Donald Trump Has Made Chicago a Target. But Residents Are Rising Up.
Edwin Eisendrath
Here’s what we know: About a quarter-million Chicagoans showed up for No Kings Day rallies in the city on Saturday.
Here’s what we don’t know: How many people the feds have arrested or detained in this city. We don’t know how many they’ve arrested anywhere. ICE no longer shares data with Americans. The online data portal is no longer updated. Private groups are trying to piece together the facts, but dishonest press releases from the government are meant to reinforce their power, rather than to share facts with the public.
The Trump administration’s opacity hides its lawlessness. Recall that some 1,800 migrants held in that terrible prison camp in the Florida Everglades simply disappeared. Efforts to find out what happened to these men continue, but the government will not cooperate. According to the Miami Herald, lawyers cannot find their clients. Disappeared. In America.
On our streets — our streets — Americans citizens have been tased and had our necks knelt upon like George Floyd. We’ve been held outside in the rain in our underwear, we’ve had the doors to their homes blown off, we’ve had to watch as armed men in camo gear zip tie our children. U.S. citizens. We are not being protected by our government; we are being attacked.
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