Others have
been beaten, shot, or disappeared into a bureaucracy designed to evade accountability. Much of this abuse was captured on video, broadcast across the country in near real time.
So what changed?
It wasn’t the kidnapping of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. He is a brown child. It wasn’t the
execution of Renee Good. She was a woman. She was a lesbian. It wasn’t the mass disappearances of Latino men carried off by masked agents, or the
killing of Keith Porter Jr. by an off-duty ICE agent. For this movement, Black and brown victims are easy to dismiss.
What changed is that Alex Pretti looked like them. He was white. He was male. He owned a gun. He worked as an ICU nurse helping veterans. He fit comfortably inside cultural boundaries conservatives instinctively protect.
That made him difficult to erase. Some right-wing influencers tried, frantically digging through his political donation history to label him a liberal—as if that were a revelation. It wasn’t. Trump began to
soften his rhetoric. That shift
does not reflect a moral awakening or a substantive change in policy. The administration’s xenophobic project remains fully intact. But Trump is clearly reacting to a loss of narrative control, scrambling to limit the political damage.
President Donald Trump’s authoritarian campaign to terrorize immigrants—designed and driven by Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller —has been defined by cruelty from the start.� Families ...
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Donald
Trump on Saturday unleashed a nearly 500-word missive on Truth Social, "instructing" Kristi Noem to back off of Dem cities "unless they ask us for help."
