"Thomas Ferro asked why there were no protests of the millions of deportations during Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's presidencies. Easy answer: Those removals were accomplished without militarizing our streets and snatching brown-skinned U.S. citizens, gardeners, Home Depot customers or anyone speaking with an accent; without teargassing or beating up innocent people and refusing pleas to look at ID; without snagging an immigrant as they comply with the law by showing up for their citizenship hearing."
"Letter writer Thomas Ferro asks why no protests when Barack Obama and Joe Biden deported millions of undocumented people, and the answer is simple. Only now are we witnessing masked agents, acting with impunity and using Gestapo tactics to terrorize citizens and noncitizens alike. Let's be honest, there would be no chaos or violence if ICE had not invaded Minneapolis. It is very telling that those ICE agents are not going into rough neighborhoods to arrest the "worst of the worst" and where they might encounter actual resistance."
Protests focus on ICE's aggressive, militarized tactics that have targeted citizens and immigrants alike, including masked agents, street militarization, teargassing, beatings, refusal to check IDs, and arrests during lawful proceedings. Previous large-scale deportations under earlier administrations did not employ such public, violent methods. Critics argue ICE operations now snatch ordinary people—gardeners, shoppers, citizens—creating fear and chaos, and avoiding dangerous neighborhoods where resistance might occur. Some observers contend these tactics serve political ends, normalizing military-style violence and potentially enabling broader power grabs or emergency measures that could undermine democratic processes and civil liberties.
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