Tag: immigration enforcement
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ICE on Steroids: The New Face of Federal Violence
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift The New Normal of ICE Violence We’re all watching something dangerous take shape in real time. ICE is no longer acting like a federal law enforcement agency that has to follow professional rules or answer to the public. It’s behaving like a force that’s been given a…
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ICE’s Nationalistic Enforcement Culture Was Built Under Bush
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift The Bush Years ICE hasn’t really changed since it was created. The agency you see today is the same one that came into being in 2003, and it goes after its goals with the same fire it had back then. If you’re looking for a single thread…
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The Chicago Apartment Raid: A Full-Blown Paramilitary Incursion
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.” — Darrell Ballard, South Shore resident If someone had described a nighttime assault involving helicopters, drones, flashbangs, and chainsaws, with hundreds of masked agents storming a residential building, I’d have assumed it was a scene from Moscow…
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
← Back to Essays & Commentary Part 2 – When They Were Taken The shriek of tires. The clash of doors. The sound of lives shattering. It doesn’t always happen in the shadows. Sometimes it happens at school pickup. On the way home from work. While children draw sidewalk chalk hearts in the driveway. That’s…
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Trump: An Immigration Strategy of Cruelty
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift You know, when we talk about immigration, we have to be honest about what’s happening. Under Trump, the U.S. hasn’t just enforced immigration laws. It has deliberately made the process cruel. And that cruelty isn’t an accident; it’s the very method of enforcement. Policies have been designed…