Subject: The Worst of the Worst is Trump
"If these so-called immigration enforcement actions were really about nabbing “the worst of the worst,” as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s mendacious mantra goes, parents wouldn’t need to patrol outside their kids’ schools. But we see how this is playing out — American citizens, documented immigrants, and those undocumented but without criminal records are regularly getting snagged and brutalized because Trump wants to exert fascistic control through fear.

In a now-viral video, ChongLy Thao, a Hmong man who was born in Laos and is a naturalized American citizen, was marched out of his house in St. Paul on Sunday, surrounded by ICE and wearing only shorts and slippers in the bitter cold. He was later released.

“They just took me out there with no clothes on and then just covered me with my grandson’s blanket,” Thao told reporters on Monday. “I was like, ‘Man, this is, this is embarrassing.’ ”

Citizenship is not a shield. It doesn’t protect anyone from racial profiling, ICE, or the wretched administration that has emboldened them beyond the law.

Since Minnesota became the latest front in Trump’s war against America, I’ve stayed in touch with my nephew hoping that he and his girlfriend are doing as well as possible under impossible circumstances.

Even though I knew an ICE sighting — at the very least — would likely occur, his text message sent a jolt through my bones.

More than 1,400 miles away, I shook with anger and anxiety. But I can’t fathom what it’s like for them and everyone else in their apartment building — or on their block, in their neighborhood, in their city, and in their state — to live under siege from their own government. Far too many of us may soon find out." —Renée Graham, Boston Globe
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