Meager demonstrations — sometimes by a few hundred people; sometimes just a few dozen — have been staged around the state in recent days. As elsewhere in the country, they are protesting the new presidential administration’s long-awaited crackdown on illegal immigration.
Which is to say, they are protesting the government’s enforcement, at long last, of federal law.
The displays of solidarity have been accompanied by assorted other acts of “resistance,” like “know your rights” training sessions that essentially brief immigrants here illegally on how to stand their ground against federal law officers. As noted in news reports, those sessions even have taken the form of self-styled allies shouting through bullhorns to residents of apartments, instructing them on their rights as federal agents approached…