Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’
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The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 days ago

    They’ve done two big, “operations,” in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They’re getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they’ve got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 days ago

        I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that’s always threatening to burst to the surface. I don’t know much about Minneapolis, but if they’re anything like the midwesterners I’ve known, they’re kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
          2·
          1 day ago

          And Los Angeles is not known for the placidity of its inhabitants either, at least not in the areas likely to be targeted by ICE.

          • pjwestin@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy