Some of our good friends on the left in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia simply want to eliminate law enforcement entirely. The city’s George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, has been twice elected, and I will be completely unsurprised if The Philadelphia Inquirer in general, and far-left columnist Will Bunch individually endorse Mr Krasner for re-nomination.

“Working Families Party” criminal justice organizer — whatever that title means! — Sergio Hyland, who had previously served 22 years for murder before being paroled in February of 2022, was just arrested for the early morning murder of Jasimane Ransom on July 11, 2024. When officers arrested Mr Hyland at his East Germantown home, they recovered three rifles, two handguns, and multiple rounds of ammunition inside. As a previously convicted felon, Mr Hyland was legally prohibited from possessing firearms. He was not a good guy.

Just eight days before his arrest, the Working Families Party issued a joint news release from Hyland and District Attorney Larry Krasner, announcing its endorsement of Krasner in his campaign for a third term as top prosecutor.

“We are proud to endorse him and support his unwavering commitment to transformative criminal justice reform,” Hyland said in the release on behalf of the progressive group. “His initiatives to end mass incarceration, eliminate cash bail for nonviolent offenses, and hold law enforcement accountable for bad actions resonate deeply with our mission to advocate for policies that promote equity and justice for all Pennsylvanians.”

Krasner said at the time that he was “honored to accept their endorsement.”

Well, of course the Working Families Party, and the convicted murderer Mr Hyland, endorsed Mr Krasner, because he doesn’t like putting criminals in jail.

And it seems that Mr Bunch doesn’t like punishing criminals, to the extent that he wants the federal law enforcement agency which enforces immigration laws disbanded!

Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right

The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police prove the current system is broken beyond repair.

by Will Bunch | May Day, May 1, 2025 | 1:47 PM EDT

Even after 100 days of nightly headlines about federal immigration cops gone wild — smashing car windows, descending on schools and courthouses, wrongly deporting dads, or donning masks and handcuffing stunned university students on the sidewalk — the latest story out of Oklahoma City is so shocking it might prove a tipping point.

There, a shell-shocked and weeping U.S. citizen and mom who only gave reporters her first name, Marisa, told journalists about the recent night when 20 federal agents raided her family’s new home, forced her and her two daughters out into a rain-soaked street in their underwear, ransacked the place and took all their electronics and cash.

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” the distraught Marisa told an Oklahoma City TV station, KFOR. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

The search warrant brandished by the agents sought someone else, who wasn’t at the home where Marisa and her daughters had moved a few weeks ago. As is often the case in 2025’s stepped-up immigration raids, it wasn’t exactly clear who the agents were or even which agency they worked for. Although initial news accounts attributed the operation to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, subsequent reports suggested the officers were from ICE’s sister agency, the little known Homeland Security Investigations. The 6,000-member HSI is a cornerstone of an ascendant secret police in America.

One would think that a reasonable man, concerned about a law enforcement agency acting aggressively, would be calling for some reforms within that agency, but no one ever called the distinguished Mr Bunch reasopnable.

Once upon a time, near the end of the 2010s — in a decade when political movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter powered ambitious dreams of a more progressive United States, at least for some — the first wave of Donald Trump-led abuses, including the forced separation of families at the southern border, sparked a brief rallying cry: Abolish ICE.

If ICE were abolished, then federal immigration laws could not be enforced at all . . . which is what Mr Bunch wants.

The fool from Philly decried the forced separation of families, when an illegal immigrant was marked for removal during the first Trump Administration, but he was also appalled when a couple of children, who were ‘anchor babies’ left the United States with their mothers when their illegal immigrant mothers were deported. He wrote, on March 15, 2018:

the pillars of their local communities who showed for a routine check-up and ended up in detention, the stepped-up raids, and all the arrests in courtrooms, outside schoolhouse doors, and behind churches — Americans are right to wonder if our out-of-control immigration cops have any limits at all.

Of course, Mr Bunch has complained, complained bitterly, when those he saw as breaking the law were not arrested, prosecuted, and thrown in jail . . . when those he wanted prosecuted were Donald Trump and his allies. It seems that the idiot at the Inky wants conservatives and Republicans locked up, but those who break our immigration laws given a free pass. Mr Bunch wants justice, justice against those actually enforcing our immigration laws, wants them tried for “crimes against humanity,” all for enforcing our duly passed immigration laws.

The left’s tactics are simple. They trumpet the cases which draw some sympathy, in an attempt to stop all enforcement of our immigration laws. The deportation of a homosexual male makeup artist, who is probably but not definitely linked with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, is supposed to pull our heartstrings, but whether he is, in fact, a gang member is irrelevant: he was still here illegally. Mr Bunch would have us stop deporting any gang members because one might not be that bad a guy.

Mr Bunch has said the quiet part out loud: their goal is to stop all deportations.