Adam Serwer

I think you'd have to say the cruelty is the point there.

I mean, you just look at how people are talking about...

You know, the two Minneapolis St.

Paul residents who were killed by the Border Patrol and basically seeking to unperson them in order to justify the unjustifiable, which is, you know, the taking of the lives of people who pose no threat to anyone and who were killed.

you know, when they were killed in the process of trying to protect or aid the people around them.

So, look, you know, I was riding around South Minneapolis in a neighborhood called Powderhorn that has seen a lot of ice activity.

And what you'll see when you go to Powderhorn is there are a lot of people walking around on foot with their whistles.

Sometimes they stand in front of particular restaurants that they know are vulnerable because they're, you know, Somali-American owned or whatever.

mexican-american owned or something like that um so they know there'll be a target for immigration authorities and then you have people in cars and generally you know these people are referred to as observers or commuters and you'll have a driver and a co-pilot and the co-pilot will listen to sorry my uh my cat uh loves it whenever i'm recording you two people love the cat all good so

The co-pilot will listen to a dispatcher who will identify locations where ICE activity is occurring or the presence of an ICE vehicle.

Now, ICE came in and basically took all the rental cars in the city.

I couldn't even get one.

And so they have all these, you know, sport utility vehicles with out of state plates, which made them relatively easy to identify.

And so the ice watch folks, which and they're, you know, decentralized, organized by neighborhood.

It's a very person to person thing.

That's why it was difficult for conservatives to infiltrate, although they appear to have successfully done that.

And they operate using handles.

So I don't actually know the names of the people that I was with.

I know their handles and I can communicate with them and I can talk to them and I can confirm things with them.

But, you know, they did not give me their names.