Adam Serwer

So to me, you know, what these people are doing is profoundly brave.

They're unarmed.

They do not seek physical confrontation with ICE agents.

Their purpose is just to foil their operations by making everybody aware that they're occurring.

Well, I mean, you know, ICE wants the element of surprise.

So if people are ready for them, they might be able to escape or hide, you know, or something of the sort.

And the thing is, is that what people have told me is that, you know, it's not just if you don't have legal status that you should be afraid, because there are lots of stories of people stopping people who are citizens, who have legal status, who are here legally and being mistreated.

You know, I spoke to one Somali-American activist who told me that her sister had been detained at the Wibble building for hours, even though she's an American citizen.

So I think it's not just a question of they're trying to warn undocumented immigrants.

They're warning anybody who might presumably be racially profiled by ICE because the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment doesn't exist anymore and you can just stop anyone if you think they're an illegal immigrant because they have brown skin or they speak a different language.

Well, to be honest, I don't think that Miller and whoever's running the like DHS social media accounts distinguishes between American citizen, undocumented immigrant person with legal status at all.

If you are of a demographic category that they don't want in the country.

I think they do not care.

Stephen Miller is a big fan of the racist 1920s immigration restrictions that partially inspired the Nazis.

He said that the big problem with the country was when they repealed those restrictions in 1965.

He's talked about if you import the third world, quote unquote, you get the third world, which is you can't even describe it as barely veiled, really racist statement.

that does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.

It says the presence of people who are not like me in this country is wrong.

And as long as that's your ideological, you know, North Star, you cannot have like a lawful legal immigration policy that distinguishes between categories of people, because what you really want to achieve is a kind of ethnic cleansing, demographic reengineering of the country.

The overall thesis is that I think, you know, if you've ever seen the movie Fight Club, you know, there's that Tyler Durden line where he's like, we have no great war.