The chaos and bloodshed in Minneapolis, Minnesota is nothing short of tragedy. Not only because of the lives lost at the hands of federal agents, but because of what the heavy-handed immigration enforcement operations have revealed about the state of our nation.
No serious person disputes that under the current laws of our country, people in the country unlawfully can and will be removed. However, what we’re seeing in Minneapolis is not run-of-the-mill immigration enforcement activity.
It is grotesque political theater, fueled by vicious rhetoric about Somali immigrants in particular and carried out by militarized federal agents clearly in need of better training.
The political apparatus overseeing these operations give many Americans little reason to think otherwise and plenty of reason to strongly object.
In the run-up to what’s going on Minneapolis, President Donald Trump has outright smeared Somali migrants and Somali Americans as “garbage,” while top advisor Stephen Miller has slimed them as “pirates.” We have seen top federal officials defy common sense in their rush to smear Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both killed by federal agents under troubling circumstances, as “domestic terrorists.” We have seen the official social media accounts of the Department of Homeland Security calling for a mathematically absurd “100 million deportations.”
Is it any wonder tensions are high?
In light of the killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Pretti over the weekend, the biggest change from the administration has been the removal of Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino from Minnesota. In his place to lead efforts there will be the equally polarizing Tom Homan, who, according to reporting, was allegedly recorded by the FBI accepting a $50,000 bribe in the months before his appointment by the president as border tsar.
This is neither the work nor rhetoric of an administration that values the rule-of-law or of public trust in law enforcement. Unfortunately, this second Trump administration has proven to be even more reckless than the first.
In November 2024, this editorial board cautioned against the sort of militarized and heavy-handed approach to mass deportations we are seeing today, calling on Americans to recall our nation’s founding principles.
“Anyone who believes that only criminal aliens have reason to fear such an approach are forgetting why our nation’s Founding Fathers included myriad checks and balances in the Constitution, were so concerned about due-process rights and so intent on limiting the unilateral power of the federal executive branch,” we wrote, cautioning in particular against the Trump teams ongoing push to invoke the Insurrection Act. “American citizens — and non-criminal illegal immigrants — almost certainly will get caught up in any dragnets.”
Alas, what we’re seeing today is evidence of how far we’ve fallen from America’s founding ideals.
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Absent that, California’s congressional delegation must continue to push against the excesses of the Trump administration. They should push for better training for federal immigration agents. They must hold the administration accountable. Maybe one day some of California’s Republican delegation can help with that, too.
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