On Friday, June 16, the U.S. Department of Justice released the results of its two-year investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. They analyzed about 187,000 traffic stops spanning five years, from November 2016 to August 2022. The DOJ’s findings were front- page news nationwide. And while they may have come as a shock to some, to people living in Minneapolis, the results were hardly surprising.
When it comes to border policy, for some the cruelty is still the point.
That appears to be the message of last Friday’s letter to the editor, “This can’t go on,” in which the author pines for the supposed halcyon days of the Trump administration, during which, according to the author, “our border was secure.” We can ensure the “sovereignty” of our nation, the author claims, only by “returning our border to what it was previously.”
But what does that really mean?