If you’re comfortable watching ICE agents shove, handcuff, and terrorize people who are assumed to be “illegal,” then history already told us who you would have been decades ago. You would’ve stood on the sidewalk, nodding in approval as attack dogs were unleashed on Black protesters in Birmingham. You would’ve said, “Well, if they’d just followed the law…” as fire hoses slammed into children. The excuse is always the same; “They shouldn’t have broken the law.” But laws have never been the moral compass; they’ve always been the disguise for cruelty. The question isn’t who is “legal,” it’s who we still think is human enough to deserve dignity. ICE’s violence doesn’t spring from nowhere. It’s a direct descendant of the same state-sanctioned dehumanization that fueled segregation, internment camps, and slave patrols. Every time you look away, or worse, justify it, you’re defending the machinery that makes injustice look legitimate.