Immigration enforcement is an ugly business. It’s never going to look like a ribbon-cutting or Main Street parade.
But what’s happening in Charlotte right now feels foreign in a different way. People are asking whether they should be afraid of federal law enforcement coming to town, and local leaders are parsing rumors about which branch of the U.S. government might show up on our streets.
Somehow, we’ve landed in a place where the menu seems to offer only two choices: pretend the border doesn’t exist, or accept scenes that look like something from another country’s newsreel…