ICE Comes to the Heartland
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After the government declares mission complete in Minneapolis, aggressive ICE occupation continues in small-town Minnesota

This gets dark, just as a fair warning. This is our government doing this to its own residents. I am less than thrilled.

Magdalena fought hard for her American dream. Now, it is dying on the side of a road near the Shakopee, Hy-Vee supermarket.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surround her car with handguns and rifles drawn. They are all wearing masks.

More agents swarm the car in front of her. It holds her two teenage daughters. They are both American citizens and on their way to school. An ICE agent starts banging on her windshield.

She doesn’t know what to do.

The agent with the rifle demands Magdalena’s papers.

“Roll down the fucking window!”

He stares her down.

Magdalena is frightened. All she can do is beg for her children.

“Let them go. They are citizens. Please.”

  • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM
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    16 days ago

    For so many months the actions of ICE have completely baffled me since I’ve never seen government officials behave this way. And then I watched a video by Max Fisher that explained all of it so well…better than any journalist so far.

    Max Fisher is a veteran journalist who has reported from over 20 countries. His show, The Bigger Picture, illuminates our world by exploring how it really works, from the sweep of geopolitics to the deepest recesses of our minds. Before going independent, Max was a staff writer at The Atlantic and The Washington Post, a founding editor of Vox, and a long-time foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His book, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, was an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.