Homeland Security Targets Somalis Today, Praises Them Tomorrow
Mayor Carter correctly highlights the fear gripping his community as Trump threatens ICE deployment to target Somali migrants, many of them American citizens. What Bloomberg leaves out is the consistent, bipartisan use of immigration enforcement as a political cudgel, often overlooking the very communities it later claims to support abroad. This isn't just a Trump-era anomaly; the apparatus of
surveillance and control predates him, evolving to serve shifting political narratives. While the Mayor decries Trump's rhetoric as 'disgusting,' one might wonder if the same moral outrage extends to the Biden administration's own robust immigration enforcement, or its selective concern—and often weaponization—of similar communities in geopolitically convenient zones. The 'scary time' for migrants
seems less a partisan problem and more an entrenched feature of US foreign and domestic policy.