'ICE Is Everywhere': Investigation Reveals More Arrests Than Ever, With Quieter Tactics
ICE is using quieter arrests at workplaces, airports and traffic stops as nearly 50,000 people were apprehended in July, a record high, The Guardian reported.
- According to a report by The Guardian, ICE has shifted to quiet, low-profile enforcement tactics, yet the agency apprehended nearly 50,000 people in July, marking a record high.
- Following fatal encounters and public opposition, President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sought what they described as a "softer touch" to reduce media scrutiny.
- To support these operations, Congress provided the Department of Homeland Security with $75 billion in additional funding, enabling the agency to double its workforce to over 22,000 officers and staff.
- Attorneys Gracie Willis and Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch describe this as the "invisibilising" of enforcement, citing concerns that quiet tactics make it harder to protect vulnerable individuals from racial profiling.
- Some Republicans are criticizing the administration's heavy-handed enforcement, while the government prepares to revoke visas for up to 200,000 foreigners in the coming weeks, widening detention scope.
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Agents of the controversial U.S. Immigration and Customs Service make headlines less often in the U.S., but continue to actively track migrants to meet the demands of President Donald Trump's administration.
After the storm of criticism against the immigration police ICE, the agency was instructed to act according to a “softer line.” The headlines have since become fewer – while the number of arrests is skyrocketing.
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Investigation Reveals More Arrests Than Ever, With Quieter Tactics
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams “The detentions are happening in a flash—we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” said one immigration attorney. The Trump administration may have deliberately toned down its highly visible, militarized immigration raids that generated widespread backlash, but US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is arresting more people than ever, […]
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