ICE Is to Blame
2017-02-15U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said tonight that reports of immigration checkpoints and sweeps or “roundups” were false, dangerous and irresponsible. They said reports like these created “mass panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger”.
This is the same ICE that detained a DREAMer in his home in Seattle. The same ICE that detained—on a tip from the victim’s abuser—a survivor of domestic violence at a courthouse in El Paso. The same ICE that detained two men coming out of a church’s Winter homeless shelter in Virginia. All in the last week.
By advocating non-compliance and resistance, the “Resist” movement is calling into question the legitimacy of this administration’s authority. Such erosion of government authority is intolerable to any state, particularly one with a long history of disrupting social movements. As such, Resist will be a target for state disruption, either through direct targeting of visible leadership or by disrupting specific relationships and associations within the movement.