Update 2/27/2026 America sours on Trump's immigration policies in new poll. The backlash spreads nationally and impacts Trump's approval rating. The legalisms as a basis for argumentation have changed to moral outrage that human beings, regardless of legal status or race, are treated this way. The fear of all immigrants is somehow criminals has been replaced by the word "neighbor" and its meaning in biblical terms as defined by the words of Jesus. Yes, if polled, most Americans approve of deporting illegal migrant violent criminals, but that is not what is happening. In their dragnet approach, there are far more innocent victims of their violent techniques. Yes, No Kings still has great significance and protections in the amendments of the Constitution that need to be respected and upheld. Moral outrage is becoming even more significant as the stories emerge of the treatment, the denial of civil and human rights, the warehousing of thousands of children and adults, disappeared with no recourse, no sunlight, into a chain of concentration camps. These are echoes of what we know and see as evil, the Japanese internment in WWII or Russia throughout history, the gulag archipelago. Cruelty is not a humane value nor an American one.
Note, too, while polls reflect wide attitudes of a cross section, the street demonstrations (big one scheduled in Chicago today led by the Catholic church)are by, yes, mostly White people on behalf of brown and black people, risking to die for them, as two did,and speak out against ICE trying to intimidate them.New Filings Detail Harrowing Accounts of ICE and Border Patrol Violence and Intimidation Against Minnesotans | American Civil Liberties Union In this situation, especially brown people racially profiled and persecuted for just being brown, or without documents and with documents, terror keeps them hidden..
For those who still harbor racism in their souls, white nationalism and/or white supremacy, this must come as a shock, especially if they only listen to friends who already agree with them or only get their news and information from social media and TV media that cater to their preferred political beliefs.
Massive crowds from California to New York turn out to protest ICE crackdowns | Watch The attempt to frighten protesters into submission in Minneapolis is backfiring on the Trumpists, and instead, their violent behavior may be resulting in more than just increasing the numbers of protesters in Minneapolis, but it is feeding an already vibrant pro democracy movement nationwide. Many can now see what it is like to be oppressed by an out-of-control militia, a hands-on lesson to the rest of the nation of what a police state dictatorship looks and feels like. Supporting democracy is no longer a matter of keeping some revered abstract political science theory memorialized in a Founders' document that we must protect just because we have had it for 250 years. Protecting it is the antidote to a real-life attempt by a wannabe tyrant strong man to wreck a democracy so he can have more power at the expense of we the people.
What Minnesota has done is to replace the description of undocumented migrants as murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and fraudsters with the term "neighbor". That alone has a profound impact of giving the law-abiding, papered or unpapered brown and black migrants and citizens, a positive name, and throws in the face of the white nationalist ideology, their assumption that citizens will cheer migrants' removal from their communities. It is not a value shared by the citizens and state city officials. It was a gross miscalculation by the Trump machine that, in their media-echoing bubble, ordinary people in blue states share the same racist /anti migrant attitude as MAGA land. Minnesota has turned the perception of the evil nature of migrants upside down by calling and protecting them because they are neighbors. The moral outrage this has inspired is now evident in word, deed, and protest by the citizens themselves, mostly white who know their brown and black neighbors are living in fear of being snatched in the ICE racist profiling dragnet.
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