There’s little doubt that ICE is growing more aggressive, its actions more extreme. With orders from the White House to meet quotas on detentions and deportations, its raids are becoming more frequent, more brutal and more indiscriminate.
We need to talk about where things stand and, importantly, where they are headed.
For months, especially across Southern California, ICE agents have been seizing allegedly undocumented immigrants from their places of work, from their homes, from retail stores, and off the streets. They have often been holding detainees in makeshift detention centers that are overcrowded and lack adequate facilities, depriving those held of access to the outside and to counsel.
ICE has been conducting these detentions while both heavily armed and masked, purportedly to prevent later identification and doxxing of the agents involved. The anonymity of ICE officers, together with their frequently documented physical brutality, has led to chaos and terror in immigrant communities and an utter lack of accountability for the agency.
Read the full story.
This story is from The Big Picture, a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today. Sign up to receive it in your inbox directly every week.
