Seattle’s progressive media has a troubling habit of giving megaphones to radical activist groups without telling the public just how extreme they really are. One of the worst offenders is KING 5, which recently treated the fringe, open-borders group La Resistencia as a legitimate stakeholder in the immigration debate, when in reality, the group wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), shut down all detention facilities, and end deportations altogether. Who cares what they have to say about deportations in the Puget Sound region?
But La Resistencia isn’t just some concerned grassroots immigrant group. This is a radical, extremist organization with a mission that goes far beyond helping detainees. By their own admission, they are working to “shut down the NWDC [Northwest Detention Center], and to end all detentions and deportations in Washington State.”
La Resistencia is a radical group and should be treated as such
La Resistencia doesn’t want a more humane immigration system. They want no immigration enforcement at all. And they actively fight to release all illegal immigrants from detention centers, no matter the crime they’ve committed.
“We oppose any kind of detention, physical or virtual… we can’t rely on the law alone to be able to win. But we continue using all tools available to pressure all elected officials at all levels to be accountable and fight to end the terror of immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation,” the group says online…