It’s interesting to hear Democratic leaders and their allies in the media decrying President Trump‘s mobilization of the National Guard to protect ICE agents on the grounds that neither the governor nor the mayor of the state ever requested the Guard. This line of reasoning suggests that local or state approval to mobilize the Guard is some type of prerequisite.
Very, very interesting.
They must have missed the history class that taught about how, back in the 1960s, racist Governor George Wallace of Alabama proclaimed that he would stand in the doorway to block young Black students from entering a previously segregated school.
President John Kennedy mobilized the National Guard and sent them to that schoolhouse to escort the young students into the building. Would these lefties ever have suggested that Kennedy had no authority to mobilize the Guard simply because George Wallace didn’t ask them to come?
What nonsense.
Kennedy had the right to protect those young students, just as President Eisenhower did in Arkansas in the 50s (over the governor’s objection), just as Trump has the right to defend his federal ICE officers when the state governor and the local mayor look the other way as their voting bloc creates anarchy and chaos.