ICE has been publicly compared to the Brownshirts in Minneapolis and after Gregory Bovino’s appearance, that comparison has stuck. Right, so ICE carried out an operation in Minneapolis that ended with a civilian being shot, in public, during enforcement, and the system closed ranks around it. But since then, federal leadership has now turned up, visibly, unapologetically, dressed for command in their heads, but inviting some rather unfortunate, but perhaps also accurate comparisons to the Brownshirts of Ernst Röhm. Immigration enforcement too often gets sold sold as paperwork, warrants, process — something that happened quietly, somewhere else. Once you put lethal force on the street and defend it as routine, that story is finished. And once senior figures arrive afterwards dressed up in a manner evoking memories of the SS, performing authority r ...