Who cares if you respect anyone? Are you sure you are an American?
ICE is morphing into Trump’s secret police force before our eyes
The agency is shunning norms of law enforcement and becoming a militarized wing of Trump's political agenda — and it's going to get worse.Masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using extraordinary violence to detain residents. They are pepper-spraying and smashing the car windows of observers and activists, and tear-gassing street intersections. They are patrolling streets with rifles. Schools have shuttered because of safety concerns. And after an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old mother, tensions with residents have only increased.
Something sinister is emerging. ICE isn’t behaving like a normal arm of federal law enforcement. Instead, it’s increasingly acting like a secret police force or paramilitary on behalf of President Donald Trump as it uses surveillance and violence to enact a political agenda of domination. Unfortunately, there are reasons to believe things will only get worse.
Put the reduction in training, the apparent poor screening, and the decreased oversight together, and you get what appears to be a more ragtag force that’s less likely to comply with policing protocols and the law and more likely to improvise based on instinct and fear. Indeed, there is evidence that ICE agents are consistently disregarding the most basic practices of policing and are using banned chokeholds and recklessly boxing in vehicles, among other things.
Second, as the Trump administration is deprofessionalizing ICE, it’s also politicizing the agency.
The Trump administration also constantly pushes out white nationalist propaganda in its communications with the public, implying that ICE agents are at the forefront of an operation to reshape American culture. A few days after an ICE agent killed Good, Trump’s Department of Labor posted on X, “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”
That's straight out of the Nazi book.
Third, the Trump administration also appears to be giving ICE officers carte blanche to use force and protecting it from legal accountability.
ICE is transforming before our eyes into a secret police force. Its officers largely operate with their faces covered, making it impossible for the public to link individual officers with specific acts of abuse. The agency’s work is increasingly political and unprofessional, and the administration encourages it to see the law as an inconvenience instead of a hard line. One wonders how far Trump will allow ICE to go in its ostensible mission of enhancing immigration enforcement. But it’s already clear that it has no problem with creating a shadowy security force that does the administration’s bidding, to the great harm of the American public.
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