"... We’ve learned from the unsuccessful attempts to hold Trump responsible for January 6 and from the unwillingness of the federal government to prosecute ICE agents that our existing judicial branch simply is not cut out to deal with that level of lawlessness. We need something dedicated explicitly, and only, to these efforts.
"Truth and reconciliation also requires a commitment to institutional reforms and reparations. Whoever is in power on the other side of the Trump era can’t go back to business as usual, can’t leave something like ICE fully intact and hope that moderate reforms do the trick and get rid of the bad apples. The whole structure is rotten to the core.
"Reparations will be necessary as well.
Immigrant communities have been shattered. People have been deported, in
violation of court orders, to countries they never lived in and have no
connection to. The economic impact
on Minneapolis, the epicenter of Metro Surge, ran into the hundreds of
millions of dollars. Communities can’t simply pick themselves up by
their bootstraps and move on. Money has to be redistributed from the
bribe-fueled, corrupt government that Trump built, and given back to its
victims..." -- Lisa Needham, in the "Public Notice" Substack, on "Justice for ICE’s victims requires truth and reconciliation." ICE's deportation depredations have continued at warp speed with a lower profile but with just as much un-American thuggery as when they descended on major cities, Minneapolis being the epicenter early this year with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We're long past the "reform" stage and are in the "uproot the rotten organization and hold the guilty accountable" stage.
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