Trump Is Building a Shadowy, Federal Police Force

Trump Is Building a Shadowy, Federal Police Force

ProPublica: “Current and former national security officials describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

By J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Reporting Highlights Aggression: Under President Donald Trump’s deportation mission, ICE officers are using force to detain and jail immigrants. Impunity: The administration gutted guardrails and offices meant to rein in abusive actions. Disappeared: Some famili…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.