Thus spake the president.

When you really don’t have an agenda, the easiest way to get people to follow you is to create a common enemy from which you, and only you, can protect people.

And if there is no such enemy, tell lies about a group that is different in language, culture, dress, and religion, and ignore proven facts if necessary and cultivate hate.

The scarier you can make the specter, the better.

Just like Trump does.

The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  Thomas Homan, was proud to announce that the agency’s deportations of non-criminal undocumented immigrants had gone from “zero to 100” in the first six months of the Trump administration.

“The executive orders are clear. Anybody who reads the executive orders — no population is off the table. So non-criminals, yeah, those that have got a court order from a judge who refuse to leave, we’re looking for them. Those who enter the country illegally, I’ve said it a hundred times, that is a crime, to enter this country illegally.”

“Under the prior administration, non-criminals were not a priority, So when you go from zero to 100, of course you’re going to see the biggest rise in that.”

When asked about the possibility that an undocumented person with information about a crime might not come forward  to aid the police because they fear they might end up detained for deportation, he said,

“We’re not looking to arrest a victim of crime. We’re looking to arrest the bad guy. Right? Now, let me make this clear. Is there a population of illegal aliens that are off the table? I’m not saying that.”

He has also claimed that Sanctuary Cities invite criminals into their communities and protect them  so that criminals can have freedom to harass and commit crimes against innocent community members.

But, sanctuary cities actually simply refusing to use law enforcement resources to follow the immigration department’s detainer requests because to do so would be unconstitutional.

It is sad that when claiming to be supporting the law and the people of the United States, those who claim they are doing that have to lie to create an enemy.

If Homan stuck to the truth, he would have to accept his own agencies findings that:

• There are, on average, 35.5 fewer crimes committed per 10,000 people in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• Median household annual income is, on average, $4,353 higher in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• The poverty rate is 2.3 percent lower, on average, in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• Unemployment is, on average, 1.1 percent lower in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• While the results hold true across sanctuary jurisdictions, the sanctuary counties with the smallest populations see the most pronounced effects.

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But he prefers to keep Trump happy rather than stand up for the truth.

How safe is anyone with that?

A week after the state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that law enforcement does not have the legal authority to comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests, Massachusetts governor, Charlie Baker proposed a bill that would allow police and courts to hold people facing deportation orders in custody for extra time to allow them to be turned over to federal immigration officials.

Unlike the ICE man, however, Baker does not want to go after everyone,

“For years, many local police departments and the trial court have cooperated with ICE to ensure that they can detain violent and dangerous criminals, convicted of crimes like murder and rape, to keep our communities safe,” Baker said in a statement. “This bill allows the state police to honor specific detainers.”

But this will still have a chilling effect on those who could help reduce crime by reporting it and cooperating with local police if they have any information that would be helpful.

He, at least, says he wants to limit it those who commit violent crimes such as terrorism, street-gang activity or human trafficking, or has been convicted of a felony not directly related to immigration status.

But any foot in the door will be abused by the gung-ho crowd like the Bristol County sheriff who prefers scary campfire stories over studies.