Alex Ossola

Residents have been pushing back and it's turned the city into a tinderbox.

Now, as immigration officers deploy elsewhere in the country, we're honing in on ICE to understand the changing landscape of what agents are allowed to do and potential challenges to that authority.

Earlier this month, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency sent more than 2,000 people to Minneapolis.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, immigration agents have arrested 3,000 people with alleged criminal histories who they say were in the U.S.

illegally since mid-December, calling the effort, quote, a huge victory for public safety.

However, ICE's increased presence and the shooting of Rene Good by an ICE officer earlier this month have sparked protests in the city and across the country, adding to clashes between locals and immigration agents that have swept through U.S.

cities over the past year.

So it had me wondering, what is ICE actually supposed to do?

And how has that changed during President Trump's second term?

I discuss these and more questions with Michelle Hackman, who covers immigration policy for The Journal.

Michelle, it feels like ICE has been around for a long time, but actually the modern iteration of the agency was only created in the early 2000s.

How did it come to be and what was its founding mandate?

And how does ICE differ from other border security, for example?

Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the tactics because that's something that really has come into focus a lot since President Trump started his second term.

But I'm curious what kind of training ICE agents receive.

It seems like some of that training is evolving based on what agents are allowed to or expected to do.

How have we seen that play out?

One of the things that's come up over the past year or so, especially in some of these legal challenges of ICE's actions, is this concept of reasonable suspicion.

What is that and how is that kind of shifting?

I understand that there's a pretty changing standard around whether ICE is allowed to enter your home without a warrant.