"The Washington Roundtable is joined by the journalist and historian Garrett Graff to trace how post-9/11 immigration policy, which led to a surge in Border Patrol hiring, set the stage for today's crisis in Minneapolis."
"The panel examines how ICE and C.B.P., created to protect Americans from outside threats, have been unleashed in America's cities as what Graff calls "a fascist secret police.""
""The Border Patrol has never been intended to be a force that is routinely interacting with American citizens," Graff says. "Full stop, period, let alone routinely patrolling American cities.""
Post-9/11 immigration policy produced a significant surge in Border Patrol hiring, greatly expanding federal enforcement capacity. ICE and CBP were created to protect against external threats, yet federal agents increasingly operate within American cities. Deployment of border enforcement personnel into urban environments has contributed to confrontations and governance challenges, exemplified by the crisis in Minneapolis. Border Patrol was not designed for routine interaction with American citizens, but officers now patrol and enforce domestically, raising concerns about appropriate roles, oversight, and the effects of militarized enforcement on urban communities.
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