“We can’t come this week,” read the text message I received from the maid who cleans our house every other week. “ICE is at the door.” While I tried to figure out whether she was being literal or speaking figuratively, I received another text.

“Mr. Tom, my guys won’t leave their houses. They are scared.” This message was from the yard service I’ve been using for more than nine years. It didn’t matter whether they were here legally or not.

But it does matter.

My Republican friends didn’t acknowledge and tried to minimize what ICE was doing. Some in my own family emphatically denied that ICE agents were wearing masks; that was just fake news, they said. Besides, ICE agents weren’t assaulting people who were here legally. Only criminals were being rounded up.

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