Fair-minded people can debate many things about immigration enforcement, Donald Trump’s immigration policies, and the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement agencies. But the debate over what has been happening in Minnesota is not about any of those things. It is about whether federal law is sovereign everywhere in the country, or not. It is about whether massive resistance by states, cities, and street mobs can nullify federal law, or not. And just as was true on January 6, that question must be answered first before we proceed to more mundane questions about how our laws should be executed, or whether they should be changed by democratic means.
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