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When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote , “they promptly let the individual go.”

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged , tackled , beaten , tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on . They’ve been

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