’s remarks followed CCJ Chairman Sen. Joseph Cervantes’ (D-Las Cruces) shocking comparison of ICE agents to the Ku Klux Klan. On Tuesday, Cervantes claimed: “When children are being put on planes and people are being taken in the night and people are raiding mobile home parks and they are doing it with masks and, you know, something we haven’t seen since the KKK days, right?”
By Wednesday, Cervantes attempted to soften his words, insisting he meant only to equate the act of ICE agents wearing masks with the Klan. Yet his clarification still drew outrage, since agents are forced to conceal their identities precisely because of leftist harassment, doxxing, and threats targeting them and their families.
Block pushed back forcefully. “We need to protect the people who are protecting us — the ICE agents who are doing their jobs — and I also think it is the prerogative of the chair, the vice-chair, and every member of this committee to tone down the rhetoric because it’s resulting… in people being hurt, people being doxxed, people being killed, harassed, and yes, assassinated.”
He added pointedly, “Maybe don’t correlate ICE agents to the KKK. Maybe don’t talk about these people who go every single day, put the badge on every single day to protect our country, maybe don’t talk about them as enemies.”
Block underscored the absurdity of the comparison: “The KKK was the first domestic terror organization in this country, targeting Black people, lynching people. I don’t see ICE agents doing that. They’re not. They’re doing their job to protect this country. And people who came to this country illegally did not do it correctly. They are being processed humanely and swiftly back to their home destinations.”
He concluded with a direct challenge to the committee: “It is the prerogative of this committee to stop the political rhetoric, to stop with the performative outrage. It starts right here, right now.”
Despite the call for civility, Democrats escalated the rhetoric. Rep. Eleanor Chávez (D-Albuquerque) dismissed the appeal outright: “Try to tone that down? I don’t think so.” She went further, declaring, “I’m gonna call it what it is. It’s fascism, and ICE is acting like the KKK. And we’ve got to stop our local police, our state police, we’ve got to stop those state employees who are collaborating with ICE. We’ve got to stop them.”
Following Chavez’s inflammatory comments, state Sen. Crystal Brantley (R-Elephant Butte) wrote via X, “NM Democrat just hours after a left wing psychopath attacks ICE office in TX, killing 3 detainees. Gasoline on fire.”
Chávez is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and visited the University of New Mexico student “encampment” supporting “Palestine.”
The phrase “ICE = KKK” was tagged on the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters this March when it was firebombed by a radicalized leftist, Jamison Wagner, who is charged with the politically motivated arson.
The exchange revealed a stark partisan divide: while Democrats equated federal law enforcement officers with America’s most notorious hate group, Republicans insisted that reckless rhetoric has real-world consequences — including violence against those tasked with enforcing the nation’s laws.
Chavez is proof the DNC has turned into rouge dimwitted polluted corrupted organization.
Republicans are for law and order, Democrats are on the side of criminals.
George Orwell was off by 50 years.
Orwell described what life would be like under a communist totalitarian regime, but he didn’t describe how it came into being.
We are seeing the prequel play out before our eyes.
Anyone with common sense knows that ICE is just doing their job.
So if Dem Politicians aren’t following common sense, they’re following a script. If there’s a script, there’s an author. If an author writes a script, they have an ending in mind.
The author seems to be George Soros, the end game is a totalitarian regime. If he ever achieves his goal, all of the useful idiots out rioting and causing violence will be gunned down in the streets by his enforcers and their bodies left rotting as a warning.
Soros has acted with impunity until now. But as of Monday of this week we finally have a tool to use against him, the designation of ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. That designation allows us to go after it’s funding and bring criminal charges against those funding ANTIFA. The penalty for funding a terrorist organization is 20 years in federal prison.
On Tuesday Trump spelled out the damage that open societies has caused to western nations and called on world leaders to put an end to policies that Soros has backed and funded.
Democrats keep saying they want to go after the root causes of crime instead of the individual criminal. It seems to me that the root cause is George Soros and Democrats, and it looks like Trump is taking a very comprehensive approach to putting an end to it.
They’re acting like demons because they’re losing their voter base!
yes these politicians are brain dead losers. but who is voting for them ? re-electing them ? accepting and financially supporting their messages of hate ? the democrat voter. thats who. completely lost souls. anyone that would vote for these creeps needs a mental health intervention.
If our elected ‘leaders’ would fight as hard for citizens as they do for illegals and the criminal element, it would be such a blessing. However, they don’t.The dems don’t want law and order and the safety of American citizens, they want illegals and criminals to run free all over the country. Please stop putting ALL the blame on voters. Take a look at our choices. There aren’t ANY honest, moral or qualified people running for office. All we can do is not vote for any of them but that doesn’t change the outcome of who gets elected. They win by default. God help us all here in NM the land of garbage and landfill trash.
I believe John’s posting above pretty much nails it perfectly.
The Democrat party is no longer a political party. It is the Cult of immorality, lies and deceit. Thank God they are destroying themselves. 🇺🇸🙏
Let’s not forget who actually created the KKK – the Democrat party. You’d think they, of all people, could tell the difference. But ever since then they’ve been accusing the Republicans of targeting blacks, when the Dems themselves are the ones keeping blacks in poverty and acting like fascists.
She needs to be reminded that the KKK was, and still is the instrument of the Democrat party!
Exactly Todd!
Hit the nail right on the head!!!!!!! Exactly Marcello.
When someone gets killed, like in Texas, because of rhetoric, there should be consequences. Guess there is no way to charge them with anything at this point.
Todd took the words right out of my mouth. Democrats were the kkk so Rep Chavez is either ignorant of the fact or is trying to pass more fake news. Maybe those of us who have respect for the law and don’t consider ourselves above the law should start filing treason charges against those who aid and abet illegals aka criminals who have broken our laws.
Thank you John Block for standing up to these delusional disgusting hate mongering people.
The Democrats are a party of hate and supports killings of children and citizen’s
Ignorant and stupid people mostly on the left, but some are on the right as well, you can see by their votes in the House and the Senate. You just can ‘t fix stupid. Also the fact is that they have so much hate in their hearts and are blinded by satan and his demons they do not care who it hurts.
Not sure how much of the constitution they know and understand. And for the record, we live in a REPUBLIC, of the people and by the people. Until NM citizens wake up and vote out these crazies, nothing is going to change.
She does know the KKK was a Democratic inventor??!
She does know the KKK was a Democratic invent??!
Each one of us must speak the truth in love to all those who are believing the lies of those spuing hate and division. We need to speak out calmly and with patience to those who are blindly following like sheep as they are being led over the cliff. Our state leaders don’t care about the people they represent otherwise the would stop this hateful rhetoric and start doing what we elected them to do, seek to improve our great state, in education, prosperity and safety.
Excellent summary John
That Eleanwhore Chavez is hideous inside and out. Guessing no plastic surgeon could fix that nose. She looks like Squidward wearing a toupee .
I know why people like this are in positions of influence
Apathy…we have the power to vote them out of office but lack the will
Thank you Robert.
To avoid any possibility of being confused with Mr. Block in the future, I will be posting as Supreme Chancellor.
I know NM already has a dictator, but I think it’s time for an honest dictator.
Thank you Mr. Block and Ms. Brantley for speaking truth to that pit of vipers! They are desperate, like a snake backed into a corner because nobody is buying the takeover of the Democrat Party by Socislists, Communists, Anarchists, Islamists, and trans terrorists. I support LGB, but the Ts and the psycho 1000 sexes and goofy pronouns need to go.
Maybe ICE should arrest/deport the hostile congresscritters. I’m sure they would enjoy North Korea in the winter
Joseph Cervantes represents a county with the third highest population in the state of NM. He has helped nurture and usher in violent crime, homelessness, off the chart educational failure. His only answer to this is we have all the laws on the books that we need. Who is supposed to solve the problems in society. His daughter is coming back “home ” to give back to her community by becoming a premiere abortion doctor. She says she is only following OB GYN ethics. So like all the rest of the socialists they change the subject and try to paint the opposition with the very aspects that their party gave birth to. Look up Robert Byrd of Virginia, Grand Dragon of the KKKl and esteemed Senator, lifelong Democrat. Democrat Chavez and Cervantes are now moving beyond mere cognitive dissonance but into racial, sexual rabble rousing.
virginia.
The demo in office do NOT care about failing schools, they send their kids to private schools out of state. They don’t care about crime-their teenagers, are NOT in NM. They are NOT affected. I believe they have bodyguards.Guess who pays for their protection? Not the illegals-they do NOT pay taxes.neither do the criminals the democrats protect. The Dem party today is NOT UR Grandpas or ur fathers party..