"They're not wrong to ask. In the 10 months of President Donald Trump's administration running roughshod over the Constitution and federal law, nothing has been more upsetting to our collective understanding of how America works than masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers roaming the streets and grabbing people on suspicion that they are undocumented. Operating without warrants or identification and prepared to arrest bystanders whom they deem to be interfering, ICE personnel have brought into reality a scenario that until now would have been dismissed as fantasy or at least as something that could never happen here."
"Standard ICE procedures aren't just frightening people of Latino origin or people who look as if they might be Latino. They are terrifying many of us, including women in particular, who wonder what they are supposed to do if armed men in an SUV were to abduct them at gunpoint in broad daylight. Even the FBI has recognized the potential for problems, issuing an alert to state and federal law enforcement agencies that warned criminals impersonating ICE agents had committed kidnappings and sexual assaults, according to Wired."
Masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have roamed streets and grabbed people on suspicion of being undocumented, often operating without warrants or identification and ready to arrest bystanders deemed to interfere. Standard ICE procedures have terrified Latino communities and many others, particularly women, who fear abduction or assault. The FBI issued alerts warning that criminals impersonating ICE agents had committed kidnappings and sexual assaults. Legal challenges have confronted the Supreme Court's willingness to permit racialized targeting and emergency detentions. The situation exposes systemic failures across legal, judicial, and enforcement institutions in protecting constitutional and civil liberties.
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