Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
You misunderstand. That they can target anyone, at any time, is the point. They want you to live in fear.
Like everyone has this image of the Nazis being very orderly and efficient. And in some ways that’s true. But the Sturmabteilung, like ICE, were not accountable to the law. If they turned up and decided they didn’t like you, you could be beaten, kidnapped, tortured, or killed.