Since the unfortunate killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, the story of her tragic death has gone into overdrive. Facts don’t matter. Anti-ICE hysterics are impervious to the fact that Good and her partner were specifically engaged in illegal activity, writes Mark Hemingway in The Federalist.

One can argue law enforcement should have behaved differently, but you cannot say Renee Good was an innocent bystander — she put herself in harm’s way. You can’t impede federal officers enforcing the law, let alone suddenly lurch toward them in a two-ton vehicle.

“Thirty years ago, things were different. A lot different,” Mr. Hemingway tells readers.

The Border Patrol would pick-up 20 illegal aliens just released from state prison. The prison officials would turn them over to the BP at the gates of the prison, they would go into federal custody, and they would be put through the deportation process. No release back into the community.

Today, blue states refuse to do this. They refuse to notify ICE of pending releases of state/local prisoners who are illegal alien criminals.

According to Gallup, writes Mr. Hemingway, President Joe Biden’s encouragement of mass illegal immigration was the most cited reason for his low approval rating.

Trump won the popular vote by promising tough immigration enforcement, loudly and often. And ICE is merely enforcing existing, democratically enacted laws. You don’t have a right to keep the federal government from enforcing federal laws, and it is within the power of local and state governments to make enforcing immigration law less contentious and violent.