The Guardian view on ICE and Renee Good’s killing: Trumpism’s brutal tactics don’t end with migrants |
In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going door to door seeking undocumented migrants and breaking car windows to drag people out. Last Wednesday an officer shot dead Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American citizen. Her killing is a tragedy for all who loved her, and most of all for the three children left motherless. It also marks her country’s crossing of a Rubicon.
Where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) once preferred to keep a low profile, it now seeks publicity and confrontation – pumped up on billions of dollars in funding, the aggression and brazenness of the administration and the licensing of bigotry.
While statistics show that violent and property crime rates have plunged since the 1990s, Mr Trump has conjured a threat of American carnage, and an enemy responsible: undocumented migrants........