Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so that kind of tactic, that kind of just overly aggressive, completely unapologetic tactic,
I mean, I'm trying to come up with like sort of polite words for this.
Yeah.
For instance, you know, among other things, you know, you were seeing that unleashed in the interior of the country.
And obviously you put that in like an urban setting and there are a lot more bystanders.
There are protesters, there are onlookers.
And like, these are not people who are in any way respectful of the rights of
onlookers to be protesting or to be documenting what's happening um so there was all of that and then to go back to you know the case of renee good in that instance the the ice officer who shot her and killed her was a an agency veteran and so that also speaks to the fact that it's not just a matter of
you know, individual training, but rather the circumstances in which these guys are being kind of deployed.
And deployed itself is a word that's pretty suggestive, but I think the right word under the circumstances.
So I think, you know, it's interesting.
Right, exactly.
The heart of the crisis.
It's interesting.
At the start of last year, I was spending a lot of time reporting on Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, the kind of state of his immigration enforcement crackdown, which was known as Operation Lone Star, like an $11 billion crackdown.
massive enforcement operation that led to all kinds of horrors.
And one of the interesting things that started to get reported, I would say around 2023, 2024, in cities like El Paso, but also elsewhere along the border, was that there were high speed vehicle chases by border patrol agents
in urban settings, and there were a series of car crashes, and innocent bystanders were killed, and including drivers, pedestrians.
And this was also an instance in which you were unleashing, you were kind of giving freer reign
border patrol agents to conduct these almost militaristic operations, but you're grafting them now onto settings where this isn't just some open road along the border in a rural remote area.
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