Two more people died in recent days encountering immigration authorities, which predictably means a renewed enthusiastic push by Democrats and the dying media to halt deportations altogether. The only acceptable message from the Trump administration is: Those who caused this mess don’t get a say in how to clean it up.

It’s not a good sign that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday reportedly instructed law enforcement to “cease all non-urgent vehicle stops” in relation to immigration enforcement. Any action that carries the whiff of a suggestion that the problem isn’t the nearly 20 million illegal aliens in this country — allowed in by Democrats — but rather the attempt to remove them is precisely the wrong signal.

At this stage, there is no “non-urgent” deportation, whether the subject is driving, walking, swimming, or floating in a hot air balloon. If he or she is in view of an ICE agent, there should be no pause in taking the individual into custody and processing his quick removal from the U.S. Anything else is weakness. Mullin is signaling weakness, and it reflects directly on President Trump.

That another two people were just killed while the administration tries to enforce immigration law isn’t a reason to stop. On Monday, 26-year-old Colombian man Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot in Biddeford, Maine, after he attempted to flee from a traffic stop executed by immigration authorities, according to ICE. The agency said that, “fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon” and Guerrero died. Similarly, in Houston last week, Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was also shot and killed during a traffic stop conducted by immigration law enforcement. ICE said in a statement that Araujo had “weaponized his vehicle” and that authorities shot him in an act of self-defense.

There have yet to surface any publicly available videos that clearly depict what happened in either case. But if events unfolded as they have in previous high-profile run-ins with ICE, then what likely took place was an attempt by law enforcement to execute a traffic stop, only to be met by a subject who attempts to flee, perhaps by flooring it in his vehicle.

It can’t be said enough. Attempting to evade law enforcement or resist arrest is dangerous and can prove deadly. Contrary to what Democrats and people on CNN and MS NOW like to say, it’s not a matter of just letting a criminal suspect escape so that no one gets hurt. If that were the case, authorities would only ever be able to detain those who comply. In any event, resisting arrest and attempting to flee is not a safety threat exclusive to the police and the suspects. It’s a danger to any innocent person who might be in the vicinity, including children walking home from school or trying to cross the street.

That any ICE agent is ever faced with the choice of either drawing his weapon to neutralize a potential threat or withdrawing in hopes that nobody gets hurt is the fault of Democrats (and even some pro-amnesty Republicans) who have instigated and exacerbated every immigration problem the administration was put in place to solve. Democrats, with no right, told every destitute foreigner south of Texas to make his way to the U.S. and stay indefinitely. Democrats have since fought tooth and nail to keep each and every one of them here, refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials and stirring up chaos in major cities to make it as difficult as possible for agents to do their jobs.

A majority of Americans said they wanted these people out of their country. If Democrats believed in elections, they would have respected that choice, but they don’t. So things have naturally turned violent. They can’t be allowed to hold this country hostage in that way. If violent deportations are what they’re forcing, so be it.

Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of "Traitors: The Democrat Party’s Collapse into Anti-American Filth."