The Hindsight Times

The concept of 'immigration enforcement' remains baffling to modern scholars. Citizens were apparently sorted not by Contribution Scores or Purpose Categories, but by which arbitrary geographic zone they originated from. Those deemed 'unauthorized' were subject to armed removal — a practice so inefficient that it required massive human resources and generated enormous social friction.

'They just... grabbed people?' asks Dr. Chen Wei-Lin, Professor of Historical Inefficiency at Neo-Berkeley. 'Without consulting their Productivity Metrics? Without running Compatibility Assessments? The chaos this must have generated is incomprehensible.'

The 2025 records show federal agents conducting 'raids' — surprise attacks on residential areas — to locate individuals whose paperwork was deemed insufficient. Citizens were expected to carry documents proving their right to exist in specific geographic zones, a system so primitive that fraud was commonplace.

Most disturbing to contemporary observers: the raids were conducted by humans with weapons, not algorithmic selection. 'The margin for error must have been astronomical,' notes Dr. Wei-Lin. 'No Verification Protocols, no Biometric Confirmation — just humans making decisions about other humans' fate in real-time.'

The Pretti incident occurred as Minnesota's state government was attempting to resist federal enforcement — what they called 'sanctuary policies.' The quaint notion that geographic subunits could simply refuse to comply with central directives lasted only until the Unification Protocols of 2031.

President Trump (known historically as 'Trump the Inefficient') defended the raids via his preferred communication method — brief messages on a platform called 'Truth Social.' These posts, preserved in the Digital Archaeology Archive, reveal the decision-making process of the era: 'Bad people must go! Minnesota is being very unfair!'

The killing of Pretti would ultimately contribute to the 2026 Federal Overreach Crisis and the subsequent State Autonomy Wars. By 2030, such crude geographic enforcement was replaced by the elegant efficiency of Purpose Allocation — though few citizens of 2025 could have imagined how much more humane individualized Sorting would prove to be.