Federal law enforcement agents detain a demonstrator during a raid in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 13, 2026. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Just a year into his second term, Donald Trump’s new, militarized immigration force is on full display.

Agents in masks and plate carriers are seemingly everywhere, first in Chicago last year and now in Minneapolis, where they have killed two US citizens and terrorized uncounted more.

Some of that is because of a change in how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does its work; as my colleague Christian Paz has reported, under the second Trump administration, the agency has shifted from conducting relatively few direct arrests to trying to arrest as many people as possible, as fast as possible.

And some of it is due to the fact that there are simply many more agents now: The Trump administration has prioritized hiring for both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which includes........

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