This chasm between endless bravado and chest-beating in propaganda, and the reality on the ground -- that is the very essence of the fascist regime in Russia.

And to be clear, it isn’t at all certain what’s happening. No one doubts individual officers are friendly with ICE. But a policy change to work more closely with feds, if it happened, would be a historic and dangerous misread of the public mood - literally negotiating with terrorists.

anyway ICE cars are sighted nonstop, abductions continue at a high rate, and school absenteeism remains about 50% as tens of thousands of families remain in hiding. the city is being economically flattened. aftermath I guess

It’s a common but ethically bankrupt practice to surrender paragraphs in your news stories to people you know are trying to trick your audience with disinformation. There’s no rule that news outlets have to do it.