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By David Wallace-Wells

Opinion Writer

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have discharged their weapons at least 16 times since President Trump and Stephen Miller launched their mass intimidation and deportation campaign last summer. Renee Nicole Good, who died last Wednesday in Minneapolis, is not even the first of these victims to have been killed.

We have been told by the Trump right that these are officers of the law struggling to do their jobs in the face of unlawful disruption. But when Americans catch glimpses of ICE agents on social media, they are not typically in orderly pursuit of undocumented migrants. Quite a lot isn’t really immigration enforcement at all, but moments of escalatory panic and rage — chaotic episodes in which often masked agents scramble to intimidate, coerce and........

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