Trump is firing people for upholding the law.

Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times.

Because, of course, Trump wants to detain people indiscriminately.

Beckwith had received a phone call from Gregory Bovino, who leads the Border Patrol’s unit in El Centro, a border city 600 miles south of Sacramento. Bovino was planning an immigration raid in Sacramento and asked Beckwith who in her office to contact if his officers were assaulted, the Times reported, citing Beckwith.

600 miles is a lot of miles. One has to wonder why a Border Patrol unit on the actual border is planning a raid 600 miles from said border. Maybe that’s what they do, I don’t know, but Beckwith apparently didn’t think so.

She informed Bovino that agents were not allowed to indiscriminately stop people in her district, north of Bakersfield, per a federal court order issued in April that prevents the agency from detaining people without reasonable suspicion. The US supreme court overturned a similar court order issued in Los Angeles earlier this month.

The Supreme Court is totally down with detaining people at will. There will be fewer but better Trumpier Californians.

In a 10.57am email on 15 July, Beckwith repeated her message, telling Bovino she expected “compliance with court orders and the constitution”. Less than six hours later, her work computer and cellphone no longer functioning, she received a letter to her personal email account notifying her that she had been terminated.

Two days later, Bovino proceeded with his immigration raid at a Sacramento Home Depot.

The dragon is out of the cage and coming for all of us, slowly but surely. It’s immigrants now and it will be his critics in a few months or weeks. It will be all of us who don’t kiss the ring.