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The killing of Renée Good, a 37-year-old woman executed in her car by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, is not merely a news story. It is a historical rupture, a bloody sign of the direction of travel in America over the last two decades. To treat it as an isolated incident of police brutality or a tragic administrative error is to fundamentally misunderstand the trajectory of the American state in the second quarter of the 21st century. As a historian, I am wary of hyperbole. Yet, looking at the events unfolding in the United States, it…