Heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents acting like packs of wolves are terrorizing neighborhoods in Minnesota and all across the country. They are breaking into homes without warrants, snatching people off the street — including little children and American citizens — tossing tear gas at peaceful protesters and, in shocking incidents, killing individuals exercising their First Amendment rights to speak and assemble.
Noem, of course, is not alone in this. From the president on down, Trump administration officials have justified the extreme tactics. They have lied, lied and lied some more about pretty much everything. From their claim that only dangerous criminals are being targeted to their assertion that citizens gunned down by federal thugs are to blame for their own deaths, the mendacity has hit a monumental level of dissonance with reality. (In a turnaround, the president said Tuesday he supported an investigation into the shootings.)
By contrast, Washington’s Attorney General Nick Brown spoke with refreshing and direct language in a news conference with Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday. The state’s two top officials were announcing their plans to counter any dramatic uptick in ICE activity in this corner of the country. In his remarks, Brown gave no credence to the preposterous excuses and justifications that Noem, Trump and the rest are trying to sell to the American public.
“America is weaker because of the operations in Minnesota and real people all across this country are now traumatized, injured and dead because of the president’s fascist tendencies,” Brown said. “What we’re seeing right now coming from Washington, D.C., is motivated by hate and bias, and it’s guided by the whims of the president, not the facts, not the courts, and certainly not the United States Constitution.”
Brown is speaking truth to the unchecked power of Trump’s federal government. And so are the American citizens risking their lives out on the streets of Minneapolis.
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