A Dangerous Distraction

A Dangerous Distraction For many critics of the Trump administration’s ever more violent and indiscriminate campaign of mass deportation, one of its most disturbing features has been the increased penchant of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for hiding their faces during raids. Some have maintained that the proliferation of balaclava-clad ICE agents, who call to mind the “secret police” of totalitarian states, is yet another warning sign that the United States is descending ...