The federal immigration policy is a ghost racist policy formulated to lower the voting-age non-white population, because the Census prediction for 2045 by educated statistical mathematicians far smarter than me says minorities will equalize the current white majority. That projection is real, the Census Bureau has said for years that around 2045 the country stops having a white majority, and this crackdown treats that arithmetic as a threat to be managed.
What we are in the midst of witnessing is the historical malfeasance aided and abetted by Deputy Chief Stephen Miller, who has gone on public record stating that federal agents performing their immigration detention, arrest, and deportation duties have immunity to do so. He said it on Fox News in October, “you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties,” and it is false; agents who break the law can be prosecuted and have been, whatever immunity he imagines he can hand out. He is not a judge nor the secretary of Homeland Security, but a devout white nationalist who would rather see the great American experiment crumble rather than reach its full diversity potential and power.
And power, after all, is the keyword. White power and economic power coincide with political power to make non-white lives difficult, keep poor white people satiated with the raw meat of racism. You can see the mechanism of who gets stopped. As long as the poorest white person feels above the highest nonwhite, then they are comforted despite being broke, sick, and forgotten.
Watch what the policy actually charges people with. Alejandro Orellana spent months under federal indictment for handing water bottles, snacks, and face shields to strangers on a sidewalk in East Los Angeles. The FBI called it aiding a riot, and he faced years in federal prison over supplies you could buy at a hardware store.
In 2026, the Justice Department dropped every charge, and the case that Todd Blanche’s office spent months building came apart in a single filing. If handing out water and face shields were a federal crime, they would have proven it in front of a jury.
Orellana was not an outlier. He was the pattern. In Chicago, the operation Border Patrol branded Midway Blitz filled the dockets with protest arrests, and by spring, prosecutors were dropping them in bunches, some over grand jury misconduct, some for lack of evidence, some because a bystander’s video proved the agent’s report wrong. In Minnesota, more than a dozen protesters accused of assaulting federal agents had their cases thrown out, and fourteen more are still fighting charges a jury may never get to hear.
Against this backdrop, it is easy to see why the federal attacks instigated by Greg Bovino at the direction of the above, as he was caught on camera during a PBS documentary explaining to his troops, and many poorer white dont care. Bovino built his name running the surge in Los Angeles, carried the same tactics to Minneapolis, and had agents in masks with no visible identification pull citizens off sidewalks for being brown, Asian, or Black.
That documentary is Frontline’s Caught in the Crackdown, and its correspondent, ProPublica’s A.C. Thompson, spends it chasing Bovino from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis while Bovino waves him off to the public affairs office. Thompson kept the camera running because the only honest account of the raids was the one that did not come from the agency running them. They continue to prove over and over again that their word can’t be trusted. By spring, the administration had sent Bovino back to the border and fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
I think both of them were PR nightmares, and when the midterm election ballots are cast, we can look back on them for the added motivation to vote for public order and good discipline again. I spent 23 years in military service and recognize what good order and discipline looks like, or at least should resemble.
Then they killed a nurse. Alex Pretti was thirty-seven, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis, a lawful gun owner with no criminal record, and on January 24, a Border Patrol agent shot him dead on a South Minneapolis street.
Kristi Noem said he attacked the officers. Bovino said he wanted to do maximum damage. Stephen Miller called him a would-be assassin.
Then the video came out, and in the footage, Pretti is holding a cellphone while an officer pulls a handgun from his waistband after he is already on the ground, the first shot a second later. A pediatrician who was there said no agent performed CPR, while DHS told the country that medics delivered aid immediately.
I wrote an article about eugenics and its faulty science, still used today to justify and hide the blatant racism. That same pseudoscience wears a badge now, and it is why four federal officials could describe one killing while the cameras recorded another.
The sad part is that the status of being forgotten, which permeates MAGA, is the same for other non-MAGA whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and other immigrants whose cultures already mix to create the underbelly of American greatness, not the mythical “great white hope going it alone.”
Sources
Charges dropped against Alejandro Orellana — Boyle Heights Beat
DOJ drops case over LA protester face-shield distribution — Bloomberg Law
Cases against arrested anti-ICE protesters keep falling apart — Frontline / ProPublica
Charges dropped against Chicago activists amid grand jury misconduct claims — CNN
14 Minnesota anti-ICE protesters plead not guilty — Minnesota Reformer
Bovino removed as Border Patrol commander at large — The Atlantic (via AOL)
“Caught in the Crackdown” — Frontline / PBS
Kristi Noem out as DHS secretary — CBS News
What Trump officials say vs. what the video shows in Alex Pretti’s killing — CBS News
Videos contradict administration statements on Pretti shooting — PBS NewsHour
Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’ as Stephen Miller said? — PolitiFact
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