Josh Siegel has been in office for 25 days as Lehigh County Executive. He has already made national waves and excited liberal activists by announcing that he was evicting ICE from county office space. Now look, anti-ICE sentiment is strong, but abolishing ICE is still not a majority position in America, despite ICE shooting citizens in the street. For that reason, I’d probably not advise a candidate to go full hard line on the issue in normal circumstances. However, in this case, Siegel has the upper hand.

Our Congressional turnip, Ryan Mackenzie, came out and attacked Siegel for his decision. It was incredibly weak. He tried to make the distinction that these are Homeland Security Investigators and don’t actually arrest people for ICE. That’s all well and good, if we want to be super cute on the language, but Mackenzie has a problem here- they haven’t paid their rent to the county for three years. Is Mackenzie okay with the federal government stiffing the people of his district? ICE/Homeland Security/Trump need to stop being deadbeats and pay their bills. Maybe Mackenzie should stop paying his mortgage for three years and see if he still owns a home. This guy is shilling for absolute deadbeat behavior. I guess he’s trying to find common ground with Crooksy?

This isn’t an ideological position, this is just common sense. Josh Siegel’s oath was to the people of Lehigh County, not some deadbeat running DHS or in the White House. Ryan Mackenzie swore an oath to the constitution himself, but he’s added an amendment to kiss “Dear Leaders” ass, even when he screws his community. Good for Josh for reminding Mackenzie that his home community has a voice too, and they’d like it if their government at least had the decency to make them whole.