Hannah Rosen

Social media is full of a new kind of video.

Federal agents not out arresting undocumented immigrants, but getting into physical confrontations with American citizens, sometimes on otherwise quiet suburban streets.

One video circulating this week showed a masked ICE agent shoving a Minneapolis city councilman into the streets.

The protests come, of course, after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed an unarmed protester, Renee Good, in her car.

And they've grown dramatically with the Trump administration's response to the shooting, which has been no Department of Justice investigation, no sense of accountability, or even discussion of accountability.

In fact, the administration has reflexively defended the shooter and dismissed Goode as highly disrespectful and committing an act of domestic terrorism.

And then the administration is sending hundreds more officers into the city to double down on their mission.

which leaves citizens everywhere asking, have we reached the point where a federal agent can shoot an unarmed American citizen and we just continue on with the program?

I'm Hannah Rosen.

This is Radio Atlantic.

Today, will there be justice or will things only get worse?

Back in October, as Illinois leaders pushed back on the immigration deployment in their state, Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, had this message on Fox News.

Miller's message that you can operate with impunity, even against Americans, suggests that maybe the role of ICE is evolving.

Could Homeland Security be turning into an openly political entity that welcomes clashes with American citizens?

We'll talk about that in the second half of the show.

But first, there is another important authority in the mix, the state of Minnesota, which seems not to be falling in line with the administration's program.

This week, six federal prosecutors in Minnesota reportedly resigned because the Justice Department pushed to investigate Good's widow, but not the ICE agent who shot Good.

That is Brenna Goddard, an attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Goddard studies the power that states have to hold federal officers like ICE agent Ross accountable.

I started by asking her about Stephen Miller's claim that they were immune.