Knowing the difference between ICE and Border Patrol is important.

Understand that ICE know who they are looking for. You can be unhappy about who they are being told to target, but it’s not random. In some cases the people may be the criminals they tout going after, but in many cases they are now going after non criminal “illegals” and Green Card holders.

I think this is important because I fear the lack of nuance may play poorly over time similar to the Defend the Police movement. We do want a way to deport actual criminals. This to large degree is a problem of bad objectives being set from the administration. And certainly there are Nazis and racists in their ranks that have no right to be running around with a badge of any type. In a working system they would be kicked out just like we expect of our police, even though they does not necessarily mean that we should have no police.

However, these are Border Patrol. They are a long way from the border, and have no set targets for deportation. So they are the ones harassing anyone who doesn’t “look or sound” American IE racial profiling. It is illegal what they are doing and I can only hope they one day justice will come and be much swifter than the last time we tried to hold such people to account.