BBC Discovers ICE Shoots People, Forgetting Its Own History
The BBC's recent video highlights a deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, presenting the eyewitness accounts as a somber revelation. What's often overlooked, or conveniently forgotten by mainstream media, is that the very formation and function of agencies like ICE, and its predecessor INS, has been characterized by violence and unaccountability. From the Palmer Raids to the targeting of labor
organizers and civil rights activists, the history of immigration enforcement in the US is replete with extrajudicial violence and disregard for civil liberties. This isn't a bug; it's a feature of a system designed to terrorize and control. One might wonder if the BBC's selective amnesia on the historical violence perpetrated by US federal agents against marginalized communities is merely an
oversight, or a deliberate softening of the systemic brutality that continues to this day. How many more 'eyewitness accounts' of state-sanctioned violence do we need before acknowledging the institutional problem?