The officer and the activist: A perfect storm in Minnesota

Picture it: a crisp January morning in Minneapolis, snowy sidewalks crunching underfoot, the low hum of morning traffic, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross and “ICE Watch” activist Renee Good, strangers until that moment, crossed paths on a residential street near 34th Street and Portland Avenue.

I won’t pretend to know more than the broad strokes of either’s lives. But their roles in the current American political drama — one enforcing the law, the other resisting it — reveal how these strangers became bound by tragedy.

A good beginning point for the story of Good and Ross might be the moment former President Joe Biden took the oath of office. Biden immediately halted border wall construction and suspended the “Remain in Mexico” program that required asylum-seekers