ICE agents have been engaging in aggressive enforcement actions with little accountability, using tactics such as seizing people off the street, breaking into vehicles, and using tear gas and pepper spray against nonviolent protesters, while Supreme Court decisions have limited the ability of individuals to sue for damages and provided little recourse for those harmed by ICE.
Legal scholars are pushing back against Trump administration officials’ mischaracterizations of federal immunity and the First Amendment, according to a Cato Institute analysis.
In Chicago, federal agents used excessive force and intimidation tactics to carry out “Operation Midway Blitz”, causing fear and distrust in the community and eroding trust in law enforcement.
Charlie Kirk was murdered, Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air, ICE Agents in masks grabbed children off the street, President Trump publicly demanded his AG prosecute political foes, and anti-trans activist Beth Bourne stripped down to her bathing suit at a school board meeting, all in the midst of a potential existential crisis in the country.
ICE agents have been seen in Northern California immigration courts, asking people for their names and identification, and potentially coordinating with agents outside to arrest individuals, which has resulted in one arrest and a decrease in courtroom attendance.
Veteran Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly attempting to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest, after ICE agents presented an administrative warrant to her courtroom.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan was arrested on federal criminal charges for allegedly obstructing federal immigration agents by helping a defendant avoid arrest in her courtroom.
The Trump administration has detained Rümeysa Öztürk, a Fulbright scholar and Ph.D. student at Tufts University, for speaking out against Israel and Palestine policies, violating her First Amendment rights and causing her harm.