The majority of anti-ICE activists are women, some young but many of them middle-aged. They’ve been called suburban moms, wine moms, and soccer moms. Many are affluent and drive shiny, boxy SUVs. These liberal women often have their small children in their vehicles; some even use the children as shields.
The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine noted for its celebration of everything left-wing, ran the following headline: “Affluent white women are among the biggest ICE opponents.” The article went on to state that a week after an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fatally shot a Minneapolis woman, a poll revealed that “half of American women are in favor of abolishing the law enforcement agency.”
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The rhetoric climbed to a higher pitch when the magazine reported, “They also come at a time when reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care have been significantly restricted and as funding for gender-based violence services and research centering women and LGBTQ+ people has been stripped.” Appeal to your audience, as they say.
The poll the magazine referenced sounds about right, especially when you examine current headlines about ICE protesters or watch news videos of them confronting ICE agents. Very often the first thing you see is a screaming white woman blowing a whistle or obstructing ICE officers.
Women clearly dominate the news when it comes to waging war on ICE.
Some headlines:
Mother Jones, early January 2026: “The women were seemingly attempting to interrupt immigration agents by taking up road space.”
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Some suburban moms bring their children to ICE protests to act as protective shields: “ICE won’t come near me if they see my twin toddlers. I’ll be able to block their vehicles any way I choose.”
As one Instagram post stated, “Children were sprayed with pepper spray by an immigration enforcement official.”
I grew up on the edges of Philadelphia’s Main Line, near the leafy enclaves of Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Gladwyne, and Villanova, an area once noted for its debutante balls, Social Register class. One thinks of the palatial 14-acre estate of Hope Montgomery Scott, Ardrossan, that inspired the 1940 film, The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn — where most women voted Republican, volunteered for the Devon Horse Show, or led food and charity drives for the disadvantaged.
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The “bluing” (or rotting) of the Main Line was a gradual process. That evolution in fact is still unfolding. Today, Philadelphia’s Main Line is a patchwork of blue radicalism where ex-debutantes, having trashed ancestral family alliances and political party affiliations for a Marxist new world order (blue jeans feminism sans the mink stole), now operate as social activists. They are helped along the way by local Episcopal and Presbyterian churches (all woke), or by participating in various resistance movements pushed by Quaker communities.
Philadelphia’s Main Line overwhelmingly voted for Harris and Walz in 2024. Whenever a Trump rally was held at that time, cars filled with progressive ladies — former fox hunt types — would honk and voice their angry displeasure.
What happened to women on Philadelphia’s Main Line is perhaps a microcosm for what has happened to women nationally.
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Wolf then adds, “The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE – who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men – because the conflict is a form of physical release for them.”
Dr. Carrie Gress, in her new book, Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t be Fused with Christianity, describes how feminism “has craftily and steadily captured the minds and hearts of women by mimicking aspects of Christianity.”
According to Gress, feminism has its own “commandments, virtues and evangelization” with its supreme sacrament being abortion. In that sense, “feminism has become an exceedingly powerful ‘megachurch.’”
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Self-entitled, privileged, and proud of their feminist identity, they prove George Orwell’s contention that “it was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
Everywhere in society, and especially when it comes to political protest, leftist women seem to be at the heart of the struggle with anxiety, depression, mental illness, and aggressive behavior. And since this group identifies less with traditional Christianity and more with radical politics, one can see in them a desperate grasping like a drowning person thrown overboard at sea, a panicked sense of trying to make order out of a disorder that happens when you attempt to — as Gress notes — “graft certain aspects of leftism into Christianity.”
These are sad, lost women “adrift in the culture and grasping for home.”
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