Content warning: the linked article contains video and descriptions of violent ICE arrests
ProPublica recently published a piece outlining the growing trend of violent immigration-related arrests involving masked agents, who consistently refuse to identify themselves, smashing vehicle windows and dragging people into the street to arrest them.
Footage from L.A., Baltimore, Massachusetts, and elsewhere shows agents using weapons to break car windows and violently dragging people out of their cars. More than one situation involves children, infants, or pregnant people. The agents don’t seem to care; no person’s vulnerability mitigates the alleged government agents’ willingness to threaten or commit violence.
No person deserves such treatment, regardless of status or any other factor. ICE agents seem to disagree: some of these violent incidents involve damaging the vehicles of American citizens and arresting or detaining them, in spite of the fact that ICE has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. This should alarm all of us.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)