What Is Coming

 Little seems to get said in the press about the ongoing attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank; they are smaller in scale than the devastating bombardments to the south in Gaza, but even more vicious in some ways.  A good source of reporting on events is David Schulman who periodically writes in The New York Review of Books.  His latest brief report, "Netanyahu's War", looks at the courageous efforts of Israeli human rights activists to ameliorate the unrelenting attacks on Palestinian families by the invading Israeli settlers with the aid of soldiers and police. Schulman also succinctly profiles the perpetrators:

In this country, ICE is clearly making use of neighborhood informants, but violent hate groups have so far only been able to operate intermittently.  Those groups, however, are bound to be encouraged  and enabled as Trump and his Republican lackeys pour vast resources into their anti-immigrant programs.While that escalation seems inevitable, an awareness of it makes effective resistance feasible.  A good example of that was provided recently by the invasion of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles by heavily armed Federal forces.  What is most interesting about that event is that there were no arrests of undocumented people; that was the result of a well-organized resistance effort to provide documentation and timely warnings as described in an article in The Intercept, What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood.

UPDATE

Featured on the evening news was ICEBLOCK, an Iphone app which records and reports sightings of ICE agents within a 5-mile radius.  (I don't have an Iphone.  I would be interested in assessments of the app in the Albuquerque area.)