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EPISODE · Oct 6, 2025 · 6 MIN

Weekend Hot Takes: When the Border Comes to Your City - and the even Police Say “Enough”

from SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins · host Swopbehindbars

We’re in strange terrain now: the federal government is treating cities like Portland and Chicago as frontline zones in a migration war. ICE, Border Patrol, tactical units, tear gas, mass arrests - this is no longer about border states. It’s urban invasion. And in a twist that surprises no one who works with criminalized communities, even police forces in those cities aren’t fully signing on.

We’re in strange terrain now: the federal government is treating cities like Portland and Chicago as frontline zones in a migration war. ICE, Border Patrol, tactical units, tear gas, mass arrests - this is no longer about border states. It’s urban invasion. And in a twist that surprises no one who works with criminalized communities, even police forces in those cities aren’t fully signing on.

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