The tactics of the federal force, too, have grown more aggressive and indiscriminate. Armed officers have appeared at schools, daycares, churches and mosques. Masked agents are stopping residents at traffic lights, or on their walk to the grocery store, demanding – at gunpoint – that they prove their citizenship.
The agents are targeting not only undocumented immigrants, but also those with legal immigration status and valid visas, US citizens and tribal citizens. On Tuesday, a group of local law enforcement officers said even their agents were being pulled over, reporting that off-duty police officers of color had been stopped and questioned at gunpoint by the administration’s immigration force.
Maybe you’re used to it, but the world hasn’t felt normal to me for the last decade.
In your honor, tonight I’ll dream of jim bringing his gun to the white house to enact justice. Maybe he’ll make a pitstop in Minneapolis with a bullet for every one of the 3,000 ICE agents outnumbering our police five to one.