As an American, I am horrified by the lethal violence unleashed by ICE thugs across the US, even if, on my Danish-American mother’s side, I am descended from the “right” kind of immigrants, according to Trump: white, Protestant northern Europeans. By a twist of history involving the 1911 utopian Danish settlement of Solvang in California, I have a slew of cousins in Denmark. I keenly feel their anguish at what is happening with Greenland. They are good, kind people who can’t understand why the US is now turning against one of its most loyal allies.