Opinion: ICE’s negative health effects aren’t limited to detainment centers |
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A month ago, I got into an Uber with a Cuban driver. She pronounced my name right, which we bonded over, and started chatting. She told me that earlier, she’d picked up a young construction worker who’d gotten into her car cautiously and immediately begun to cry.
With a heavy heart, he told the driver he’d come home from work to find that his wife and baby had been taken by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He didn’t know where they’d gone or how to get in contact with them without risking being detained himself.
Since January 2025, ICE has conducted an unprecedented number of workplace and community raids. President Donald Trump’s administration has increased the number of at-large arrests by 600%. These large-scale arrests target minority communities, especially in blue-collar industries where immigrants stereotypically work, like construction and landscaping developments.
White nationalism guides ICE like a north star as it pursues its insidious goal of the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history, targeting 15 to 20 million people. While this kind of ethnic purging is nothing new, the mass surveillance........