A violent anti-ICE rioter who attacked federal law enforcement officers during last summer's chaos in Los Angeles County is finally getting his day of reckoning. Elpidio Reyna, 41, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury after hurling rocks through a Customs and Border Protection officer's car window.
This is exactly what justice looks like when you attack the men and women trying to enforce our immigration laws, Patriots. While the radical left was busy demonizing ICE agents as "fascists," thugs like Reyna were literally throwing rocks at federal officers just trying to do their jobs.
The guilty plea comes as President Trump's mass deportation operation kicks into high gear, sending a clear message to anyone thinking about interfering with federal immigration enforcement: mess with our officers, and you'll pay the price.
Leftist Violence Has Consequences
Reyna's case perfectly illustrates the dangerous anti-law enforcement rhetoric that poisoned our country during the Biden years. Remember when Democrats were calling to "abolish ICE" and treating immigration enforcement like some kind of human rights violation? This is where that twisted ideology leads – to violence against federal officers.
The injured CBP officer was simply doing the job American taxpayers pay him to do: protecting our borders and enforcing immigration law. But in the upside-down world of leftist activism, that makes him the villain while rock-throwing criminals like Reyna get treated as "freedom fighters."
Now Reyna faces serious federal prison time, and rightfully so. You can't assault federal officers with deadly weapons and expect to walk away with a slap on the wrist – not in Trump's America.
This case sends a powerful message as Trump's deportation machine gets rolling: anyone who interferes with ICE operations or attacks federal immigration officers will face the full force of the law. The days of coddling anti-ICE extremists are over.
How many more of these radical activists need to learn this lesson the hard way before they realize Americans are done tolerating attacks on our law enforcement officers?