CHICAGO'S TRIBAL CONFLICTS.

Second City Cop asks, "Gang War on Tap?"  That's been an undercurrent in those mostly peaceful weekends.  "There is a tribal element to the city's ongoing gang warfare. It's unusual, though, for anyone to call attention in the way Englewood, South Shore, and Woodlawn residents are." Add Galewood to the mix.  "Let's turn to John Kass for that pessimistic perspective.  'Thanks to Biden’s Open Borders, in Dem Cities it’s Black vs. Brown.'"

Second City links, without elaboration or contradiction, to  "Chicago gangbangers rage against newly arrived Venezuelan migrants as Tren de Aragua moves in: ‘City is going to go up in flames’."

After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the criminal Tren de Aragua gang moving in.

But Muhammad, 53, who’s gone straight and runs a street patrol and violence prevention program called Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change says Venezuelan criminal gangs flooding shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for the struggling African-American community. He says they are furious at seeing government money going to what they call “non-citizens.”

“It is impossible to release gang members and criminals into our country through the borders and broken walls and infiltrate them in our community that’s already impoverished and broken,” Muhammad told The Post last week on the O Block, a stretch along South King Drive that’s considered the most dangerous in the city.

“When the black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames and there will be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it when the bloodshed hits the streets. It’ll be blacks against migrants.”

The article eventually gets to the same constituents against city government policies we saw previously in Woodlawn or Galewood. "Numerous residents on the gritty, run-down South Side interviewed by The Post during the course of a week, including young hard-core gang members the elder gangsters call 'the millennials,' said they’re angry and frustrated about being overlooked by city officials, who they say favor the migrants."  And, again, we get locals voicing complaints that sound a lot like Trumpian campaign rhetoric.

“There’s been a lot going on with (the migrant gangs) that nobody’s even hearing about,” Zacc Massie, 27, a street leader who first went to prison in 2015 and just recently got out.

“They be moving in our own territory and robbing people but they don’t get arrested like we do. I actually talked to one on the translator app. He told me all the things he got going on; how they helped him get a car, an apartment, (EBT) card, all this stuff. They giving them thousands, we get maybe $400 a month. And they don’t even have Social Security numbers! “

Black P Stone member Corey Rogers took The Post on a drive through the area and pointed out several locations where he said Venezuelan gangs have been “showing the flag,” meaning brandishing their guns. He also showed a reporter a gang Whatsapp thread with texts from gang members threatening turf wars with the Venezuelans.

Not to mention a political action committee.

Muhammad — who was once the enforcer for Larry Hoover, head of the Gangster Disciples street gang — formed a group called Ex-Cons for Trump because he feels the Democrats have failed inner-city black people for too long.

“It’s not so much Trump himself, it’s that the Democrats are selling us down the river,” he said. “The boujee (upwardly mobile) blacks might like Kamala Harris but she isn’t going to do anything for us.”

The Rev. Corey Brooks, 55, who established his New Beginnings Church and his outreach group Project Hood on the O Block more than 20 years ago, said his conservatism grew out of years of what he called failed Democratic policies and even being ignored for funding by Black Lives Matter when he tried to get donations for his new community center.

“Chicago is a blue city and Illinois is a blue state but people are starting to wake up,” Brooks told The Post last week at his church. “It’s not about the person, it’s about the policies. I’ve seen what’s happening with my own eyes when it comes to the migrant criminal gangs and it’s very concerning.”

Brooks got a firsthand glimpse when he found out about a young Venezuelan migrant who had to flee the apartment he shared with other migrants when they turned out to be a criminal gang a few months ago.

I repeat, because repeat I must, "Reality, though, has come up to bat in Galewood and Pilsen and Woodlawn, and we'll see what happens next."

And yet ... might the welfare state, in handing out those EBT cards, but not work permits, have given the sicarios a recruiting opportunity?

"We're still higgling over the same things, and I can't help but think that neither major party is getting the policy mix right. It does little good to treat the people who milk the cows and pack the cheese as criminals, nor does it do much good to treat those people only as future taxpayers."  That NBC report recognizes an opportunity for advocates of free minds and free markets, should they take it.  "As relative newcomers to the countries they’ve settled in, most Venezuelan migrants are unlikely to have become naturalized citizens, meaning they can’t yet vote. But many have found powerful platforms on social media to share their views."

Perhaps there's even an opportunity to reverse Illinois's experiment with soft-on-crime tax-and-spend Combine politics.  "Many of the 34,000-plus migrants who’ve arrived since August 2022 could qualify for work permits, but, with a long wait to get them, some cook, wash windows, sell candy for cash."  The article notes that many of those migrants are ... from Venezuela, and it's Bureaucratic Inertia, not animus from Donald Trump or the residents of Woodlawn, that's keeping work permits out of willing hands.

No end of interesting questions, and the verdict of future scholars might be that all the immigration reforms of the past hundred years have not turned out well.