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It may seem like a change in President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement, but it’s not quite that.
Perhaps it’s a suspension — hopefully a permanent one — of overkill. The word choice is intentional.
The shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens protesting enforcement operations in Minneapolis by federal agents was beyond outrageous, not to mention the mayhem faced by immigrants themselves.
Public opposition has been building, according to various polls, but it’s a shame it took killings to reach what may be a breaking point, even for some Republicans, about the violent swings the Trump administration is taking in the name of immigration enforcement.
The deaths and injustices seemed to have had an impact. So have the courts. Administration border czar Tom Homan said last week the surge in Minneapolis is ending, while National Guard troops have been pulled from some cities where they were deployed by Trump.
Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, has been emphasizing drug interdiction successes, as she did at the Read Entire Article
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