Ever since Donald J. Trump descended from a gold escalator at his eponymous Manhattan tower in 2015, he has sworn {that a} scorched-earth marketing campaign towards “unlawful immigrants” would make life safer for Individuals and that residents had nothing to fret about.
Effectively.
In 2025, Trump’s marketing campaign vow to focus on “the worst of the worst” was put aside within the title of not simply going in any case undocumented immigrants and limiting authorized migration however even the aim of remigration — the concept that immigrants of any standing ought to return to their dwelling international locations. Now, U.S. residents Keith Porter Jr., shot at a Northridge house advanced, and Renee Nicole Good, whose taking pictures sparked massive protests in Minneapolis, are useless.
ICE is about to storm American streets and neighborhoods with hundreds of recent recruits who obtained simply eight weeks of coaching as an alternative of what was 5 months. The Fourth Modification bans the federal government from subjecting Individuals from “unreasonable searches and seizures” but we now have a vice chairman promising that they’re forthcoming throughout the nation.
“I feel … we’re [going] to see these deportation numbers ramp up,” JD Vance advised Fox Information’ Jesse Watters, “as we get an increasing number of folks on-line working for ICE going from door-to-door.”
He repeated his boast the next day throughout a information convention whereas including that the killing of Good — shot whereas attempting to drive away from an agent who stood in entrance of her SUV throughout an immigration enforcement operation — was justified, including that the 37-year-old mom of three was “brainwashed” and “radicalized in a really, very unhappy method.”
The start of 2026 now exhibits even these in the USA legally are targets for the too usually Keystone Kops-like, keen beaver, set off completely satisfied federal immigration enforcement power I prefer to name la migra.
This isn’t something new, in fact. Since June, when ICE, Border Patrol and their sister companies used Los Angeles as a testing floor for what they’ve inflicted on the remainder of the nation, the federal government has handled residents who dare oppose mass-scale deportations — veterans, Democrats or Republicans, young and old, Latino and never — as an enemy of the “homeland.” Residents have had their entrance doorways blown out, been hit with pepper balls for praying exterior authorities services, been wrongfully charged with assaulting brokers, and have seen their identification papers dismissed as pretend and thus grounds for detainment.
With the Trump administration’s accelerated recruitment drive for immigration officers and rhetorical bloodlust, don’t be shocked if these masked Bizarro Barney Fifes knock in your door or demand to see your papers. The truth is, count on it.
The MAGA excuse for these caught up in la migra‘s crackdown — the way in which to remain out of hassle is by avoiding it — doesn’t work when the difficulty involves you.
That’s why evidently the deaths of Porter and Good within the final week, coupled with Vance’s authoritarian promise, appears to be waking up Individuals into resisting the deportation Leviathan like by no means earlier than.
A lady is taken into custody by Border Patrol brokers after she was accused of utilizing her car to dam their automobiles whereas they have been patrolling in a shopping mall in December in Niles, In poor health.
(Scott Olson / Getty Photos)
Anti-ICE protests are occurring throughout the nation this weekend. On social media, conservatives and libertarians who largely stayed silent on Trump all through 2025 are criticizing him over Good’s loss of life and his administration’s insults towards her. Trump’s approval score has slipped because the begin of his presidency, even amongst supporters — and ICE’s out-of-control conduct is turning into an even bigger and greater issue.
A YouGov ballot performed on the day of Good’s killing discovered 52% of Individuals surveyed don’t like how ICE is working, whereas the company’s approval score has gone from plus-16% to detrimental 14% in a yr. Whereas the ballot unsurprisingly splits on partisan strains — Democrats overwhelmingly oppose ICE, Republicans nonetheless assume they’re Trump’s Hardy Boys — the independents who delivered the 2024 election to Trump oppose ICE’s actions by a wholesome majority.
If he’s dropping the center, he’s dropping America.
Except, in fact, Trump goes full banana republic dictator and decides his regime isn’t leaving workplace — it doesn’t matter what. And actually, would you be shocked if this administration tried to make its moist dream a actuality?
Each motion wants martyrs, and if the deaths of Porter and Good show to Americans and everlasting residents as soon as and for all that they’re not secure from ICE, then their deaths weren’t in useless. That’s why the Trump administration and its lackeys are straining so arduous to slime Good’s title — as a result of they know the general public isn’t having its lies.
Their smears don’t have the identical impact they used to, fortunately. Simply take a look at what occurred not too long ago with Grok, Elon Musk’s AI creation on X.
You need to take what it digitally blurts out with a grain of salt — Grok as soon as began calling itself “MechaHitler” and spewed anti-semitic conspiracies after an replace that Musk swore “improved [it] considerably.”
However take into account what Grok did when the billionaire Trump enabler “tweeted” of Good: “She tried to run folks over.”
When requested whether or not it “would have licensed deadly compelled based mostly solely on this video proof” even Musk’s creation, even Grok, replied (whereas noting that “ICE claims differ”):
“Based mostly on descriptions from a number of sources… it exhibits the car shifting slowly back and forth with out clear proof of making an attempt to ram officers. Beneath goal requirements like [the Supreme Court decision] Graham v. Connor, which require an imminent risk for lethal power, I’d not authorize deadly power solely on this footage.”
I suppose even Grok is able to calling out Trumpworld’s BS when it “sees” what thousands and thousands of different folks throughout the U.S. have seen with their very own eyes.
