From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Grew to become a Paramilitary Drive
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The Washington Roundtable is joined by the journalist and historian Garrett Graff to hint how post-9/11 immigration coverage, which led to a surge in Border Patrol hiring, set the stage for at this time’s disaster in Minneapolis. The panel examines how ICE and C.B.P., created to guard Individuals from exterior threats, have been unleashed in America’s cities as what Graff calls “a fascist secret police.” “The Border Patrol has by no means been meant to be a pressure that’s routinely interacting with Americans,” Graff says. “Full cease, interval, not to mention routinely patrolling American cities.”
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