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Protesters swarm Susan Collins’ office after feds shoot a man in Maine
Susan Collins Didn’t Get Caught in the Crossfire. She Helped Build It.The Power Was FederalA 26-year-old man from Colombia was killed in a shooting involving ICE agents in Maine, and protesters went to Susan Collins’s office because Collins voted in June for a $70 billion funding bill for Border Patrol and ICE. That is the political center of gravity here: not a noisy office confrontation, but a senator helping finance the enforcement apparatus that produced the killing.Collins Owns the VoteThe story is not about confusion. It is about authorization. Collins voted to expand and sustain the…
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