The Cost of Dying and the Cost of Living

The growing public outrage at ICE thuggery, culminating in two murders, not only forced Trump to change course, but upended his strategy of keeping everyone off-balance by relentlessly changing the subject. Even more than the missing Epstein files, ICE is now the subject that refuses to go away.

Even if ICE operations in Minneapolis are decapitated by the dismissal of Greg Bovino, the zombie will live on—unless ICE is defunded or otherwise dismantled. A tactical pause won’t stop the outrage.