Our Streets Aren’t Save Either

Raziq Rauf for his ‘Running Sucks’ blog:

What ICE is doing in the USA right now is even more sinister than anything TSA was created to do, of course, but it’s the same Dept of Homeland Security agents of chaos at work. This time, however, they’re also dangerously ill-trained. This all means that I have to carry my papers with me. Even then, I know it won’t be enough to be bundled off the street into an unmarked van.

This article arrives in my inbox at the perfect moment. I have been sitting on my previous post about the unrests in Mexico for the past hour and wanted to make sure we’re not digressing into the abyss of xenophobia with the notions so often way too hastily thrown around that “these things only every happen beyond our borders in ‘developing countries'”.