It was understandable and probably justified when a surge of roughly 3,000 masked and gun-toting federal agents into greater Minneapolis was described in martial terms, as a kind of modern-day Battle of Stalingrad fought in a snowbound U.S. prairie metropolis. Watching the icy slips of the clumsy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and the remarkable pushback from whistle-blowing neighbors braving sub-zero cold, the writer Margaret Killjoy quoted a friend: “ICE made a classic Nazi mistake: they invaded a winter people in winter.” So when border czar Tom Homan stood at a Minneapolis podium last week and declared an...