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Welcome to The Logoff: Tensions are rising in Minneapolis because the Trump administration continues its crackdown.
What’s taking place? There are some 3,000 Division of Homeland Safety brokers — each ICE and Customs and Border Safety, or CBP — in Minnesota this week, largely within the Minneapolis space. Because the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent eight days in the past, an enormous quantity of video and reporting has documented additional brutality by federal immigration brokers, usually indiscriminate and unprovoked, towards immigrants and Americans alike.
On Wednesday night time, a federal agent shot and injured a Venezuelan man after an alleged visitors cease, giving recent gasoline to protests. And on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Revolt Act and deploy troops to Minnesota, “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the regulation and cease the skilled agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
Why does this matter? For the second time in six years, Minnesota looks like a tinderbox. Officers within the state, together with Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, are urging calm and asking protesters to stay peaceable, nevertheless it more and more looks like this can be a struggle the Trump administration needs to choose. On Wednesday, senior Trump aide Stephen Miller described arresting “insurrectionists” in Minneapolis as a “nationwide safety precedence.”
What’s the context? ICE, which makes up nearly all of the brokers at present in Minneapolis, has grown considerably within the final yr, concurrently its requirements have dropped precipitously. On the similar time, underneath stress to make extra immigration arrests, they’re taking an more and more militarized strategy at odds with how ICE operated underneath earlier administrations. All of these components are on show proper now in Minneapolis.
What’s the large image? What’s taking place to Minneapolis residents already appears much less like immigration enforcement and extra like an occupation. If Trump follows by means of together with his Revolt Act risk, issues may develop far worse.
And with that, it’s time to sign off…
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