On Monday Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s border czar, declared that New York City isn’t cooperating sufficiently with ICE’s efforts to round up immigrants, so ICE is going to “flood the zone” with agents. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see how this could end very, very badly.Suppose, for example, that masked, armed ICE agents were to descend in large numbers on a thronged street like Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, seizing people they imagine might be dangerous illegals. How would the agents make that judgment? According to Homan, they’d do it in part based on “physical appearance” — although he’s tried, unconvincingly, to walk that back.But if that’s how ICE agents see things, basically everyone on Roosevelt Avenue will look to them like a criminal alien. So the risk of angry, possibly violent confrontations — in particular of ICE agents running amok because they perceive themselves as
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