...Last month, the New York City-based Immigrant Defense Project, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, published an expansive report detailing patterns and practices of ICE raids revealed through years of litigation and freedom of information requests. Described as a “toolkit” intended to “help advocates prepare for fighting back against ICE raids under a Trump administration,” the more than 200-page document traces the bipartisan history of ICE’s controversial operations, revealing who ICE agents have historically targeted, how they find their targets, and the tactics agents use to make arrests, including the agency’s well-documented reliance on deception, surveillance, and physical force. ...

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