Garrison Davis

Since Trump took office again, there have been a few reported instances of U.S.-born citizens being deported.

These are citizen children who are deported with immigrant parents to avoid child separation.

Though many, many children do end up being separated from their parents when their parents are deported.

The last argument that people fall back on is simply that ICE is a completely lawless agency and it can do whatever it wants, including going after trans people.

After all, ICE has murdered U.S.

citizens on camera in broad daylight.

But it's important to remember, that happened for a reason.

Those weren't random acts.

ICE and CBP murdered people protesting ICE raids targeting their immigrant neighbors.

Federal agents killed people because the protesting was an inconvenience.

And there was use of force policy and training directing them to do so.

For decades, CBP agents have killed people at the border and gotten away with it.

The Trump administration may not care about the law, but this analysis is not based on any assumptions about legality.

It's based on the administration's own stated goals, which they've been very open about, and the policies and practices currently in effect, none of which relate to ICE targeting people for quote-unquote looking trans.

From what we know, the Kavanaugh Stops framework have never been used to target trans people for being trans as the reasonable suspicion of being illegally in the country.

And there's been no change in guidelines saying that being trans can be the basis for said stops.

Asserting otherwise is simply false.

Insisting that because of State Department application policy, ICE will now randomly arrest trans people is conflating two very different things.

This isn't about the potential legality of ICE targeting trans people.

I'm simply saying there is no such directive instructing ICE to do that.