Well, folks, it happened again, and this time it happened at the grocery store.

ICE agents arrested a man inside a Texas H-E-B, and the Houston Chronicle has the story. It didn't take long for the internet to catch fire over it, and social media is doing exactly what you'd expect social media to do. Half the folks posting are crying about how "scary" it must have been to see an arrest happen where people buy their groceries. The other half are asking the question I'd ask: well, what was he doing here in the first place?

Now, I've been in a lot of H-E-B stores since I moved out here to Texas, and I'll tell you what I love about them. Families, veterans, little kids getting a free cookie at the bakery counter. About as American a place as you can find on a Saturday morning. And I know some people are upset that an arrest happened in a place like that.

Let me say this gently, the way I'd say it over coffee: arrests happen where people are. Criminals buy milk too. We don't get to pick the scenery. If a man is in this country illegally, the parking lot doesn't make him legal, and neither does the bakery counter.

The usual crowd is already wringing their hands about the "trauma" of it all. I keep hearing that word, trauma. Fourth graders watching a fire drill, that's something. Grown adults learning that law enforcement did its job in a grocery store? That's a Tuesday. When I taught school for 34 years, we taught children that police officers are the good guys. We never taught them to treat it like a tragedy when the law got enforced.

And I'll say what I always say about these fine men and women doing this work: they don't know what they're walking into. Every one of these arrests could go sideways in a second. They suit up, they go in, they do the job, and then they get lectured about it by people who've never once had to enforce so much as a library fine. I don't care if it's a house, a courthouse, or the cereal aisle at H-E-B. Do the job. Come home safe.

The debate online will burn hot for about four days and then everybody moves on to the next thing. That's how this works now. But the man was arrested, he's in custody, and enforcement happened. That's the part that counts, and no amount of hand-wringing changes it.

I did my grocery run this morning, same as always. Nobody arrested anybody. Nobody cried. We all just bought our bread and went home. That's what a normal country looks like, and it's the one most of us, legal immigrants included, are perfectly happy to live in.

Anyway, that's my two cents, and I've got a casserole in the oven. Talk soon, folks.