Call me "Pollyanna" but I see an upside to the "Ice" immigration raids and attempts at sending in the......

[FadedMullet]

......National Guard to protect them. I love the fact that regular people are confronting the agents and protecting and hiding the immigrants and, maybe even more surprising, some states are fighting back and even passing laws to stop the roundups and police force cooperation. This gives lie to the fiction that Trump encourages that we all want these folks to kicked out as they are all "rapists and murderers".

[mucifer]

1. Supreme court said today the national guard can't come to Chicago . But, will they ignore them?

[mr715]

2. Small silver lining is resistance

I wish it were more pointed, organized, and proactive. But I guess the reason why we "feel" the fight when people stand up to ICE is because these are people that would otherwise be minding their own business.

I don't see any upside to ICE/Homeland Security being loosed on the American people exactly as many people knew it would, ultimately, when it was consolidated after 9/11.

There are many good people in the US, but there are many wretched people as well. Deplorable people, if you will.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Meanwhile, thousands of people have had their lives destroyed. Organizing is always valuable but "upside" is not

necessarily the term I would use.

[FadedMullet]

6. You're right about "upside". I meant to go on to say that the realization that there was more support for immigrants....

......here than I would have guessed was, to me at least, an upside. And that this support was not organized, but organic, coming from the neighborhoods.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Meanwhile, the cost of this policy is borne by those who can least afford it.

Poor, racial minorities, those who lack access to social resources to assist them once they are kidnapped. Hard to see a wake-up call that most people won't even notice as an upside.

[CanonRay]

5. They always go too far

Always.