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Only in Connecticut could Senate Democrats listen to a colleague say — out loud, into a microphone — that under state law, someone here illegally who is arrested for crimes like murder or kidnapping gets protected from ICE… and respond with, “Yes, we must defend this with our lives.” They didn’t blink. They didn’t hesitate. They marched up and voted to keep those protections like they were guarding the last lifeboat on the Titanic.

For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure of watching Hartford legislate itself into a sanctuary theme park, here’s the quick version. The Trust Act is Connecticut’s love letter to criminal illegal aliens — a law that tells state and local police not to help ICE unless the planets align, a judicial warrant is delivered by a pink unicorn, or the suspect is literally on a terrorism list. Under the Trust Act, even someone arrested for violent felonies gets treated like they’re checking out a library book, not sitting in a jail cell for kidnapping.

And just when you think Connecticut can’t possibly bend over any farther, along comes this week’s special-session “catch-all” monstrosity bill designed to make the Trust Act even softer, squishier, and more protective of criminals than it already was. The bill slams the door on state agencies sharing basic information — addresses, workplaces, schedules, anything useful — with federal immigration officials. In plain English, if ICE wants to find someone dangerous, Connecticut’s response is now, “LOL, good luck. Smiley Face Emoji”

It gets better. The bill creates new rules that turn courthouses into near–ICE-free zones, forcing agents to announce themselves, jump through hoops, and tiptoe around the Trust Act’s already-insane restrictions before they can even breathe in someone’s direction.

So while the rest of the country is trying to figure out how to keep violent offenders off the streets, Connecticut Democrats spent an entire special session figuring out how to keep ICE away from them.

If you’re here illegally and just got arrested for something horrific — murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, child porn, stealing a firearm — this bill is your golden ticket. If you’re a taxpaying Connecticut resident who thought your lawmakers might care more about your safety than your attacker’s immigration status, bless your heart.

Gubernatorial candidate Sen. Ryan Fazio (R-Greenwich) practically had to explain kindergarten-level public-safety logic to these people. He told them his amendment “would alter the Trust Act by eliminating the protections for illegal immigrants who are also arrested for Class A and B felonies.” Then he spelled it out even more plainly, saying Class A and B felonies “are things like murder and kidnapping and other very, very, the most serious crimes in our state.”

He even had to reassure the Senate this wasn’t some wild right-wing conspiracy. “It is just common sense. It’s not ideological, it’s not partisan. It belies common sense that we would maintain these protections.”

Democrats heard this, blinked once like confused cats, and voted to keep the protections anyway.

Rob Sampson (R-Wolcott) broke it down so simply even the most cerebrally challenged lawmaker could understand. “A yes vote protects Connecticut citizens, a no vote protects criminal aliens. Choose wisely.” Spoiler alert — Senate Democrats chose criminal aliens.

Sampson also asked the question that should be tattooed on every lawmaker’s forehead. “What is our job? What are we here for?” According to Democrats, the answer is keeping ICE as far away as humanly possible from anyone arrested for a violent crime. He even reminded them that voting no meant “shield[ing] criminal aliens, block[ing] ICE officials from doing their job, and mak[ing] the people of Connecticut far less safe.”

And they still voted no.

Fazio’s examples weren’t theoretical. He reminded the chamber about a West Haven father run over and killed by an illegal immigrant who, after serving his manslaughter sentence, walked right back out onto the streets “even though there was a detainer from federal immigration authorities… [because] under Connecticut’s 2019 Trust Act, that offender… was released into the streets and continued to be a danger.”

Democrats listened and still decided the real villains were the federal agents.

Then came Sen. Gary Winfield (D-New Haven) with the kind of argument that would get a teenager grounded. His entire objection boiled down to “we’ve done this before.” His exact words were, “We’ve had this conversation repeatedly in this building… It has been the policy that we have here… to have the Trust Act that we have. And I would urge folks to follow me in voting no.”

That was the whole pitch. We’ve already defended violent criminal illegal aliens before — so why stop now?

This is the mindset of a political ruling class in Connecticut that has fully detached from reality. They heard Fazio explain that state and local police “currently [are] banned from communicating with federal immigration authorities when there’s a detainer on someone who is arrested of crimes as significant as murder, kidnapping and other Class A and B felonies.” They heard Sampson warn that Democrats “continue, year after year, passing more and more laws that protect criminal aliens at the expense of law-abiding citizens.”

And they still lined up to vote for this insanity.

If you’re an illegal immigrant arrested for murder, kidnapping, burglary, identity theft, or even “possessing child pornography” — a crime Fazio noted Democrats explicitly protect under current law — congratulations, you are now one of the most privileged classes in Connecticut. If you’re a taxpaying resident, your government just told you to sit down, shut up, and do your best not to interfere with their grand social experiment.

And if Senate Democrats ever wonder why people keep packing U-Hauls and fleeing the state, they don’t need a study committee. They can just read their own quotes back to themselves. Of course, they won’t, because as Winfield made painfully clear, the guiding principle of the Connecticut Democratic Party isn’t safety, law, or sanity — it’s “follow me in voting no,” even when that means protecting violent criminals over the people they swore an oath to serve.

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