{"id":2500983,"date":"2025-10-20T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemons-anti-ice-conspiracy-theories-are-endangering-the-lives-of-law-enforcement-officers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:14:49","slug":"don-lemons-anti-ice-conspiracy-theories-are-endangering-the-lives-of-law-enforcement-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemons-anti-ice-conspiracy-theories-are-endangering-the-lives-of-law-enforcement-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon&#8217;s Anti-ICE Conspiracy Theories Are Endangering the Lives of Law Enforcement Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-lemons-anti-ice-conspiracy-theories-are-endangering-the-lives-of-law-enforcement-officers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2500983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques Don Lemon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ruth-bader-biden-bill-maher-calls-for-joe-to-step-down-from-president-in-first-show-back\/\" title=\"Bill Maher urges Joe to resign as President on his return show, dubs him &#039;Ruth Bader Biden&#039;.\">recent comments urging<\/a> non-white individuals, including immigrants and those potentially targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to legally obtain firearms to defend themselves. lemon references the Second amendment, suggesting it was designed to protect citizens from unjust government actions like being taken away without due process. The author argues that Lemon misinterprets the Second Amendment, ignoring legal restrictions that prohibit undocumented immigrants from owning guns. The article highlights that advocating armed resistance against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sending-the-feds-to-quell-california-is-both-legal-and-necessary\/\" title=\"Sending The Feds To Quell California Is Both Legal And Necessary\u00a0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-sends-national-guard-to-stop-california-insurrection\/\" title=\"President Sends National Guard To Stop California Insurrection\">federal agents enforcing<\/a> immigration laws<\/a> is not only illegal but risky and misguided.It also points out Lemon&#8217;s history of controversial statements and suggests he may benefit from a better understanding of constitutional law. the piece condemns lemon&#8217;s rhetoric as irresponsible and legally unfounded.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That is the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Amendment<\/a>, in its entirety. There&rsquo;s nothing in there that says that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed if you cannot lawfully own a firearm. There&rsquo;s nothing in there that says that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed if you don&rsquo;t like immigration law and want to protect yourself from local or federal agents enforcing those laws. There&rsquo;s nothing in there that the right to keep and bear arms, so that you can commit illegal acts.<\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon, now a free-agent pundit after being dismissed from CNN and failing to gain traction as a host on X, doesn&rsquo;t seem to grasp that. In fact, he seems to be hell-bent on proving&nbsp;<em>why<\/em> he&rsquo;s a free agent in the world of well-remunerated punditry: because he&rsquo;s now basically telling illegal aliens and others who might be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to get guns to defend themselves from the people targeting them for lawbreaking. Which is breaking more laws.<\/p>\n<p>Some quality understanding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/second-amendment-victory-federal-court-overturns-post-office-gun-ban-dealing-massive-blow-liberal-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Amendment<\/a> there, Don.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Wajahat Ali&rsquo;s podcast in an episode published last week, Lemon made it clear that anyone who isn&rsquo;t white should consider buying themselves a gun &mdash; but not for lawful reasons, even if he couched it that way.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\"; 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        observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup(); let isSubbed=getCookie( 'ff_subbed' );  \/\/ Example usage if (isSubbed) {     console.log('User is subscribed, not running a player'); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='A') {     console.log('Running Aditude player for group A');     aditudePlayer(); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='B') {     console.log('Running Anyclip player for group B');     anyclipPlayer(); } else {     console.log('Running STN player for group C');     stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Black people, brown people of all stripes &mdash; whether you&rsquo;re an Indian-American or Mexican-American or whoever you are &mdash; go out in your place where you live and get a gun legally,&rdquo; Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Get a license to carry legally. Because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn&rsquo;t that what the Second Amendment was written for?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Go back and read what the Second Amendment says,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;And perhaps it will knock some sense in the head &mdash; in the heads of these people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lemon tells non-whites to get armed to fight ICE: &ldquo;Get a gun for when they go knockin on your door&rdquo; CC: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI?\">@FBI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wvJPJ7Bsb\">pic.twitter.com\/7wvJPJ7Bsb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1978909346726547783?\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear: Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-unhinged-don-lemon-attacks-husband-wildly-racist-hissy-fit-remember-cnn-paid-guy-journalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Lemon<\/a> has enough buyout cash from CNN to maintain a phalanx of attorneys, I&rsquo;m guessing, he made sure to couch this as all being entirely legal and on the up-and-up.<\/p>\n<p>A few seconds prior to where this clip began, Lemon said that people &ldquo;who are here legally and who can go and buy a gun legally and have a license to carry legally, go do it.&rdquo; Fine. But that doesn&rsquo;t precisely cover what he&rsquo;s talking about here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdMv5c0skXQ?si=BBKkHK7KdxMw4SBg&amp;start=358\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>What he&rsquo;s effectively doing is urging armed resistance to ICE under the pretext that they&rsquo;re effectively a tyrannical secret police who are taking citizens away and deporting them without due process. Extraordinary claims like that require extraordinary evidence, something that Lemon &mdash; spoiler alert, just in case you aren&rsquo;t familiar with Don Lemon&rsquo;s and his general perspicacity when formulating his justification for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >wink-wink-nudge-nudge rhetoric<\/a> like this &mdash; doesn&rsquo;t have.<\/p>\n<p>In case you need evidence for this, here&rsquo;s Lemon, on CNN hosting duty, speculating what might have happened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-back-government-approves-70-million-scramble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370<\/a> &mdash; while couching it in saying that this speculation might sound &ldquo;preposterous,&rdquo; but it&rsquo;s what people were talking about:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don Lemon entertained the notion that<br \/> Flight MH370 was swallowed by a Black Hole ..&#128514;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ORvAwdPXF\">pic.twitter.com\/1ORvAwdPXF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eud8eJYmNe\">https:\/\/t.co\/eud8eJYmNe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawyer4laws\/status\/1768258513116025230?\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And just as &ldquo;Lost&rdquo; was a fictional TV show, the idea of ICE coming to take away those who can lawfully own guns is farcical.<\/p>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 U.S.C. &sect; 922<\/a>, for instance, it is illegal for someone who is &ldquo;[a]n alien who is illegally or unlawfully in the United States; or &hellip; has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa&rdquo; to own a firearm. That would include &mdash; here&rsquo;s another spoiler for you, I&rsquo;m chock full of them today &mdash; virtually everyone who&rsquo;s being detained by ICE.<\/p>\n<p>If you are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-just-set-new-record-illegal-aliens-detained-one-time-american-history-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detained by ICE<\/a> and you are a legal citizen or can legally own a gun, guess what? It is also <em>still<\/em> not in your best interest to point it at federal officers, because due process does exist &mdash; as well as murder, manslaughter, and assault with a deadly weapon charges, which you will probably be hit with regardless of your legal status in this country if you point a gun and\/or shoot it at a federal agent. &ldquo;Don Lemon told me to do it&rdquo; does not work as a viable defense in court, either.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&rsquo;s argument, then, effectively boils down to this: Maybe if law enforcement agents think they&rsquo;re going to get murdered, they&rsquo;ll stop enforcing laws. He&rsquo;s not saying do anything illegal, mind you, he&rsquo;s just <em>saying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Even Jay Jones, the Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee who said he wouldn&rsquo;t mind shooting and killing the commonwealth&rsquo;s Republican House speaker and\/or his children on text messages, explicitly disavowed allegations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-jay-jones-comments-surface-suggested-police-officers-dying-fix-called-police-violence-according-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he made this argument about police officers<\/a> to put the fear of God into them. When you&rsquo;re openly making an argument Jay Jones won&rsquo;t even take responsibility for making in private, there are <em>problems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll give him this much, though: At least Don Lemon seems to realize he&rsquo;s unemployable in the real media sphere at this point. If the grift involves him going as radical as possible, grift he will &mdash; but he won&rsquo;t beg his way back onto the CNN or MSNBC\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oh-no-msnbc-missed-horrible-acronym-new-logo-look-like-utterly-humiliating-un-liberal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNOW<\/a> punditocracy by acting rational and suggesting people don&rsquo;t break the law while following the law, however.<\/p>\n<p>Given his downtime in his new self-employment role, perhaps he can enroll in a community college class on constitutional rights, so he can figure out exactly what the Second Amendment really allows you to do. Lord knows the man&rsquo;s got the bandwidth these days, and he&rsquo;s also sorely in need of something like that.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Nor does it protect using arms to resist immigration enforcement or commit illegal acts. Don Lemon, now an independent commentator after leaving CNN and struggling to find success elsewhere, seems unaware of this nuance. He has encouraged undocumented immigrants and others potentially targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arm themselves for protection-advice that itself breaks laws.<\/p>\n<p>On Wajahat Ali&#8217;s podcast last week, Lemon advised non-white individuals-including Indian-Americans and Mexican-Americans-to legally obtain guns and carry licenses because he believes ICE raids without due process justify such measures under the Second Amendment. However, his interpretation ignores legal restrictions on firearm ownership by many immigrants detained by ICE. Moreover, threatening or using guns against federal agents is illegal regardless of one&#8217;s status.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon appears to suggest that armed resistance might deter law enforcement from enforcing immigration laws-a dangerous notion lacking evidence. His past commentary shows a tendency toward unfounded speculation rather than sound legal understanding.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: The Second Amendment protects lawful gun ownership but does not sanction illegal possession or violent resistance against authorities enforcing immigration laws. 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