A woman was shot and killed Wednesday by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, inflaming an already fierce debate over President Trump’s deportation agenda. Dueling, partisan narratives quickly emerged, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling the woman a domestic terrorist and arguing the entire episode was a terrorist attack. That prompted a furious… Source link
When Donald Trump won a second term as US president a year ago, members of violent militias and far-right extremist groups who had spent years boosting the lie that the 2020 election was rigged were ready to assist the president with delivering on one of his main campaign promises: mass deportations. “I’m willing to help,” Richard Mack, a former sheriff who founded the far-right Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, told WIRED at the time, claiming he was in touch with Tom Homan, the man Trump installed as his “border czar.” Tim Foley, head of the Arizona Border Recon, which describes itself as a “non-government organization,” also told WIRED he was in contact with administration officials. William Teer, then head of the far-right Texas Three Percenters militia, wrote a letter to Trump offering his help. Homan even met with an affiliate of the Proud Boys after the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed. According to reports about the meeting, they discussed deportations. Despite all of these militia leaders and far-right extremist groups salivating at …
