Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Since Donald Trump took office in 2025, ICE has murdered at least 34 people in the U.S. It has deported 623,900 people. Those are not negligible numbers. They are the beginning – mark that, the beginning – of the ethnic cleansing of America. They are the first shot across the bow of any contraption or conglomeration that might oppose shipping nonwhites out of country. There are 68 million Hispanics in the U.S., and it’s safe to say that Scharfuhrer Stephen Miller wants to deport them all. Will Trump’s henchmen limit their ambitions to Hispanics? I doubt it. They and what journalist Mark Ames on X so aptly dubbed their Vichy collaborators aim to deport all “Third World” – racist code – citizens, legal residents, green-card holders, asylum seekers or illegal migrants.

So far resistance to this wickedness has been disorganized. True, there have been weeks of protest over Trump’s immigration crackdown. And there have been protests over the murders of Minneapolis mother Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti: two particularly egregious slayings, as both were American citizens who’d done nothing to provoke being killed. Good was sitting behind the wheel of her car when shot twice in the face, while Pretti had moved to help a woman, assaulted by ICE, which later lied, claiming he had a gun in his hand. He did not. He held a phone. True he was armed, but legally so: Minnesota is an concealed-carry state.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “Unleash the ICE Gestapo” Noem described the Good incident as an attack on law enforcement. “I want to remind everybody that the act like we saw today, of using a vehicle to try to kill an officer…is something that every politician, every elected official, everyone in this country should be able to rally around and say that it is........

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