About a month ago, I found myself in the UK, strolling through Manchester’s downtown commercial district. Hours earlier, the district bustled with tourists, businessmen, and travelers. But at around 9:15 p.m., the streets were deserted save for a lone woman fleeing for her life in a full-length robe and headscarf. Closing the distance, a man pursued while shouting her name at the top of his lungs. He looked briefly in my direction before continuing his pursuit, unconcerned by the presence of a bystander witness. He shouted her name, commanding her repeatedly in a language I did not understand. In no time, he gripped her arm and screamed in her face.

For a few seconds, she continued resisting and protesting. According to the map, she was in the United Kingdom with all its human rights and protections. In reality, she had no rights. The crowd trailing the man helped drag her back to the home she fled. Words stuck in my throat. I realized I wasn’t in Kansas City anymore. The police, if they ever came, might not take the side of the woman. I might be accused of Islamophobia. I might miss my flight in the morning and my juvenile son had no way home without me. With shame, I submitted to the situation as meekly as she did.

On the way to the airport, I got an earful from my cab driver. Manchester, like many British cities had “no-go” zones that exclude English common law’s representative, the police. He recommended against my returning to Manchester for safety reasons.

A month later, a child of Rwandan immigrants broke into a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday camp in Southport and murdered three young girls, ages 6-9. In working class Britain and Ireland, officials hesitate to enforce laws against immigrants for fear of being accused of Islamophobia. Complaints are maligned and sometimes censored. In the United Kingdom, you can be arrested for observing that these newcomers often hurt people.

Nothing can excuse the appalling but predictable violence of the riots that followed. Protestors looted stores, threatened mosques, and set fire to occupied buildings. Unfortunately, instead of waking up to the need to address the grievances of their long-suffering citizens, the new Labor government of the UK has used this violence as a pretext to deflect.

The out-of-control immigration persists because the whole of the West has fallen under a brainwashing spell which has tossed out the cherished principle of equal justice under the law. Enforcing immigration laws draws accusations of racism and intolerance, which are words the left tosses about like shields for their incompetence and dereliction of duty. Police are expected to enforce the law, instead, along equity lines. The legacy of colonialism and a thousand other academic narratives are said to justify passive collective punishment.

After all, don’t British natives basically have it coming? We live in a world in which the opposite of racism is said to be … more racism. The British are powerless to even debate mass immigration into what have become their growing Sharia colonies.

In the United States, we can still reclaim the right to debate and vote on the wisdom of more immigration as a legitimate question of public policy. While the right has been reasonably clear on immigration policy, I find myself confused by the other.

The left tells us that Republicans have caused the current immigration crisis by failing to approve bipartisan immigration legislation. But if you ask a Harris supporter to explain what problem the immigration bill would have solved, the hoax quickly evaporates. Does Vice President Harris want to increase immigration, decrease immigration, or just increase the speed at which we process the immigrants into the country? The immigration bill proposed to add 100 new immigration judges, which suggests the goal is really to lubricate processing—in other words, to increase the speed of existing immigration. Why would we want that?

In the UK, the young man who hacked those three girls to death was not himself an immigrant, but his parents were. This suggests that with the overwhelming numbers of immigrants and the ideology now gripping the West, assimilation is not happening as the left likes to advertise when it is politically convenient to them. This crime and a thousand other outrages have accumulated to spark the English people to rise up and demand action. Some held up signs with pleas to “save our children.” In response, battalion-sized gangs of immigrant men roved the streets of London to crack the skulls of protestors who dared speak out. In the end, more Englishmen were attacked by immigrants instead of arresting those roving bands of thugs the police … arrested their countrymen for the crime of complaining.

Unfortunately for the woman I saw in Manchester and thousands of other victims—in both the UK and the United States—their suffering does not matter to the left. In bondage to the principles of “equity,” the people of the United States and the West owe a fictitious debt that can never be fully satisfied but must always be collected.

This spell of dangerous and malignant bigotry has already led to tribal violence. These are the wages of equity. It’s not racism to ask police to protect citizens from immigrant violence. All people, including that poor woman, deserve equal treatment before the law. Race does not disqualify anyone from the first duty of government which is to secure their safety.