from the there's-an-obvious-solution-here dept Raids and arrests around the nation by federal immigration officers all feature the same thing: a bunch of people in masks shoving people into unmarked vehicles. What’s happening under Trump during his second term doesn’t feel like America. And it certainly doesn’t look like America. Instead, it looks like the actions of paramilitary jump-out squads, roaming US streets looking for people to “disappear.” DHS and ICE officials have repeatedly tried to justify this level of person-by-person obfuscation as being essential to the safety of federal officers. But we all know what this is really about: protecting these officers from the consequences of their own actions. If safety was so paramount, the ICE officers sent to airports to… well, mainly just stand around… would have been wearing masks. But they weren’t. So the context (like detaining children or straight up murdering people on the streets) matters.…