ICE Kills Unarmed Woman: 'Storm' Brews Over Trump's 'Deportations'
In Minneapolis, ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed woman, Guadalupe Canella-Enriquez, while attempting to apprehend her husband, Francisco Sontay-Jiminian. The Hill, in its infinite wisdom, focuses on the incident as igniting a 'storm over Trump deportations,' as if state-sanctioned violence against immigrants is a recent, partisan invention. They acknowledge immigration advocates link this
tragedy to 'aggressive immigration enforcement tactics,' but fail to connect these dots to decades of increasing militarization and expansion of agencies like ICE, a process accelerated by both Republican and Democratic administrations. One might wonder if this 'storm' would be brewing so loudly if the victim wasn't targeted under an administration the corporate press loves to hate. The systemic
dehumanization that leads to a law enforcement agency killing an unarmed woman during a 'targeted arrest' (her words, not ours) is more than a partisan optics problem. It's a fundamental crisis of unchecked power that predates any single president and continues under their successors, regardless of who occupies the White House. The 'storm' isn't just about Trump, it's about the machine itself. Why
bother with nuance when you can just blame the previous guy?