Get used to hearing the phrase “Papers, please,” a metaphor for life under a police state. The mayor of Newark, NJ said federal officers raided a fish market without a warrant and began mass detainment of people who couldn’t prove their citizenship—something many of us don’t carry on us. At least one US veteran was illegally arrested. How long until that happens to American citizens in Wisconsin? Also: We’ll talk to a Courier Newsroom colleague in Texas about this week’s wild winter weather there.

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