"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."
"Since early January, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded its operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., federal officers have killed Renee Good, a white middle-class mother; menaced a pregnant immigration lawyer in her firm's parking lot; detained numerous U.S. citizens, including one who was dragged out of his house in his underwear; smashed in the windows of cars and detained their occupants, including a U.S. citizen who was on her way to a medical appointment at a traumatic brain injury center;"
"Confronted with a list like this a deluge like this we look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger. Good was in a relationship with a woman, and her partner, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn't your average white mother after all."
Federal immigration enforcement expanded operations in Minneapolis and St. Paul since early January, producing a pattern of lethal and terrorizing actions. Federal officers killed Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti and threatened a pregnant immigration lawyer, smashed car windows, detained U.S. citizens — including one dragged from his home in his underwear and a five-year-old — and set off grenades and tear gas near a car carrying six children. Officers swept an airport demanding papers and arrested more than a dozen workers. Racialized assumptions and attempts to rationalize the violence fail to account for the broad, indiscriminate nature of the threats.
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