No Warrant? No Latte!

 The irony of the pro-ICE crowd is thick enough to choke on, like the exhaust of leaded gasoline from a muscle car. For years, we were lectured on the sanctity of “expressive conduct.”  We were told that a business owner’s conscience was a sacred space - untouchable, inviolable, and beyond the reach of government regulation.

 The Supreme Court’s rulings - Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis - were celebrated as modern-day Magna Cartas. They were hailed as victories for the “principled” baker and the “conscientious” web designer when gay, religious, and ethnic minorities were the ones being turned away. The logic was simple and absolute: if a business is an extension of personal expression, the state cannot compel its owner to participate in a message they reject.

 Fast-forward to the present chaos called "America", and the logic hasn’t changed - only the targets have.

 As ICE agents and other federal immigration enforcement officers turn neighborhoods into tactical playgrounds - smashing windows, flooding streets with armored vehicles, dragging families from their homes, and taking children as young as two and sending them to Texas holding cells - local business owners have begun exercising those same “deeply held beliefs.” At the same time, federal agents have executed American citizens in Minneapolis during immigration operations, the same people who once toasted religious exemptions now bristle at a café refusing service to an ICE raid participant.

 And why wouldn’t it be consistent? If a web designer cannot be compelled to celebrate a wedding, a barista cannot be compelled to provide caffeine for a deportation raid that ends with a child in detention or a neighbor gunned down on a city street. If baking a cake counts as expressive conduct, then serving coffee - or a craft IPA beer - to an armed agent mid-operation is an implicit endorsement of what that operation produces.

That’s the part the pro-ICE crowd can’t stand.

 The same people who popped champagne over “religious liberty” are now furious that Milton Friedman’s free market has decided to be genuinely free. In 2023, refusing service was “freedom.” Anyone who objected was told to go elsewhere. In 2026, those same refusals are suddenly “woke fascism,” “discrimination,” or “communism.”

 It’s a remarkable pivot.

 We now have loser influencers filming themselves at hotel desks and cafés, tearfully documenting their “persecution” when denied service - conveniently forgetting they spent years insisting businesses are not public utilities and owe no one accommodation. They built the legal framework to exclude others, and now they’re slamming into it headfirst with elbows up and IQs down...

This is the moment the legal shield became a mirror. They demanded a world where businesses could choose their message. What they didn’t anticipate was that some of those messages would be: No warrant? No Latte!

And it turns out they don’t like the reflection at all.