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I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

Over the past several months, I have seen this quote repeatedly on social media, quote,

We went to bed one night, old-fashioned conservative, compromise union wigs, and waked up stark, mad abolitionists.

Some of that's because I follow historians on social media,

but it's mostly because this quote has been really resonating with people

in the face of what is happening with ICE in the United States.

If you're not up to speed on your U.S. government acronyms, ICE is immigration and customs

enforcement. Other federal agencies are also involved with this, including Border Patrol,

and this all rolls up under the Department of Homeland Security or DHS. This quote is partly in response to the horror of what these federal officers and agencies are doing.

Things like pepper spraying people directly in the face when they are already on the ground.

Detaining U.S. citizens and legal residents, including pulling them out of their homes, into freezing weather, still in their pajamas.

Detaining preschoolers. Deporting U.S. citizens, including at least two children who were in cancer treatment at the time.

An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good and then casually walked away.

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Prettie.

They shot him at least ten times while he was already on the ground.

In both of these cases afterward, multiple federal officials told transparently obvious lies about what happened.

We are recording this on January 27, 26th, and who knows what else might happen before it comes

out. So that's been, those kinds of things have been the kinds of things that I have seen

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