But the obvious point here is thousands and thousands and thousands of solvers won't take it that way. And maybe you think, "it's an agency, it exists, it's a neutral term, fair game!" You can think that. And to use the clue to *emphasize* the trauma of "raiding," my god. And so we have this pretty decent, very challenging puzzle, full of many things worth discussing, but all those things are overshadowed by I.C.E. never boarded your Greyhound and demanded to see your papers, as far as I know. Constructors don't usually opt for the acronym or initialism when they've got an ordinary word on their hands. You have to be impossibly tone-deaf or literally malicious to choose-choose!-the acronym here. And more importantly-and this is where "unfathomable" comes in-you have about, give or take, plus or minus, roughly 7000 JILLION DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN CLUE " ICE". is, you know what it means to people, you know the anger and sadness its very existence provokes in people. There is no branch of law enforcement more despised in this country than I.C.E., none more specifically associated with the brutalization of immigrants and refugees, the tearing apart of families. ( I.C.E.) as anything but a middle finger to every single person who dared complain about BEANER. ![]() It's hard not to see today's 4D: Raiding grp. ![]() ![]() But apparently it goes on in quite the same fashion. Fine, you didn't know BEANER was a slur-except you did, you were told, explicitly, before it went to print, and you didn't care-there was a dust-up, the whole incident went through the media wringer, you issued a nominal apology, everyone still loves their crossword, life goes on. It remains unfathomable to me that the editors of this puzzle continue to troll their audience with racial provocation.
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