When ICE Raids Homes
For years, immigration agents targeted people at businesses, but in recent years, knocking on the doors of houses and apartments has become more common.
“You should be uncomfortable. You should look over your shoulder,” Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said during a hearing before Congress in June 2017. “You need to be worried. No population is off the table.” The administration was making it clear that its crackdown on undocumented immigrants was coming. A knock on the door could mean deportation. For the past two and a half years, during Trump’s presidency, many immigrant families have been living in an atmosphere of fear and tension.
That was the feeling going into last weekend, when the news spread that the Trump administration was once again planning
