I haven’t heard one note of sympathy or regret from the otherwise active mouth and busy little texting fingers of our chrome-plated Reginald Bump. The Department of Homeland Security’s hyper-aggressive ICE and CBP employees have been directly responsible for injuries and deaths, but the ultimate responsibility lies at the desk where the buck stops.

In the last three months, from December 2025 through February 2026, DHS agents have killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis, and one person was killed in a fatal car crash in Georgia while being pursued by ICE operatives. In the same three-month period, another 16 people have died in DHS custody, typically at private for-profit prison facilities paid for by our tax dollars. Many of the deaths and injuries in the year-plus that Bump has been in office were the result of shootings. We would be safer if DHS employees did not carry firearms.

The immigration status of the people that renegade DHS agents have killed or injured is not clear, but the casualties likely include lawful immigrants with no criminal record. Justified as a crackdown on murderers, drug dealers, and rapists—the worst of the worst—entering the United States, the true goal appears to be deterrence of all immigration and the deportation of immigrants who have lived here for decades and who have become part of our country’s economy and social fabric. The evidence is found in the arrest and detention of immigrants with no record of criminal convictions of any kind. Politifact has reported that only 7% of the immigrants arrested by ICE had a history of violent criminal convictions.

Further evidence of the zero-immigration goal is the wanton cruelty and absence of due process not only practiced but proudly promoted by the DHS operation. The fact that the targets of DHS aggression now include people exercising the First Amendment right of free speech is not inadvertent. The protesters have become useful “extras” in the DHS cinematography of lawless force and deterrence designed to discourage immigrants and protesters alike.

There is no greater demonstration of power than the capacity to take the life of another human being. In a word: homicide. The desire to show power on the streets of Minneapolis and other cities has exposed a fondness for homicide that extends to the administration’s foreign policy. The administration’s “Department of War” has sent missiles to blow up small boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing more than 100 people. The motivation to defend the United States from an imminent threat of invasion is absurdly disproportionate to the reality of small vessels incapable of reaching U.S. shores and the lack of evidence that they were engaged in anything more sinister than fishing.

The Bump administration will reap more homicides from the war it has initiated in Iran. Iranian counterattacks have spread the potential death toll to neighboring countries in the Middle East, including Israel, Kuwait, Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The war is not even three days old and so casualty figures are not yet known. So far, we know that U.S. missile strikes have killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Also, we can hold the administration accountable for the unintended deaths of six U.S. military personnel and more than 100 school children.

The president’s fondness for homicide both at home and abroad has no good explanation. At 80, he is growing weaker and more impotent, but he may not want to admit it. He compensates by putting his name on public buildings, by tearing down the East Wing of the White House, and by choosing to ignore Constitutional limits on executive powers. These things make him feel young and immortal. Starting a new war makes him feel very powerful even if there is no other purpose for it. He has not, and possibly cannot, articulate a plan for the future of the region, for the “day after” the war. If there is no plan, it is because he has no interest in the details, beyond the adrenaline rush of homicide he craves.

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