Anti-cop, anti-ICE violence. By Athena Thorne at PJ Media.

Life is different for the families of law enforcement officers. Sure, you worry about your loved one when he or she is on the job, but the threat doesn’t end simply because the workday is over. Vengeful sociopaths and obsessive crazy people don’t stop hating when the shift ends.

On more than one occasion, when we took our young children out, my husband would quietly utter the codeword — “client” — and I knew to keep walking up the street with the kids as if we had nothing to do with him. When we went to a restaurant, I always noted where the back door was for those occasions I had to hustle the kids out to the car and leave my husband to settle the bill and meet us, because someone who wished him ill had come in. The last thing we wanted was for a criminal enemy to take note of our faces.

And then there were the magical years of the George Floyd movement, when my husband would call out of the blue some days, just to check I knew where the pistol was. That meant there was new intel that activists were ratcheting up their anti-cop pressure campaign by targeting cops’ homes.

And this is just what normal, garden-variety cops and their families deal with. Now multiply that by the intense funding and activism of the international organizations inundating Western countries with third-world foreigners to destabilize and destroy them. Finally, imagine all that militant hate, force, and resources brought to bear on a handful of individual people who happen to be patriotic immigration officers.

Now you understand why U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other federal immigration law enforcement agents hide their identities when they’re working. …

Intimidating officers from doing their jobs with the unspoken threat that one of the left’s unstable assassins will follow them home is part and parcel of its action plan to suppress enforcement of duly passed laws and fill the country with culturally dissonant illegal immigrants.

Naturally the left is on the side of the immigrants, against deportation, and encourages violence against ICE officers and cops: