ICE Agent Kills Woman, Mayors Shocked by 'Chaos'
Al Jazeera reports an ICE agent shot and killed a woman during an immigration raid in Minneapolis. Mayor Jacob Frey, in a stunning display of political amnesia, decried ICE's actions as 'reckless' and 'causing chaos.' This, from the same nation that has spent decades militarizing its border patrol and interior enforcement, effectively turning immigration agents into an internal paramilitary force.
The chaos isn't a bug; it appears to be a feature of a system designed to terrorize communities. (Recall the 'show of force' tactics, the no-knock raids championed by the very politicians who now clutch their pearls.) How many years of 'enhanced enforcement' and 'border security' budgets did it take for mayors to realize that giving guns and unchecked power to federal agents might lead to tragic,
violent outcomes—especially when those agents operate with a presumption of guilt against entire populations? One might wonder if the 'chaos' is only recognized when it spills onto their local police blotter, rather than staying neatly contained at the border or in designated 'troubled' neighborhoods.