Newsweek Discovers ICE Agents Carry Guns, Sometimes Shoot Them
The Newsweek headline, 'Videos Show ICE Shooting in Minneapolis,' details an incident where agents fired upon protesters attempting to block an arrest. Naturally, the article focuses on the 'chaotic scenes' and 'investigation.' It's almost as if an agency created to enforce immigration law with paramilitary tactics wouldn't, you know, use paramilitary tactics. This isn't breaking news; it's a
feature, not a bug, of an organization that has received increasing budgets and decreasing oversight since its post-9/11 inception. When an agency's modus operandi involves snatching people from their communities and—as revealed in numerous reports—often uses force against unarmed individuals, should the outcome of an agent firing a weapon truly be treated as a surprising anomaly? Or is it perhaps
the predictable, if tragic, result of empowering a federal force that operates like an internal army, far less accountable than your local cops? One might wonder if the 'chaos' is merely the consequence of that design.