'Hundreds' More Agents Deployed to Minnesota, Not Palestine
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department's budget ballooned to $60.4 billion in 2024, is dispatching 'hundreds' of agents to Minnesota, per the Financial Times. The reason? Widespread protests after an ICE officer killed a woman. Meanwhile, the very federal government sending these agents continues to approve billions in military aid to an Israeli government whose actions
have led to the documented deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, including women and children, in Gaza. One might wonder where this 'homeland security' concern is when it comes to the collateral damage of US-funded munitions abroad. The Biden administration, for instance, approved a new package of military aid to Israel in March 2024, including F-35 fighter jets and bombs, just weeks after the
International Court of Justice ordered provisional measures in a genocide case against Israel. (Source: Al Jazeera, March 29, 2024; OpenSecrets.org data shows AIPAC spending $10.6 million in lobbying the same year). It appears 'order' is selectively enforced, depending on whose interests — and whose lobbyists — are involved.