Trump’s showy immigration enforcement leads to violent confrontations
The administration is preparing to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to hire more immigration officers and intensify its operations, raising concerns such violence could grow in the coming year. Several current and former ICE officers, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak openly about sensitive matters, expressed concerns that ICE could bring on less-qualified candidates with its accelerated hiring push.
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Trump’s showy immigration enforcement leads to violent confrontationsTed Hesson, Kristina Cooke8-10 minutes 1/10/2026
Summary
ICE tactics shift to bold sweeps, sparking public backlash
Concerns mount over ICE hiring practices and reduced training
Supreme Court allows broad immigration stops, increasing tensions
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and U.S. citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week.
Under Trump’s orders to ramp up deportations, masked immigration officers have surged into Democratic-led cities, sprayed tear gas in residential streets,
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and pointed guns at bystanders trying to film them.
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A federal officer in Minneapolis dragged a woman through a snowy street in an incident last month that the city’s police chief called an “egregious disregard for human dignity.”
These contentious encounters, which have come amid a push to quickly recruit and train thousands of new officers, have stemmed from a dramatic shift in the approach to immigration enforcement, according to current and former immigration officials.
The White House demanded a steep increase in immigration arrests in late May, leading officers to change tactics, embracing showy sweeps over more …
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"Its not going to go well."
MAGAs dont care whether or not it goes well. That is the problem.
A lot of Americans can speak Spanish. Many are not even immigrants, legal or otherwise.
For starters-- many people speaking Spanish have not broken any immigration laws -- because they are not even immigrants! (Many speak Spanish because they were required to take a language course in high school or college and they chose Spanish!)
The Supreme Court in September said the Trump administration could stop people in U.S. cities for reasonable suspicion of violating immigration laws based on factors such as having brown skin or speaking Spanish,
That's a lot of people!
How many people in the U.S. have brown skin? (And of course there are different shades of brown!!!)
The citizen's militia has been fighting tyranny since 1775. (Yes, that's before there was a Marine Corps.) There wouldn't be a United States without the citizen's militia.
Why do you want foreign criminals in America? How many thousands of needless American deaths do they have to cause before you say the extra congressional seats aren’t worth it?
Is there something about that statement you do not understand? Do you think all this is going well ?
No John, If you have you your way and illegal migrants can't be arrested because they get upset you end up with no-go zones where police do not go without permission of local crime lords. It's happened in Europe. Amazing that with that disastrous example you want to do to the same here.
Veto powers for foreign criminals over law enforcement. That'll end well.
What they are doing now is not working. They should go back to the drawing board. Of course that wont happen because psychopaths like Bovino want to terrify the population.
Based on the complete non-answer to your valid question, one must assume an unlimited amount of American deaths are worth extra congressional seats.
Invading American neighborhoods is ridiculous.
The ambulance was unable to get through because of the ICE vehicles when they shot someone.
What about all the Americans who live there and may need ambulance service?
Now Americans have to fear for their own safety not from criminals or immigrants, but from an ICE invasion blocking neighborhood streets!!!
They are not putting America First, they are not following federal, state or local laws, and they are not making us safer.
End it.