ICE Killing Prompts School Closure, Not Policy Rethink
Minneapolis Public Schools halted classes for the week, ostensibly due to 'inflamed anti-ICE protests' following a deadly shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Bloomberg frames this as a public safety concern, conveniently sidestepping the inconvenient truth: ICE deaths are not isolated misfortunes but a feature of an agency built on aggressive, often lethal, enforcement.
(One might wonder if they cancel schools when ICE raids don't result in killings, too.) The media portrays community outrage as the problem, rather than the violence that ignited it. This mirrors how 'protests' are often blamed for 'disruption,' while the actual 'disruption' of lives, families, and communities by ICE goes largely unexamined. The 'violence' Bloomberg highlights isn't just the
street's response, it's the violence inherent in an agency that has, across multiple administrations, consistently demonstrated a brutal indifference to human life, funded by your tax dollars.