Barack Obama warns Trump's ICE operations are a threat to all Americans: 'Get off the sidelines'

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Former President Barack Obama is sending a warning to all Americans amid the Trump administration's ICE operations in Minnesota, cautioning that it will have broader implications on "basic freedoms." "More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it's important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every Ameri-can," wrote Obama in a post on X.<



America's first Black president shared a recent episode of "The Ezra Klein Show" on the New York Times podcast, featuring immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson, who lays out what she sees as the dangerous impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration poli-Obama said the podcast does a "good job of laying out what's at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change." Dickerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Atlantic, emphasizes that, at its core, the Trump administration's immigration tactics undermine the perception that the U.S. is a nation that honors the rule of law. "When you turn on the news and you look at what's happening in the United States right now, it doesn't look like a place where the rule of law is still in effect or where the country is necessarily free to participate in basic democratic freedoms, like voting and protesting. There's a lot of violence in the streets right now," said Dickerson. "We see them taking into custody American citizens. We see them taking into custody people who have legal status, stopping people and openly acknowledging that they're stopping people because of their physical appearance, their race, or their ac-