NH vigils part of movement to end ICE intimidation
Last weekend, from Concord to Conway, folks gathered to mourn the death of Minneapolis’ Renee Nicole Good. A thousand similar “ICE Out for Good” gathering were held nationwide.
Good was shot in the face by an immigration office sent by the Trump administration under the pretense of making Minneapolis safer. That’s like the twisted logic the Ayatollah Khamenei uses in Iran when his own goons beat up and gun down Iranians who oppose him.
How could anyone feel safe when after murdering Good in the morning, masked ICE agents, acting like roving armed and brutal gangs in Haiti, showed up at Minneapolis’ Roosevelt High School in the afternoon as students were leaving at the end of the school day.
The school administrators rightfully closed the Minneapolis schools last Friday for fear that the ICE and other federal agents might not stop at killing moms and start shooting teenagers, too, and then make up some false story that the agents were in fear of their lives.
To make everyone safer, the federal police should leave Minneapolis and allow the moms of six-year-olds and everyone else to feel safe again under local governance and local policing. That’s the Minnesota way, that’s the New Hampshire way and that’s the American way. Each of us must call and encourage our local and state leaders, especially Gov. Kelly Ayotte, to follow the lead of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who told Trump’s equivalent of the American Gestapo to get the F out of his city.