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  • Why We Should Abolish ICE: When “Protection” Turns Into Detention, Violence, and Fear

    Bychrisconnors

    In Minneapolis, a woman sat in her car and ended up dead after an encounter with an ICE officer. In a different set of cases, U.S. citizens were hauled into detention anyway, kicked, dragged, held for hours or days, and told, in effect, to prove they belonged here. These are not freak incidents. They are the predictable outputs of an agency built for interior enforcement, where speed beats certainty and accountability can hinge on whether federal officials choose to open the file. That is why the argument to Abolish ICE is no longer theoretical. It is about what happens when “protection” becomes a system that can seize the wrong person, escalate the moment, and then ask the public to trust a process it cannot audit.

  • Citizen “We”: The Hidden Infrastructure of Democracy

    Bychrisconnors

    Citizen “We” is the part of democracy you do not see on cable news, the union meeting after work, the volunteer crew fixing a playground, the booster club running the snack stand, the faith group organizing meal trains, the local team where strangers learn how to trust each other. It is where Americans practice self-government long before they argue about it at the ballot box. And it is often the first target of tyranny, not because it wins elections, but because it builds coordination, loyalty, and courage outside the state. When leaders weaken unions, stigmatize nonprofits, or treat civic organizing as suspicious, they are not just changing policy. They are cutting the country’s social wiring.