https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/reader-contribution-uk-deportation
"On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Renee Good, an American citizen, mother of
three, and award-winning poet, was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. She
wasn’t smuggling anyone, she was protesting. Just over two weeks later, on
January 24, it happened again. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who
dedicated his life to caring for veterans, was shot dead by federal agents in
the same city while trying to assist a woman who had been shoved to the ground
during a raid.
In both cases, the machinery of the state worked efficiently, not to
investigate the killings, but to justify them. The administration labelled both
Good and Pretti “domestic terrorists” using the weight of the federal
government to posthumously criminalise citizens for the act of dissent. These
tragedies are not anomalies, they are the inevitable output of a specific type
of enforcement model. It is a system so aggressive and unaccountable that it
ends up targeting the very citizens it claims to protect.
As a migrant who calls the UK his home, I look at Minneapolis and see a
warning, because if Reform UK gets its way, this is exactly the machinery they
intend to build here."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
