Grieving mothers scorch lawmaker after he pivots during hearing to attack 'MAGA Republicans'

"As a matter of fact, I've seen several islands sink"

Jen Heiling looked straight at Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who brilliantly said that an island could sink if  the population grew too large, and told the congressman that her 11-year-old and 16-year-old are still waiting for her son and their brother to come home.

Yes, Hank Johnson did say that during a March 25, 2010, House Armed Services Committee hearing.
While questioning Admiral Robert Willard (then commander of U.S. Pacific Command) about a proposed military buildup on Guam, specifically, relocating about 8,000 Marines and their families (roughly 25,000 additional people) to the island, which had a population of around 175,000–180,000 at the time, Johnson stated:

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."

He also referenced the island's narrow dimensions (about 7–12 miles wide at points) in the exchange. Admiral Willard responded dryly, "We don't anticipate that," before noting the population figures.

So it's obvious that Johnson is not the sharpest tool on the Christmas tree.

Anyway, an emotional House hearing on the human toll of sanctuary policies turned into a complete circus Thursday after Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson decided to dismiss the whole thing as a MAGA stunt and started whining about witness seating arrangements.

The congressional hearing, which featured families shattered by crimes committed by illegal immigrants, erupted into a tense confrontation when Johnson basically told the grieving mothers that their pain was no big deal compared to his favorite left-wing talking points.

Johnson drew fierce backlash from the mothers and from Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), after he appeared to wave off their tragedies and immediately pivoted to attacking "MAGA Republicans. 

"The fireworks happened during a hearing titled "The Human Toll of Sanctuary Policies." Johnson claimed the victims' families were part of a "Steve Miller-approved" stunt whose only goal was "stir[ring] up passion and prejudice against immigrants who are people of color."

After tossing out a few quick condolences to the families of those allegedly killed and critically injured by illegal immigrants, Johnson wasted no time steering the discussion toward what he really wanted to talk about. He said the committee should be holding hearings on the "human toll" of the "Trump MAGA tax cuts," Trump's foreign policy with Iran, or the "cover up of the Epstein files."

He then rattled off a list of violent crimes committed by White men and brought up the death of Renee Good, who was killed by federal authorities in January while protesting immigration enforcement.

"I'm not minimizing the tragedy that is before us today with you three women, but the other tragedies at the hands of non-immigrants are just as important," Johnson said.

He also accused the Republican majority of strategically "sandwich[ing]" a Democrat witness between the victims' families for "dramatic effect."

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, was having none of it. He called Johnson's tirade "one of the most disgusting testimonies I have ever heard" and laid the blame for these tragedies squarely at the feet of Democrat lawmakers who spent four years pushing open borders under the Biden administration.

But the most powerful response came from Jen Heiling, mother of 18-year-old Brady Heiling. Brady was killed along with his girlfriend, 18-year-old Hallie Helgeson, in 2025 when an illegal immigrant from Honduras allegedly drove the wrong way on I-90 while intoxicated and slammed into the teens' car.

"You can put me in whatever order, in whatever seat. My tragedy is never going to be OK," Heiling told Johnson. "Today's our day. Hear us. Leave your butts in your seat. I don't want to hear your butts."

She described how her 11-year-old and 16-year-old children are still waiting for their big brother to come home. Their garage stall remains empty because Brady's car is still being held as police evidence.

"We can't pick a headstone because that makes it too real. But you can sit here and tell us about what kind of hearing this should be," Heiling said. "Renee Good is not the same as angel families. She made a choice. ... Brady and Hallie didn't get a choice.  . . .  They were living [by] American laws . . . and they were stolen by somebody who doesn't care."

Patricia Fox, mother of Carissa Aspnes, who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant, followed up by directly addressing Johnson's race obsession."I don't know if anybody has noticed, but I am not White. I wake up Brown every day."

"I'm not sure what race has to do with any of this," Fox said. "There's four kids that we talked about today, and y'all can't seem to stay on topic for what, an hour of your time.

"Today, we're talking about sanctuary policies and how they have wrecked our families. Y'all come and y'all feed Carissa. You get her up from her bed using a crane, and then you tell me and lecture me what this hearing should be about."

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GA wants to prevent a "Renee Good" scenario and it will make Lib heads explode

Renee Good wasn’t some innocent bystander: she was a progressive left-wing activist who got shot in the face when she used her car to ram into an ICE agent on January 7. The city was embroiled in mayhem, with the liberal media and local Democrats fanning the flames of what arguably were calls for domestic terrorism. Good and others are known for following ICE vehicles around as they enforce immigration laws, disrupting their operations.

In Georgia, they’re trying to prevent that, prevent a ‘Renee Good’ situation, and liberals are likely going to go nuts over it (via Atlanta Journal-Constitution): Renee Good died last month in Minneapolis after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer shot her during an encounter while she was in her vehicle. Now, Republicans in Georgia are working to make it a felony to use a vehicle to obstruct police operations.

Supporters say the legislation, House Bill 1076, is rooted in a pattern of problems across the nation. But critics see it as a rash reaction that could hinder people’s right to protest.

People can already be charged with a felony in Georgia if they use a vehicle as a weapon that harms or kills someone. But the bill by state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart would go further by making any obstruction a felony, including by stationary vehicles.

Ehrhart says confrontations between police and drivers are dangerous to begin with, and her goal is to make the penalties so high that it prevents them from happening in the first place.

Look, the left loves to turn these incidents into martyr sagas faster than you can say "mostly peaceful protest." Renee Good wasn't just out for a leisurely drive that fateful January day in Minneapolis. She allegedly decided to weaponize her vehicle against a federal agent doing his job, and now the usual suspects are clutching pearls over accountability. Georgia Republicans, bless their pragmatic hearts, are looking at this mess and saying, "Not on our watch." House Bill 1076 is straightforward common sense: if you're going to block cops with your car, moving or parked like a stubborn mule, you're looking at felony charges. Up to five years and a hefty fine ought to get the message across without anyone needing to fire a shot.

The critics are already whining about how this might chill the sacred right to protest. Please. There's a big difference between holding a sign and turning your SUV into a battering ram. If the mere threat of real consequences stops one more would-be vehicular vigilante from escalating things to a deadly confrontation, then mission accomplished. Ehrhart gets it. These situations are inherently dangerous, and the best way to keep everyone safe is to crank the deterrence dial way up before someone ends up dead or in cuffs.

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The libs will scream "fascism" and "authoritarianism" because that's their default setting these days. But sane people understand that law enforcement shouldn't have to play dodgeball with cars just because some activist feels like channeling their inner Mad Max. Georgia is drawing a line in the sand here, and good for them. If that sends the outrage brigade into full meltdown mode, well, that's just the sound of progress.

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Gov. Walz chickens out and will work with Trump and Homan

Minnesota's gone full clown show, and finally, that giggling maniac and Elmer Fudd Lookalike Contest Winner, Tim Walz, has decided to play nice, agreeing to chat with Trump officials after Border Patrol shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday. Cue the predictable leftist meltdown, screaming "execution!" with zero proof, as usual. 

Meanwhile, some on our side jumped the gun claiming he was seconds from a mass shooting spree. Look, the guy was strapped at the protest, sure, but he didn't have his carry permit. Before you clutch your pearls, that's just a $25 fine in MN, not some felony strip-your-rights deal like domestic violence. And he also failed to carry any ID while remembering to carry an additional two loaded magazines for his weapon.

The whole thing turned into a messaging dumpster fire, so now Trump's riding in to mop it up, tapping Tom Homan as the go-to guy, probably not just for the state ops but to deal directly with Walz and sort this disaster. 

"The Governor made the case that we need impartial investigations of the Minneapolis shootings involving federal agents, and that we need to reduce the number of federal agents in Minnesota," his office wrote in a release.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both Minnesota residents and U.S. citizens, were fatally shot and killed by federal immigration officers in separate incidents in Minneapolis.

Trump agreed to talk to the Department of Homeland Security about ensuring the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is able to conduct an independent investigation, Walz' office said, and also agreed to look into either reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota or working with the state "in a more coordinated fashion on immigration enforcement regarding violent criminals."

Oh, so now you're all cooperation and "productive," Tim? 

For days you've been on a full-blown unhinged tirade against federal immigration officers, comparing it to the third day of Gettysburg, dropping not-so-subtle war-with-the-feds hints, and capping it off by equating your own state's descent into chaos (which you enabled) to Nazis hunting Anne Frank. It's deranged. You're deranged, Timmy. 

Screaming nonsense through a bullhorn while perched on a fence like a mental patient is not leadership; it's performance art for the asylum.

And surprise, your nonstop lies just got another American killed. But hey, maybe the real kicker is that leaked anti-ICE Signal chat blowing up over the weekend, courtesy of reporter Cam Higby. Turns out some top Minnesota Democrats, allegedly including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, were admins or dispatchers in a coordinated effort to track, obstruct, and interfere with ICE ops. Some might call that a how-to manual for domestic terrorism. 

Shocking, right? Not really, coming from this clown car.

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FBI serves subpoenas asking for records and communications, source says

The Department of Justice has dropped the subpoena hammer on some Minnesota Democrats who apparently thought obstructing ICE was just another day at the office. Grand jury subpoenas went out Tuesday to five state and local government outfits, including the Governor's Office, the Attorney General's office, and the Minneapolis Mayor's Office, in a federal probe into what sources describe as a possible conspiracy to mess with or straight-up obstruct federal immigration enforcement during ICE ops in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (and apparently endless sanctimony).

The FBI handled the deliveries, demanding records and communications. The DOJ, in classic fashion, had no comment, because hey, why spoil the surprise?

Late last week, Fox News got the scoop that federal prosecutors were eyeballing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly throwing sand in the gears of law enforcement. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't mince words when he chatted with Fox:

"When the governor or the mayor threaten our officers, when the mayor suggests that he's encouraging citizens to call 911 when they see ICE officers, that is very close to a federal crime," Blanche said.

Walz, never one to let a federal investigation pass without a dramatic pivot, immediately cried foul on X, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing the justice system."

"Two days ago, it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly," Walz wrote in an X post. "Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

Frey chimed in with his own brave stand on social media, vowing he "will not be intimidated.""This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis, local law enforcement, and residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our city," Frey wrote on X. "I will not be intimidated. My focus remains where it’s always been: keeping our city safe."

Sure, Jake. Because nothing says "keeping our city safe" like turning a blind eye—or worse—to federal officers doing their jobs while your rhetoric gets people whipped into a froth.

The White House wasn't having any of the chaos theater. After a mob of anti-ICE agitators reportedly barged into the Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday, right in the middle of services, no less, disrupting worship because they decided the pastor was secretly an ICE honcho, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson unloaded on Fox News Digital.

"There is no low these radical leftists won’t stoop to," Jackson said Monday morning. "Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have whipped these rioters into a frenzy and turned them loose to wreak havoc on Minneapolis."

"Frey and Walz should be ashamed for inciting such chaos, but the Trump Administration will continue enforcing the law," she added.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday that the DOJ was launching an investigation into the church disruption, zeroing in on potential federal civil rights violations for "these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshipers."George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on the legal side of things, breaking down the potential ramifications of the Justice Department’s look into the agitators who targeted that Minnesota church they thought housed an ICE official.

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All in all, it's another chapter in the ongoing saga of blue-state officials discovering that federal law doesn't come with a "sanctuary" opt-out clause. The subpoenas are out, the whining is predictable, and the left is once again shocked—shocked!—that there might be consequences for treating immigration enforcement like an optional suggestion. Stay tuned; this one's got legs. Or at least grand jury intrigue.

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Woman deftly removed from car by ICE after impeding enforcement ops in-- guess where

The dolt in the hat with sign obviously doesn't understand physics: light vs. heat

A video blowing up on social media shows ICE agents dragging a woman out of her vehicle after she allegedly used it to block a lawful enforcement operation Tuesday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This mess comes less than a week after Renee Good was fatally shot by agents when she tried the same stunt, interfering with operations and striking an ICE agent with her vehicle.

The driver (still unidentified) parked her car across multiple lanes, clearly trying to stop ICE vehicles during an anti-ICE protest. As agents moved in to clear protesters off the road, they approached her after she tried to wedge them between her car and another vehicle."Go, go, go, go," people yelled at the driver as agents surrounded the car.

Agents reached through the open window, unlocked the doors, grabbed her, and dragged her out.

She resisted hard as they pulled her from the vehicle, screaming that she had been "beaten up by police before" and that she was disabled. She claimed she was just trying to reach a doctor's office and that's why she hadn't moved her car.

Clinging to her open car door, she shouted to bystanders that she was an "autistic, disabled person." Agents pried her hands loose, pushed her against the vehicle, and slapped on the handcuffs.

Bystanders blew whistles and yelled "Stop," "That’s so f**ked up," and "All you do is hurt."A few minutes later, protesters and black-clad agitators swarmed ICE vehicles and started pounding on them. Agents had to hit back with pepper spray and pepper balls to disperse the crowd. Several people ended up on the ground in cuffs as officers restored order.

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Protesters kept calling the ICE agents "Nazi's," with one yelling, "You will pay for your crimes." ICE ERO Acting Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles said at least 60 protesters who had "impeded us or assaulted an officer" were arrested.

This Minneapolis clash shows the real danger federal immigration officers face doing their lawful jobs. Less than a week after Renee Good struck and injured an ICE agent with her vehicle (leading to the fatal outcome), agents are still dealing with nonstop defiance. Protesters keep putting themselves and officers in needless danger. The tragedy with Good should have been a wake-up call. Clearly, it wasn't.

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