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Hate ICE as much as you love your fellow man. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But what the images of Liam also do is show the reality of the immigrants that ICE is spiriting off to faraway prisons, where the detained have few rights. In the pleading tone of the officials at Liam’s school – who had to tell an ICE vehicle to leave them alone while they were giving their press conference about his arrest – I can hear the reality that so many native-born Americans are now confronting: that the immigrants that ICE is stealing belong to us. Liam belongs to us the way that every child belongs to us – the way that their innocence and vulnerability make them our responsibility. But the adult immigrants who are being stolen belong to us, too – they belong to us in the sense that proximity, and familiarity, and regular interaction bring us all into a community of principle and mutual care, make us all our brother’s keeper, and calls on us to love our neighbors. Liam’s loved ones miss him as their friend, their son, and their student; we are enraged and scared for him as a child and as a fellow human being. It is the guiding philosophy of the white supremacists shaping immigration policy in the Trump administration that mankind is not one community, that we must not care for all of our fellows equally. The wrongness and evil of this idea is evident in Liam’s face. On Friday, just days after Liam’s capture, thousands of his neighbors in Minneapolis took to the streets to protest ICE’s presence in their city. In them we can see a noble, even heroic counterexample, the other side of America: they hate ICE in proportion to how much they love their fellow man.
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Absolutely, and it's a fantastic film although ultimately an oddly Trumpy message when the lawyer harangues the mutineers.
January 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Between this and "There are some sections of NY, Major, I wouldn't advise you to invade" it's a Bogartian moment.
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM