By David Wallace-Wells

The resistance looked immediately victorious and momentous: Last January, facing a kind of invasion by federal agents, the liberal citizens of Minneapolis stood their ground. They forced confrontation after confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers, eventually routing them from the city and bringing the mass deportation project of the president’s second term to what looked like a humiliating end.

The response was heroic, especially given the purposeful brutality of the campaign, called Operation Metro Surge, which resulted in the killing of two American citizens — and perhaps even more so, given everything we have since learned about the full scale of the surveillance and counterintelligence operation federal agents were running, in real time, against those organizing to stymie them.

The problem is, ICE didn’t really disappear when Operation Metro Surge........

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