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Welcome to The Logoff: Over the previous few weeks, ICE’s actions have gotten numerous consideration — and if you happen to step again, a disturbing image is beginning to emerge.
What’s taking place? Within the simply over two weeks since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, we have now seen the Trump administration:
Why does this matter? There’s a sample to the various, many particular person outrages perpetrated by ICE and different federal immigration brokers. As we wrote final week, what ICE is doing in Minneapolis already doesn’t appear like immigration enforcement a lot as a army occupation. However because it expands, and because the Justice Division is used to focus on peaceable protesters — and even Good’s widow — whereas refusing to research her killer, the extra apt comparability could also be a lawless safety state that’s feeling more and more emboldened.
A memo shared with the AP by a whistleblower this week, instructing ICE brokers that they’re allowed to enter houses with out a judicial warrant to hold out immigration arrests — seemingly in defiance of the Structure — provides additional credence to that picture.
What’s the massive image? We’re not there but, however within the unchecked federal energy on show in Minneapolis, the outlines of Trump’s nascent MAGA police state are coming into focus.
And with that, it’s time to log out…
It’s nearly time for the Winter Olympics — and if you happen to’re like me, meaning it’s time to begin getting up to the mark on sports activities and storylines that you just may not observe exterior of a four-year cycle. I’ve actually loved Kathryn Xu’s determine skating protection over at Defector, together with these nice items on Amber Glenn and the “Quad God” Ilia Malinin.
As all the time, thanks for studying, have an excellent night, and we’ll see you again right here tomorrow!